From 9th to 11th October Rimini Fiera hosts TTG Incontri, the most important b2b international trade fair in Tourism and TTI - Travel Trade Italia, the workshop promoting the Italian tourism product in the world. At the same time, the International Hospitality Exhibition SIA Guest will be back at Rimini Expo Centre from 9 to 12 October 2014, so that the entire tourism supply chain will be reunited in a single context.

The TTG Incontri is the most important showcase of tourism trends in our country, that will enable sector professionals to discover in advance the international novelties and the trends for the upcoming years. TTG Incontri is an unmissable event for all professionals in the sector, to understand market performance, present what’s new in the market, foresee trends and learn about how the sector is developing. TTI - Travel Trade Italia will be held alongside the TTG Incontri in order to stimulate in-depth analysis and outline future scenarios in the tourism industry with top-level meetings. Over three days of trading, national and international buyers contact Italian tourism companies to devise and plan the marketing of Italy as a product in the world market focusing on new trends, offers and products, in order to find new partners and to sign agreements.

TTG Incontri is an international Exhibition with about 130 destinations represented, most of whom choose the meeting as the unique event for promotion in the Italian market, and 1000 buyers from around 60 countries, with a high concentration of operators from the Mediterranean area, India, USA and Brazil.

For the second consecutive year TTG Incontri presents TBD-Italy,Travel Blogger Destination Italy, the largest event in Italy dedicated to worldwide bloggers. The events aim to present the main tourist sites and local peculiarities to the bloggers, who will share the information on web through digital travel notes.

Second appointment at the expo also for the WTM Vision Conference, an international conference organized by the WTM in London in collaboration with TTG Italy, giving a preview of the tourism data in the world.

At the same time, Ibe takes place, the International Bus Expo: it is the only marketplace in the bus sector in Italy, organized by TTG Italy (Rimini Fiera Group).

TTG Next is instead a 600 sq. meter area in the heart of the exhibition, dedicated to tourism Start-ups. The area includes free exhibition spaces and a speakers’ corner for the presentation of projects and for meetings with experts, where the opportunities for development for start up companies on the one hand and the opportunities for investment in start-ups by tourism companies on the other can be discussed. 

New entry is also TTG Off, three 'outside evenings' with music, wine and food outside the Expo centre. In addition, on Sunday 12th October, Rimini Revolution Run will be proposed to all professionals in the field of tourism. It is an entertaining marathon run to discover the treasures in Rimini.

The opening ceremony of the TTG Incontri will be attended by the Italian Minister of Heritage and Cultural Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini.

In 2014 the International Hospitality Exhibition, Sia Guest, will join the TTG Incontri meeting in order to develop business in the name of new synergies and new international relations.
The expo Sia Guest will last from Thursday 9th to Sunday 12th October 2014, and is a trade fair dedicated to the hotel sector and to the hospitality topics.

The show layout will provide exposure to specific theme areas: Hotellerie, Furniture and Contract, Bathroom and Wellness, Technology and Services. There are also other spaces such as SIA Trend with installations by architects and designers, such as the Flying Room, a project made in Italy, and SIA Green with eco-sustainable solutions in energy saving and efficiency in accommodation facilities. In the program there are also open days of "I love my Wellness" linked to the SPA hotels and the exhibition "Green SPA Villas".

As usual the show presentation will be completed by a packed and qualified calendar of meetings, workshops and competitions to update and discuss topics of current importance, organized in conjunction with trade associations, magazines and experts.


Being staged at the same time, the SIA Guest and the TTG Incontri will provide the hotel world and the travel distribution universe with new networking, discussion and above all business opportunities, allowing the entire tourism supply chain to be reunited in a single context.


The exhibitions are open to traders in the sector
Info:  http://www.ttgincontri.it/en-en  http://en.siarimini.it/index.asp