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

Yeah.

Yeah, the the economic numbers um I think really do speak for themselves.

And if you think about, you know, travel more generally and its economic impact, uh one in ten jobs now are connected to our industry.

And and we play a very direct role in that, um, as you say, over the course of the the event, but also in the months leading up to it.

You've got hundreds of people working on on WTM from all the destinations around.

Around the world that will want a presence there.

You know, many, many months, as people can imagine.

Planning is going into this.

And many people start talking to me about their plans for the following show immediately after the show that they've just run, which is very organized of them.

I like to have just a couple of weeks to brief, but they're already thinking about how we can take our activation beyond what we did last year, how can we, you know, trend fest, which is our experiential activation.

But they were ready.

zone, you know, what can we do that's genuinely different, exciting, that would entice people to come and visit us.

So huge amounts of pre-planning goes into this work and it supports many thousands of jobs.

It's it's an interesting challenge.

And whilst there are some opportunities for us to grow physically, um certainly in the expansion, whilst we fill all of the halls beneath, there's about twenty-five rooms above it where we're putting in the WTM Leader Summit, which we're running for the first time, which will be for heads of tourism officers from right across the globe to come together and discuss issues specifically commensurate with.

their level.

So we're we're activating that space.

It's where we have our United Nations Summit.

um which is in its 20th year.

Um so that's a very exciting milestone for us.

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