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Centaur Media Plc Launches Business Travel Week

Week of exhibitions, conferences, awards, events and networking

9-13 February 2009, London

17 July 2008: Centaur Media Plc, supported by the Institute of Travel Management, is launching Business Travel Week. Running from 9-13 February 2009 in London, Business Travel Week will provide Europe’s vibrant corporate travel market with five days of focused, stimulating, deal-making activity.

Business Travel Week has been created following months of industry research carried out by Centaur Exhibitions and its sister businesses Centaur Conferences and YouGov Centaur. Business Travel Week has been designed to unite the European business travel industry, provide buyers and suppliers with a crucial platform to stimulate debate, push the sector into the limelight and heighten its profile throughout the rest of industry.

Incorporating a dynamic mix of exhibitions, conferences, awards and networking events, the highlight of Business Travel Week will be the well-established and highly popular Business Travel Show. Celebrating its 15th anniversary, Business Travel Show already provides a welcome spotlight for 250 travel related companies to highlight their newest products, initiatives, packages and technology to more than 7,000 business travel buyers, bookers and managers.

Centaur is inviting third party companies to host additional events, such as awards evenings, drinks parties, open house days or press events, to sit under the Business Travel Week umbrella alongside the current line up of activity, which includes:

Exhibitions

  • Business Travel Show: 10–12 February 2009
  • Business Meetings Showcase: 10–12 February 2009
  • Travel Buyer Technology Showcase: 10–12 February 2009
  • Business Travel Online Showcase: 10–12 February 2009
  • Travel Technology Show: 10–11 February 2009

Education and Training

Business Travel Show Conference: 10–12 February 2009

A three day conference for travel buyer and a two day conference for the agency community; each will include a selection of keynotes, debates, panel sessions, research, training and workshops.

Awards

  • Cellars in the Sky - The Airline Wine Awards: 10 February 2009 (Daytime)
  • The Business Travel Innovation Awards: 11 February 2009 (Daytime)
  • The European Travel Manager Awards: 12 February 2009 (Evening)

Networking Events

  • The Business Travel Show Exhibitor Event: 10 February 2009
  • The Business Travel Week VIP Buyer liarty: 11 February 2009
  • The ITM Lunch keynote speaker: 11 February 2009
  • The European Travel Managers’ lunch with keynote slieaker: 12 February 2009

“Business Travel Week will provide the European business travel professional with much more than one show ever can and that’s why Centaur is committed to investing in and developing the week over the next one, two, ten years,” said event director David Chapple.

“Our destination goal is to create a high profile, annual focal point in the industry calendar when professionals can enjoy a concentrated burst of networking, learning, sharing and deal-making, much in the same way as London Fashion Week works for the fashion industry.

“We have chosen to stage the week in London because the city has always been a major centre for the business travel industry with many of the airlines, hotel groups and TMCs located here. For that reason, we truly believe it provides the perfect grounding for pan-European celebratory activity.”

Paul Tilstone, executive director, Institute of Travel Management, said: “I love the idea of a business travel week, encouraging businesses to focus on a wide variety of business travel and meetings issues across a number of activities. Such an approach has worked well in other industries. With the Business Travel Show as the core I look forward to seeing how the week will develop. "

Notes to editors:

For more information about Business Travel Week, please visit

www.business-travel-week.co.uk

For press information, please contact:

Charlotte Le Rougetel or Dean Barrett at Bastion

T: 020 7421 7600

E: Charlotte@bastion.co.uk or Dean@bastion.co.uk

To get involved: Companies who would like to be involved in Business Travel Week, whether as a participator or sponsor, should talk to David Chapple on 020 7970 6553.

About Business Travel Show:

The Business Travel Show was established 15 years ago and has since become the leading, dedicated event for suppliers of business travel products and services to showcase their latest offerings to buyers in the market. www.businesstravelshow.com