Name: eMerge - the virtual travel summit
Start: 08/09/2021 08:00 AM +00:00
End: 09/09/2021 10:00 PM +00:00

ABTA LifeLine is ABTA&rsquo;s charity. ABTA is the UK&rsquo;s largest travel association representing travel agents and tour operators that sell &pound;37 billion of holidays and other travel arrangements each year.
Previously called the ABTA Benevolent Fund, set up in 1988 to help people in the travel industry when they need it the most.
Over the last 30 years we have helped over 800 families awarding grants in total in excess of &pound;1 million.

ABTA LifeLine

The ETM Group offers bespoke representation and consultancy services to Tourism Boards &amp; Organisations, airlines, DMC's and other tourism related businesses.

etm Group

Black Diamond

Flexi Reps' purpose is to match Travel Brands with Travel Talent for Travel Consultancy, GSA and Travel Reps / BDM / Account Managers for temporary field sales activity.&nbsp;
Our large database of experienced field sales managers and Travel People for Travel People can help you effectively communicate your key messages to travel retailers and homeworkers.&nbsp;
You decide the campaign and objectives, you select the team you want on the project and we help execute your plan.&nbsp;
Flexi Reps delivers in a cost effective way for your Travel Brand in the UK Travel Agent Community.

Flexi Reps

GEC TR are one of the UK's leading boutique travel and tourism consultancies specialising in travel trade marketing and public relations.
GEC's clients include Atlantic City, New Jersey Office of Tourism and Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau.

GEC TR

LOTUS is a multi-award-winning, integrated communications and trade representation agency specialising in travel and tourism.&nbsp;
The ambitious, multilingual team drive business growth for clients with agile, commercially-sound strategies and bold, bright campaigns and our client portfolio ranges from national and regional tourism boards to tour operators, OTAs, hotel groups, travel trade organisations and other travel &amp; tourism related businesses. Frances, Hollie, Sola and Georgie are looking forward to meeting you. &nbsp;Contact us through our links below.
You can also download our credentials document for 2021 below.

LOTUS

Memphis &amp; Mississippi are an American road trip with a playlist of blues, rock'n'roll, country and soul.

Memphis & Mississippi

Nova Scotia, the gateway to Atlantic Canada and only 6 hours away from the UK, is home to stunning natural beauty, diverse cultures, rich heritage, and warm, friendly people. From the Cabot Trail, one of the world&rsquo;s top scenic drives, to the Bay of Fundy, recorded to have the highest tides in the world, discover for yourself what makes our province so very unique and an emerging destination.
Meet with the UK Tourism Nova Scotia team to find out what is new for 2021 and 2022.

Tourism Nova Scotia

Travlaw is a full service, travel-niche law firm providing commercially astute advice on regulatory work, litigation, commercial, employment law and intellectual property (to name but a few) all specifically tailored to meet the needs of the travel industry.
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Travlaw Legal Services Limited

Kentucky Tourism

The name of the business is our constant and overriding tenet.&nbsp;
It is our goal to ensure that every event we develop has, at its core, &rsquo;This is a no-brainer&rsquo; to get involved with.&nbsp;
This must apply to both partners and visitors alike.&nbsp;
It can only be achieved through the creation of timely, innovative and bespoke solutions for clients and markets.

No-Brainer Events

We manage virtual events for travel companies, assisting them with reaching their audience, whether that be trade or media. This can include agent roadshows, press conferences, simple networking events or bigger formal events, such as speed-networking and awards ceremonies.
We help you promote your brand to travel media, travel agents or other travel companies, using people with many years of experience working at senior level.&nbsp;
Travel Connection Group (TCG) will help you promote your travel brand to the right audience whilst offering solutions that are innovative, effective and affordable. Howard is on hand to meet you during eMerge.&nbsp; Contact him through the link below. If you would like information on subscribing to future Social with Media events head to: &nbsp;https://www.travelconnectiongroup.com/swm-subscribe

Travel Connection Group

We are digital marketing agency who pride ourselves on always being at the forefront of the travel &amp; tourism sector. We work with all areas of digital marketing and as members of ABTA and ITT stay close to all the changes in the travel industry. We've helped many travel brands get more from their marketing investments since 2003 and would love to chat!

