Travel agents across the world are coming over for the Philippine Travel Exchange being organized by the Tourism Promotions Board on Aug. 29 to Sept. 5.
TPB chief operating officer Cesar Montano said foreign buyers had confirmed their participation in the one-on-one business meetings with local sellers on Aug. 30 and 31.
“The B2B [business-to-business] meetings dubbed ‘Travex’ [Travel Exchange] will enable our local sellers of travel packages to get included in the product portfolio being promoted by the foreign buyers to their outbound clients in their respective home countries,” Montano said.
“Thus, we offer post-event tours for the foreign buyers to give them experiential knowledge of why it is more fun in the Philippines, thereby enabling our tourism destinations to get promoted and marketed without our local sellers having to travel abroad,” Montano said.
Joining Travex 2017 are buyers from Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, United States, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Canada, United Kingdom, Middle East, Russia, India, and other European and Southeast Asian countries.
Scheduled on Sept. 1 to 4, the post-event tours will be in the Ilocos region, Tagaytay-Batangas, Albay-Sorsogon, Iloilo-Guimaras Bacolod, Puerto Princesa, Coron, Cebu-Bohol and Dumaguete-Siquijor-Sumilon island chains.