James Dickson

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2,171 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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

Um, and yeah, excited to talk about uh uh uh the you know sort today's podcast subject and meet today's podcast guest. matched

Joining me on the link today is Chris Carter Chapman. matched

Chris is the event director for our matched

Arguably the world's biggest travel event brand, world travel market. matched

Chris was appointed as event director in May twenty twenty five. matched

So we're about twelve months into pose now. matched

Chris, firstly, a very warm welcome to the podcast. matched

How are you today? matched

Thank you very much. matched

Yeah, and um so yeah, a a year in post. matched

Um give us the headlines first of all for any of the event professionals who you listen to the podcast regularly, but who may not be familiar with World Travel Market as a brand and as an event. matched

How did it compare to previous events that you'd worked on when you you you were you daunted by the the the challenge, were you excited by it? matched

Were you all of those or both of those things? matched

Hmm. matched

When it comes to that customer journey at the event itself, because of its sheer scale matched

Is it feasible for for for people to attend the event in the way that they might attend matched

smaller trade events relevant to their you know the different business sectors where some people may leave a certain element of their visit to the event uh uh in down to serendipity. matched

Obviously a lot a lot of events want you to pre-plan your your visits there to pre-schedule meetings to look at the activity but with the sheer scale of the event that you are operating how important are those pre-show communications to the delegates to the matched

the attendees to help shape and make sure that their time spent during the event is as productive as possible. matched

Uh are there are there you know, just think about sort of modern day technology and apps and and indoor based sort of tracking technology that's available now, all of these fantastic tools that are at the disposal of the modern day event organizer. matched

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