Chris Carter‑Chapman

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Event Industry News Podcast · Inside WTM: One Year with Event Director Chris Carter‑Chapman · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

You say it's what our visitors are telling us.

Um, it's the groups of exhibitors they want to interact with, how they want to interact with them, uh, and also how they want to travel between different areas of the show.

show.

So we have for that reason, for a number of reasons, but that's been one of the key ones, launched

uh WTM Travel Tech.

Just a dedicated part of the show, which is where all of our private sector exhibitors will be located.

And for those people who are familiar with WTM or indeed Excel, since it expanded into its phase three expansion with that 25,000 additional square meters, we've decided to put all of our travel tech providers in that maritime hall so that they can have a dedicated space, dedicated entrance.

There'll be an innovation tech zone as you come into the venue from the east, where you'll be able to see robotics and AI and cutting-edge technology, you'll be able to feel and interact with them.

And then you'll make your way into the maritime hall where all of the travel tech will be located.

So, therefore, if you're a travel tech buyer, which many of our attendees are, and you specifically want to interact with travel tech providers, you know you're going to base yourself in the east.

Of the venue this year, but with full access to the full entirety of WTM and vice versa.

And we have a lot of people who will be attending WTM, maybe to see a destination provider or to explore and find new destination providers, but they'll also want to have travel tech meetings as well.

As well.

So they'll structure their day.

Perhaps they'll start at the west entrance in the morning and then make their way over into Travel Tech in the afternoon.

And travel tech for us year on year has grown so significantly, and you know, hugely disruptive force, positive force within the industry at the moment.

Um, and we saw a 55% increase from 24 to 25 in terms of travel tech uh providers at WTM.

So to embrace that, to give them that holistic, dedicated offering, launching WTM Travel Tech uh at this issue.

show, which we're hugely excited about.

That's absolutely right.

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