Adido

Effective marketing and communication starts with the value you want to deliver for your customers and what commercial success looks like. We take time to listen and understand your business and your audience to deliver clear messaging to drive revenue.&nbsp;
Haynes MarComs is a full service marcomms consultancy with over 60 years of experience within the team, set up to support travel, tourism, hospitality and technology companies with strategic marcomms, PR and digital marketing campaigns.&nbsp;
The team work closely with clients commercial goals to create messaging that secures market confidence to drives sales, lead generation and brand awareness. We focus on our clients&rsquo; target buyers and key stakeholders with the right messages and value proposition.
Haynes MarComs takes a holistic approach to PR, aligning channel strategies across SEO, social media, events and content to improve the value of results to make client&rsquo;s businesses more efficient and productive in their go-to-market strategy.&nbsp;

Haynes MarComs Ltd

At Atkin Jones, we believe in the power of efficiency. Our mission is to take the strain from you with a common sense, hands on approach.&nbsp;
Focusing on the travel, leisure and lifestyle industries, we provide immediate results as an extended part of your team. Some call us "Outsourcing Superheroes".

Atkin Jones

Sanderson Phillips has been providing expert auditing and consultancy services to some of the most respected names in the International leisure and travel industry since 1997.
Valued and trusted by our clients, we take responsibility for managing their travel safety practices, implementing robust and watertight safety and risk assessment procedures in order to meet their legal and moral obligations. With our expert knowledge, streamlined approach to auditing and ever-growing database of more than 14,000 hotels and travel suppliers across 152 countries, our clients benefit from a professional yet cost-effective method of managing travel health and safety, tailored to their specific needs.
We also provide a range of consultancy, advisory and training services including business risk management panning and travel safety training.&nbsp;

Sanderson Phillips

International non-profit, How Many Elephants, recently launched World Female Ranger Day to celebrate and support female wildlife rangers around the world.&nbsp; Also, a powerful design-led awareness campaign, the How Many Elephants travelling exhibition is innovative in its 100% non-gory and non-political approach. Imagine seeing 35,000 elephant silhouettes before you, this is the annual poaching rate in Africa. To see and connect with this data visually has proved successful in terms of engagement and impact. How Many Elephants, founded by adventurer and conservationist, Holly Budge, inspires and educates a global audience about the devastating impacts of the ivory trade and the vital work of front line female rangers. Read more at www.howmanyelephants.org and www.worldfemalerangerday.org

How Many Elephants

Commanding a prime beachfront position with stunning panoramic views over the bay of Arma&ccedil;&atilde;o de P&ecirc;ra, the Holiday Inn Algarve leads straight onto the magnificent sandy beach and offers fabulous views of the sunsets and surrounding cliffs.&nbsp;
Lying within strolling distance of shops and restaurants, this excellent base from which to explore the Algarve also enjoys regular bus services to nearby towns and villages.&nbsp;
Don&rsquo;t miss a visit to the nearby world-famous Benagil Caves.

Holiday Inn Algarve

The Latin American Travel Association (LATA) is a membership association that aims to promote Latin America as a tourist destination and stimulate growth of travel to the region. &nbsp; LATA Members represent an ever growing travel community with unrivalled passion and knowledge for Latin America. The association is comprised of over 360 companies including tourism boards, airlines, hotels, tour operators, representation companies and the travel press.

LATA

Seattle, Gateway to Alaska &amp; Pacific Northwest Adventures
Since 2000, Seattle has grown to be the #1 U.S. West Coast cruise port in number of passengers, with over 200 annual departures to Alaska from its two first-class cruise terminals.
The Port of Seattle also operates Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) the main international airport for Seattle and the gateway to the beautiful Pacific North West. Direct non-stop flights operate between the UK, Ireland and Seattle, and the light rail system gives quick and easy access to downtown Seattle.
It&rsquo;s great news that cruising to Alaska re-launched in July! Supporting federal standards to ensure safety for communities, employees and passengers, the Port of Seattle and cruise line partners have launched an abbreviated 2021 Alaskan cruise season with 84 ships sailing to the &lsquo;final frontier&rsquo;. Passengers will see more touchless amenities, more safety barriers, and more social distancing to ensure their journey is as safe and fantastic as ever!&nbsp;
Find itineraries, videos, guides, images and contacts at <a href="http://www.SeattleCruiseAlaska.co.uk">www.SeattleCruiseAlaska.co.uk</a> and Port of Seattle info at <a href="https://www.portseattle.org/maritime/cruise">https://www.portseattle.org/maritime/cruise</a>.
Whilst UK visitors may need to wait longer to enjoy their spectacular 7-night Alaska cruise, the Port of Seattle can assist you with ideas for pre/post stays in Seattle or itinerary suggestions for exploring the beautiful Pacific Northwest.&nbsp;
When selling the state of Washington think national parks (Mt. Rainier/Olympic/North Cascades), wild Pacific Ocean beaches, rainforests, volcanic mountains, historic seaport towns and over 1,000 vineyards. Ready-packaged itineraries are available from US ground operators or use these to inspire your own customised programmes.&nbsp;
For planning 2022 Alaska voyages, the following cruise lines will homeport in Seattle: Carnival Cruise Line, Celebrity Cruises, Holland America Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, Princess Cruises, Oceania Cruises, Royal Caribbean International, and Silversea Cruises.&nbsp;

