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EUROAL Travel Market 2016

28 countries will convene at EUROAL Travel Market 2016

Besides new entries in travel catalogs, the event will introduce the new route over the South Pole from Chile, until now restricted exclusively to scientific missions, and the “Transandine crossing”, a trek between lakes through the Argentinian and Chilean Andes, among others.

The spanish mediterranean coast will welcome, from 2nd to 4th of june, institutional and business tourism delegations of 28 countries from Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. The 11th EUROAL Travel Market 2016 will assemble in the Palacio de Congresos de Torremolinos – Costa del Sol, Spain, 150 exhibitors and co-exhibitors, destinations and touirsm services companies, incoming agencies and touroperators, in one of the main business meetings in the annual calendar.

Combining a three fold program, promotional fair, international business meetings and professional discussion forums on the evolving aspects of tourism. EUROAL 2016 will take the beat on tourism reality, destinations competitivity, anticipating forecasts for travel demand in 2017.

EUROAL Travel Market will give both professionals and public, the opportunity to get acquainted with a full variety of destinations. From countries and cities present in the international tourism markets due to their monuments, history, culture and heritage values, to the nature and ethnical assets of the arab world, sun and beach, or even those developping new products

Besides new entries in travel catalogs, the event will introduce the new route over the South Pole from Chile, until now restricted exclusively to scientific missions, and the "Transandine crossing", a trek between lakes through the Argentinian and Chilean Andes, among others.

Nepal will feature among new countries and destinations present in Torremolinos, a country working to recover its tourism beat after the 2015 earthquake. Others also featured will be the Republic of Macedonia (southeast Europe) Vietnam, Uruguayan department of Maldonado (Punta del Este), returnig to EUROAL after 2013, the city of Puebla (Mexico) which will be distinguished as "Cultural Destination in Latin America", and the joint promotions of Poland, Hungary and Czec Republic, under the common theme "In the heart of Europe".

India, Argentina, Chili, Cameroon, Mali, Cuba, Dominican Republic, the city of Mayaguez (Puerto Rico), Ecuador, Paraguay, France, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Brazil, Colombia, Algeria, Russia, United Kingdom and Spain as host country, will also participate with institutional and business delegations, in the exhibition aspects, as in the business workshops with tour operators and travel agents in EUROAL 2016.

An agreement with the European Association of Tour Operators (ETOA) places EUROAL 2016 level to FITUR (only spanish events where it is present) as regards to the promotion levels in this professional business segments. Some twenty mice operators (meetings, incentive, congresses and exhibitions) will join for the first time the international travel touroperators registered to the workshop.

This travel market includes this year two new sections. A space dedicated to technology and innovation companies in global hotel reservations, and a cluster of companies specialised in the redesign and refurbishing of hotel buildings. On its part, IBERIA will present to the international touroperators attending the event, the scope of the routes served by the airline, with a total of 90 destinations, as well as the new airplane configurations and services available on board.

Conferences and round tables
As regards the professional program of analysis on the evolution of tourism industry and its markets, this eleventh edition will program special sessions on "Tourism Education and Companies Demands – the Role of the Professional Associations", "Sport Tourism, its influence on the deseasonalisation of tourism destinations", in cooperation with the "Asociacion Malaguena and the Federacion Adaluza de Periodistas Deportivos", "Entrepreneurship in tourism", and a session on "Hotel Education", led by Paraty Hotels, Guest Centric, Hotel Manager, Site Minder and Smartvel Travel.

Travel journalist and blogger, regular writer in the "el Viajero" suplement of "El Pais" newspaper and Cadena SER, Paco Nadal, will come to EUROAL 2016 to present a delicious selection of travel experiences.

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Vicky is the co-founder of TravelDailyNews Media Network where she is the Editor-in Chief. She is also responsible for the daily operation and the financial policy. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Tourism Business Administration from the Technical University of Athens and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wales.

She has many years of both academic and industrial experience within the travel industry. She has written/edited numerous articles in various tourism magazines.

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