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The 9th Travel Trade Athens 2023, the leading annual professional event of the municipality of Athens aiming at the dynamic promotion of Athens in the global tourism market, returns on 24 & 25 April 2023.

The organization-institution of the Greek tourism industry is implemented by the development and Tourism Promotion Company of the municipality of Athens (eata), through the conference and Visitors Bureau (This is Athens-Convention & Visitors Bureau), in cooperation with the European Tourism association (ETOA).

Each year, Travel Trade Athens brings Athens to the center of interest of the European and international professional tourism market for both industry professionals and the media sector.

The event is a main meeting point for Greek and foreign tourism professionals. Since its launch in 2013, Travel Trade Athens has welcomed more than 600 hosted buyers from 35 countries around the world and has hosted more than 18,000 B2B meetings. The 9th Travel Trade Athens 2023 will host in Athens 70 representatives of travel agencies and businesses, conference and event organizers and distinguished industry journalists, mainly from Europe, the UK, the USA and the Middle East.

The municipality of Athens supports through eata the conference tourism and its multiple benefits for local development as it is addressed to a high quality and income audience, whose footprint in the local economy far excels this leisure visitor. The successful management and promotion of Athens as a MICE destination (conferences, exhibitions and meetings) through eata and the conference and Visitors Office of the city of Athens is highlighted by the upward trend of our city internationally but also by its ranking as 6th in Europe and 8th in the world as MICE destination, according to the ICCA ( International Congress and Convention Association) of 2022. For its effective effort, the conference and Visitors Office of the city of Athens (this is Athens - CVB) was awarded the title of Europe's Leading City Tourist Board for 2022 at the World Travel Awards.

Aξίζει να σημειωθεί πως τη χρονιά που μας πέρασε, το Γραφείο Συνεδρίων και Επισκεπτών του Δήμου Αθηναίων ένωσε τις δυνάμεις του με τον Σύνδεσμο Ελλήνων Επαγγελματιών Εκδηλώσεων και Οργανωτών Συνεδρίων – HAPCO & DES και το Γραφείο Προσέλκυσης Συνεδρίων και Επισκεπτών Θεσσαλονίκης (TCB), δημιουργώντας την σύμπραξη «Greek Meetings Alliance» (GMA). Το σύμφωνο συνεργασίας φιλοδοξεί να θέσει το πλαίσιο προς την κατεύθυνση της ανάπτυξης του συνεδριακού τουρισμού και να δρομολογήσει δράσεις για τη διεθνή προώθηση της χώρας μας, ως κορυφαίου προορισμού για τη βιομηχανία των συναντήσεων.

Registrations are ongoing until March 31, 2023.