Port of Seattle

South Africa is renowned for being a stunningly vibrant country due to its wide variety of cultures. Its incredible wildlife, scenic landscapes, cosmopolitan cities, and burgeoning food &amp; wine scene also make the country a favourite among a diverse range of travellers.
South African Tourism is the national tourism agency responsible for the marketing of South Africa as a preferred tourist and business events destination. The UK team is responsible for promoting to and supporting the travel trade through tools, training and marketing initiatives.

South African Tourism

The Tuk Tuk Club run award winning, innovative adventure tours through the mountains of Northern Thailand by Tuk Tuk. Our mission is to put the adventure back into adventure travel and to help our travellers get deep into the heart of this most beautiful part of Thailand. Launched in 2017 and described as 'the world's best driving holiday' we head well and truly off the beaten track, high into the mountains and remote Hill Tribe communities to explore a side of Thailand that's so often ignored. And with both self-drive (yes, that's right, you can drive your own Tuk Tuk) and chauffeur driven options we make sure that our travellers are in the heart of the action every second of every day of their holiday, just as it should be.
<a title="Our YouTube Channel " href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzEaXg2S0Fp_fcGfHBh5vdA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Our YouTube Channel </a> &nbsp;&nbsp;

The Tuk Tuk Club

Create fully branded videos automatically! No more film crews, No more editing, No more fuss. Now anyone can make high quality videos on a budget using this simple and innovative cloud solution. Create your video branding, send a link for people to record a video on a smartphone or computer, then in seconds, ShoutOut creates a video completely automatically with music, name caption and your logo and branding. You can also add subtitles and build compilation videos of product shots or activations, all without any editing experience.&nbsp;
Travel videos, Testimonial videos, video reviews, event videos, social videos, sales listing videos.
Find out more at and try for free at www.shoutout.social&nbsp;

ShoutOut

Tour Amigo is a B2B travel technology company specialising in digitalisation and distribution of multi-day tours.&nbsp;
As multi-day tour technology specialists, we provide operators with a complete cloud-based booking and reservation software (SaaS) designed to streamline their entire tour business.
In addition to time and cost savings, and increased productivity, our operators grow their revenue by featuring and selling their tour products across Tour Amigo&rsquo;s global distribution network.&nbsp;
Tour Amigo can provide agents and selling partners with over 500,000 multi-day tour departures and we have developed a booking journey that can be customised to any distribution partner or travel agency, which is optimised to increase conversions for multi-day tour products online or in-store.

Tour Amigo

Waterfront is the ambitious creative company for ambitious travel companies.&nbsp;
We are the creative agency for brands making a challenge. The innovators, the entrepreneurs and those looking to shake things up.&nbsp;
We&rsquo;re an integrated creative agency because we believe a story is better when you can see the whole picture. From smart strategy to brilliant creative ideas with a little behavioural science thrown in - we do work that works.&nbsp;
If you&rsquo;re happy, we&rsquo;re happy. We&rsquo;re about collaboration, not process. We&rsquo;re humble, low fuss and set up to achieve one thing; the very best work for our clients.

Waterfront

Curators of the Wildlife and Safari Show and the Grown Up Travel Show. Two excellent B2C live shows taking place in Harrogate on the 8th and 9th of October 2022.

