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ITB Berlin and IPK International: International tourism in 2022 made a significant recovery | Outbound travel almost doubled in 2022

In 2022 the travel industry experienced a significant recovery. Worldwide, outbound trips increased substantially year on year, but without regaining 2019 levels. Variations were evident with regard to individual continents, destinations and travel markets. Whereas outbound travel in Asia lagged far behind pre-pandemic levels, international trips of Europeans and Americans were much closer to 2019 […]

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ITB Career Center: Springboard for a tourism industry career

From 7 to 9 March the World’s Leading Travel Trade Show is bringing job seekers and tourism industry HR managers together at the ITB Career Center – Job seekers can take advantage of free individual career advice and have their application forms checked – Experts will share knowledge and offer tips for planning careers Be […]

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ITB trade fair canceled due to coronavirus

Developments surrounding the coronavirus pandemic prevent making reliable plans for a large in-person event – ITB Berlin is focusing on a livestreamed convention and Digital Business Day in March 2022 as well as in-person ITB Berlin satellite events during 2022 – Resilience, digitisation and sustainability are key themes – Single website itb.com as an entry […]

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High demand from International Travel Exhibitors and Sponsors sets tone for ITB Asia 2021 Virtual

The countdown to ITB Asia Virtual 2021 has begun. The show, which takes place from 25 – 29 October 2021 virtually, is seeing a high demand from tourism organisations and partners. As the tourism industry shows promising signs of recovery, the event sees increasing uptake of travel trade buyer registrations, as more trade professionals are […]

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ITB Virtual Convention addresses changes in global travel demand in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic

Virtual sessions featuring experts from Statista, the German Business Travel Association (VDR) and Destination Capacity – 15 September 2020 from 2 to 4 p.m. CET – includes networking options for users of the ITB Travel Network Travellers around the world are facing huge change and new conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 15 September […]

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ITB Virtual Convention: Three-part session series at ITB.com focuses on the hotel industry and current crisis

The hospitality industry is facing turbulent times: On 11 August (2 – 4 p.m. CET) ITB Berlin will launch its next round of online sessions as part of the virtual ITB Berlin Convention. Under the heading ’ITB Virtual Convention Hospitality Update – Trends & Cases’, the three sessions and interviews on the global platform itb.com […]

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Russia is the Convention & Culture Partner of ITB Berlin 2020

The world’s largest country is the Convention & Culture Partner of the World’s Largest Travel Trade Show. Russia is presenting itself as a fascinating destination for culturally interested visitors. ”We are delighted to have secured Russia as the Convention & Culture Partner of ITB. Russia has a very high standing in the international tourism industry. […]

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HOME OF LUXURY by ITB – A new way to experience luxury

The luxury market is reporting strong growth: according to a recent survey by Statista, luxury travel currently accounts for 14 per cent of tourism sales worldwide, equivalent to 750 billion euros this year. With its new HOME OF LUXURY by ITB at the Marshall Haus of Messe Berlin, and in partnership with loop and Luxury […]

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ITB Berlin 2019: International travel outperforming economic growth

In 2018, the number of outbound trips increased by 5.5 per cent, resulting in 1.4 billion international trips. Hence, once again tourism is a key growth driver of the global economy, which “only” grew by 3.7 per cent in comparison. Growth is coming from all regions worldwide, also from the mature markets Europe and North […]

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ITB creates a new platform for Virtual and Augmented Reality

Virtual Reality instead of a travel brochure: with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) visitors can get an almost lifelike impression of local surroundings before they actually go on holiday. VR goggles With VR goggles they can take a virtual tour of a hotel room, enjoy 360-degree views walking around New York, or go […]

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