{"id":2377,"date":"2014-11-13T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2014\/11\/13\/25088492033171\/"},"modified":"2014-11-13T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:29:00","slug":"25088492033171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=2377","title":{"rendered":"WTM visitor numbers \u2018up 4%\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">World Travel Market (WTM) has reported a 4% increase in attendees across the four days this year, reaching almost 52,000&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">delegates.&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Unaudited fi gures from the fi rst three days of the event showed a 7% rise but new numbers released&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">show a 4% increase across the entire event, with the overall visits reaching 98, 426. Unique delegate numbers are 51, 965.&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Monday saw visitor numbers go up 9% to almost 9, 692 while Tuesday was the busiest day up 8% to 19, 706. Wednesday saw a 6% boost to 15, 017 while Thursday&rsquo;s were similar to the fourth day last year<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">WTM Buyers&rsquo; Club delegates were up 7% to 9, 116 while the number of trade, international media and exhibitor personnel were up 6%, 2% and 2% respectively.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>&ldquo;I am absolutely delighted with the delegate attendance at WTM 2014, which is a record for a trade-only WTM. These figures demonstrate the power and importance of WTM to the industry and the role it plays in facilitating business for the sector,&rdquo; said Simon Press, senior director at WTM. &ldquo;World Travel Market 2013 generated &pound;2.2 billion in travel industry contracts between exhibitors and senior buyers from the WTM Buyers&rsquo; Club, with WTM 2014 looking set to be responsible for around &pound;2.5 billion.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The figures will be audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) in the new year.<\/p>\n<p> <strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Travel Market (WTM) has reported a 4% increase in attendees across the four days this year, reaching almost 52,000&nbsp; delegates.&nbsp; Unaudited fi gures from the fi rst three days of the event showed a 7% rise but new numbers released&nbsp; show a 4% increase across the entire event, with the overall visits reaching 98, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category---tourist-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}