Adventure Travel Professional Symposium™ is the first Adventure Travel Industry event specifically focused on delivering timely market information and strategic business solutions to leverage the fastest segment in travel aned tourism - active and adventure travel.
Are you expanding your tour offerings to include active and adventure travel?
Are you seeking the best strategies to increase your country or state's share of the valuable tourism market?
Are you aware of how sustainable tourism is transforming the travel industry?
Are you seeking effective sales techniques to sell adventure travel to your customers?
Or are you looking for "What's Hot" in the active travel marketplace?
Whatever your objective, the Adventure Travel Professional Symposium (ATPRO) will deliver timely market information and strategic business solutions to help you reach your goals and grow your business!
This highly focused event will provide a forum for Senior Tourism Leaders, Tour Operators/Owners, Destination Marketing Organizations, CVBs and specialized Travel Agents to network and learn about the latest trends in active and adventure travel including market conditions, risk management, emerging destinations, sustainable tourism, integrated sales and marketing strategies, information technology and industry integration.
ATPRO is co-located with the Travel Retailing And Destination Expo, THETRADESHOW, the premier travel industry event developed by the American Society of Travel Agents and supported by the Travel Institute.
"Adventure travel continues to be a major growth area in the global tourism industry. Understanding the latest trends in adventure travel and learning how to effectively market to an expanding intergenerational audience is key to the success of travel professionals today. This will be the most important gathering of its kind for the adventure travel community in 2006."
-- Costas Christ, President of The Adventure Council and ATPRO Conference Chairman.
"Adventure Travel continues to be one of the fastest-growing segments of global tourism. Understanding the unique and rapidly changing interests and perspectives of adventurous people is critical in serving this growing market"
-- Francis Farrell, Publisher, National Geographic ADVENTURE magazine
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SEPTEMBER 8-9, 2006 -- ORANGE COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER, ORLANDO, FL
OUR DISTINGUISHED ADVENTURE COUNCIL ADVISORY BOARD
Costas Christ
ATPRO Conference Chair; President, The Adventure Council
Fran Farrell
Publisher, National Geographic ADVENTURE Magazine
Roger Dow
President, Travel Industry Association of America
Ufi Ibrahim
Chief Operations Officer,
World Travel and Tourism Council
Richard Bangs
Founder, Richard Bangs Adventures
Brian Mullis
President, Sustainable Travel International
John Golicz
Founder & CEO, Adventures in Travel Expo
Richard Edwards
Executive Director, Trusted Adventures
Yiannis Skevis
President, Aegean Adventures
Hon. John Briceno
Deputy Prime Minister, Belize
Hitesh Mehta
Director of Ecotourism, E.D.S.A.
Kathy Sudeikis
President, American Society of Travel Agents
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