Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital of Tanzania and the second largest city in East Africa has a vibrant outbound travel market both for leisure travel and business.
African & Indian Ocean hotel groups, airlines, tourism organisations, beach resorts and safari lodges are invited to participate in this live face-to-face TravelExpo on 21 September at Serena Hotel Dar es Salaam.
The focus of TravelExpo is to promote domestic tourism as well as inter-regional tourism to African countries and overseas destinations.
Dar es Salaam is served by many regional & international airlines including Air Tanzania, Airlink, Turkish Airlines, Qatar, Emirates, Fly Dubai, Uganda Airlines, Kenya Airways, Rwandair, KLM, Ethiopian Airlines, Egypt Air, Oman Air with other airlines looking at the potential to fly into DAR.
The Dar es Salaam expatriate & diplomatic communities represent a major market for leisure and business travel. Dar es Salaam-based inbound tour operators, travel agents, NGO’s and Corporates will be invited. We expect 80-100 trade and corporates to attend.
Who should exhibit
• Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam hotels & resorts,
• Tanzanian and Kenyan safari lodges,
• African hotels seeking corporate business from Dar es Salaam,
• African beach resorts & lodges wanting to engage with travel agents & inbound tour operators in Dar es Salaam,
• hotels, DMC’s, and tourism boards wanting to promote outbound tourism from Tanzania to the rest of Africa & overseas destinations,
• car rental companies,
• airlines,
• other tourism suppliers.
Who will attend the Travel Expo?
Dar es Salaam-based:
• corporate and leisure travel agents,
• inbound tour operators,
• conference organisers,
• corporate travel planners from major corporate accounts,
• government departments,
• NGO’s,
• Embassies and UN Agencies
We expect 80-100 attendees.
How the Travel Expo attendance is promoted
• The Spotlight Travel Expo is extensively advertised to the Travel Trade in Tanzania through e-mail broadcasts and social media.
• Karibu Kilifair and Dar Life promote attendance at Spotlight DAR via their databases and social media.
• We also encourage travel agents to invite their corporate accounts to attend the TravelExpo with them.
• Our hotel and airline partners distribute invitations to their key corporate accounts and conference organisers.
• TASOTA distributes the invitations to their members and other trade-in DAR, handles the registrations and chases up the replies.
Programme: Thursday, 21 September: Serena Hotel DAR
• 13h00: Exhibitors set up their tables in Kivukoni Ballroom
• 14h30: Registration, tea and coffee
• 15h00 – 19h00: Spotlight Travel Expo
• 19h00 – 20h00: Drinks and snacks
Accommodation
• Serena Hotel Dar es Salaam are offering exhibitors a special rate of USD181.50: B&B single or USD208: B&B twin occupancy. Email: dshreservations@serena.co.tz – Reference: Spotlight
• Onomo Hotel are offering a rate of USD90.00 single and USD107 double, per room. Email: reservations.daressalaam@onomohotel.com, ref: spotlightdar
• Johari Rotana are offering a rate of USD160.00 single B&B and USD180.00: B&B. Email: Claire.Mitchell@rotana.com
Table Cost
USD650 per table/ZAR11,500 plus VAT for South African companies.
Includes:
• All TravelExpo expenses and promotional costs
• Cocktail party
• 60-word description and logo on the exhibitor website and in the official directory distributed to all attendees
• Full contact list of all attendees will be sent to exhibitors after the TravelExpo.
• One representative per table. Additional representatives will be charged USD50/ZAR900 per person to cover catering expenses. Sponsorships & Advertising Opportunities
• Full-page advert in the exhibitor directory: USD150
• Afternoon coffee and tea, plus video on the big screen: USD250
• GOLD Sponsor: Cocktail drinks sponsorship including an advert in the directory & video on the big screen: USD1,500.
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