Converge Exhibitions Limited

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We&rsquo;re a boutique PR company led by communications specialist Joanna Cooke. We offer a range of marketing communications services including PR activities, advertising, branding, copywriting, sponsorships, partnerships, the development of sales tools/presentations/materials, trade shows and consumer events.
We're proud to represent some of the UK's most popular holiday destinations including Thailand, Orlando, Northern Territory Australia and Pacific Asia Travel Association UK &amp; Ireland (PATA).

Departure PR

Trudie Clements from ABTA LifeLine will introduce a session on mental health, and how ABTA LifeLine can help those in the travel industry who are struggling to cope.&nbsp; Who is there to help?&nbsp; How can employers help staff who aren't coping?
She will then be joined by Tom Parry from TTG Media, with whom she worked on a recent campaign called 'Get Travel Talking'
This will form part of a general panel discussion with Jackie Steadman (Traveltime World); Yolanda Copes-Stepney (Speak&amp;Do) and Aly Darwin (Citizens Advice Manchester)

Trudie Clements

Yolanda Copes-Stepney

Aly Darwin

Tom Parry

Jackie Steadman

Nigel McShine-Jones

Mental health awareness with ABTA LifeLine

Trudie Clements will lead a session, discussing what companies should be considering when looking at how to create a sustainable business.&nbsp; What is important to consider, and what tools you need.
This will lead to a presentation from Rachel O'Reilly (Kuoni); Zina Bencheikh (Intrepid Group); Prue Stone (Hotelplan) and Holly Budge (How Many Elephants)
Following the presentations, there will be a live Q&amp;A with all panelists.

Prue Stone

Rachel O'Reilly

Zina Bencheikh

Holly Budge

How to build a sustainable business

Claire Steiner, leading expert in HR, will lead a session on the importance of HR in sustaining your business and developing employee engagement. &nbsp;How do you build a strong employer brand that will attract new talent and encourage team members to stay in your company? &nbsp;How do you reintegrate furloughed staff and how are employee expectations changing? Joining her for a panel discussion will be Alessandra Alonso (Women In Travel CIC); Philip Price (Work Advisor) and Adolfo Penzato (Unique Vacations) Following which she will chat to Ami Naru (Travlaw) about the legal implications employers need to consider as we head into a new way of working.

Claire Steiner

Alessandra Alonso

Ami Naru

Philip Price

Adolfo Penzato

How to sustain your business and build an employer brand

Debbee Dale, a leading HR specialist for many years, will lead a session on preparing for a future crisis.&nbsp; How do you plan for a crisis like the Covid pandemic?&nbsp; What tools do you need to put in place to ensure your business will survive in future?
Debbee will discuss this in detail with Lisa McAuley (Silver Travel Advisor) and Jane Stuart-Palikira (Ionian Weddings)

Debbee Dale

Lisa McAuley

Jane Stuart - Palikira

How to prepare for a future crisis

To prepare for the future, it's vital that all companies have a a strategy for networking, in order to build up relationships within the industry.
This session will begin with an opening speech by Nick Hughes (Gold Medal)&nbsp;
That will be followed by a panel discussion led by Rob Debenham, who will be joined by Basia Kolosinska (C&amp;M Travel Recruitment); Graeme Evans (Travelpack); Chris Lee (etm Group) and Lindsay Garvey-Jones (Holiday Extras)

Nick Hughes

Lindsay Garvey-Jones

Chris Lee

Basia Kolosinska

Graeme Evans

Rob Debenham

How to build relationships through networking 

We are delighted to welcome Bruce Poon Tip from G Adventures as our final keynote speaker.
Bruce is the founder of G Adventures and has built his business with our 4 key pillars in mind.
He will talk about the growth of G Adventures, and how you can build your business using his methods.
This will finish with a live Q&amp;A with Nigel McShine-Jones

Bruce Poon Tip

Keynote Speaker - Bruce Poon Tip

Nigel McShine-Jones will be joined by Rob Debenham and Benita Finanzio, two of the three co-founders of eMerge, to discuss the key facts and takeaways from the last 2 days.

Agenda

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Nigel McShine-Jones

Adolfo Penzato

Alessandra Alonso

Aly Darwin

Andy Headington

Basia Kolosinska

Claire Steiner

Debbee Dale

Farina Azam

Fiona Anderson

Garry Wilson

Holly Budge

Jahan Khan

Julia Lo Bue-Said

Katie McGonagle

Lisa McAuley

Lisa Minot

Lyn Hughes

Matt Purser