- Western Australia chosen to host World Journey & Tourism
Council International Summit in October 2024 - International leaders to attend and talk about journey, commerce and tourism over
multi-day summit in Perth - Earlier attendees embrace former USA President Barack Obama and
French President Emmanuel Macron - Supported by the Western Australian Authorities, Enterprise Occasions
Perth, and Enterprise Occasions Australia
International leaders from among the world’s
greatest corporations will come collectively to debate tourism and commerce after Western
Australia was chosen to host the distinguished World Journey & Tourism
Council (WTTC) International Summit subsequent 12 months.
WTTC is the worldwide authority on tourism and
its members embrace over 200 CEOs, Chairpersons, and Presidents of corporations
equivalent to Emirates, Etihad Airways, Hilton Group, Visa, and Expedia.
The annual WTTC summit will happen in
October 2024, and highlight WA as an rising international chief in journey, tourism
and commerce.
Earlier attendees embrace former USA
President Barack Obama, French President Emmanuel Macron, earlier United
Nations Secretary Normal Ban Ki-moon, and world-famous environmental activist
and adventurer Bear Grylls (OBE).
It is the primary time the occasion has been held in
Australia, with earlier host nations together with Spain, China, Japan, the
United States, Argentina, and Thailand.
The Summit was secured for the State via a
profitable bid by the WA Authorities, in partnership with Enterprise Occasions Perth,
and Enterprise Occasions Australia.
The invitation-only occasion will see world
leaders meet with WA decision-makers to debate the financial, social and
environmental points at the moment affecting tourism, commerce and journey worldwide,
and to discover new funding alternatives in our State.
Enterprise occasions kind an vital a part of the
WA Authorities’s technique to develop WA’s tourism trade and additional diversify
the State’s economic system.
Giant scale conferences and conferences act as a
important financial driver with enterprise delegates sometimes spending as much as
5 instances greater than the common leisure customer.
Discover out extra concerning the summit at WTTC.org.
Feedback attributed to Tourism Minister Rita
Saffioti:
“Internet hosting the WTTC International Summit in 2024
will place Western Australia as a pacesetter amongst nations, and permit the WA
Authorities to affect the worldwide tourism and journey agenda, in addition to
elevate our State’s tourism, commerce and journey industries.
“It is going to additionally enable the world’s main
choice makers to expertise Perth and WA first-hand, whereas we display our
State’s development ambition and funding alternatives to the worldwide journey and
tourism sector, and showcase the experience of WA companies and our wider
tourism and commerce industries.
“We’re actually proud to draw enterprise
occasions of this calibre to our State and stay up for welcoming WTTC members
and attendees to Western Australia subsequent 12 months.”
Feedback attributed to Federal Minister for
Commerce and Tourism Don Farrell:
“The Australian Authorities may be very
happy to have supported the bid for Perth to host the World Journey &
Tourism Council (WTTC) Summit in 2024.
“The timing subsequent 12 months could not be higher
because the trade continues to emerge from the impacts of the worldwide pandemic and
seems to be to future alternatives for sustainable development.
“Australia’s choices for each enterprise
occasions and leisure travellers are distinctive and internet hosting this occasion shall be a
terrific alternative to showcase our excellent tourism credentials to the
world.”
