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Expedia Partner Services Group (PSG), the central point of contact for travel suppliers to access the global Expedia marketplace of leading travel brands, will hold a Supplier Summit in Limassol, Cyprus on September 8th at 20:00hs. Supplier Summits are a way to show Expedia’s loyalty to its travel industry partners. The most important hotelier players and Expedia representatives will meet in this Summit to analyze the sector results and to talk about how the industry performance could be in 2010, based on the current forecasts and data available.
“Supplier Summits are a great get-together opportunity” said Diego Lofeudo, Regional Director of the Market Management for Expedia in Eastern Mediterranean and Africa. “Expedia continuously invests in partner – facing tools and activities. These Summits are a great example of our commitment to the hotel industry”.
Around 120 suppliers of the tourist industry among them hotels, airline airlines, car-rentals, Tourism Boards are invited by Expedia to participate in the Supplier Summit organized at the Amathus Beach Hotel Limassol. This is the first of the 19 events that will be taking place in the forthcoming months in the following countries: South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Malta, Cyprus, Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya and Tanzania.
In these meetings very relevant industry topics will be discussed and the main purpose of them is to examine the industry performance vs. last year, talk about what Expedia expects in terms of results for the year ahead, make a summary of the main highlights of the year in course such as new developments, products launches, results analysis, and give an award to the seven best hotels of each market.
Among those highlights, Expedia will explain the www.expediapartnercentral.com launching, which is the one stop service point to facilitate the hoteliers its work management with Expedia, as well as the Media Solutions, a marketing program for the hotels that allows them to do advertising in Expedia in order to increase its sales, or the launching of new sale points of Expedia and hotels.com during 2009.
Expedia, in the eagerness to find new ways that could help to improve the results of the industry, after the drop of tourists as a result of the international crisis, has decided to set up these meetings known as Supplier Summits, showing once again its commitment with its partners.
Theodore is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of TravelDailyNews Media Network; his responsibilities include business development and planning for TravelDailyNews long-term opportunities.
