Exhibitor Quotes
Testimonials from Companies who exhibited at the Business Travel Show 2008.
Hotel Reservation Service
Jochen Emmerich
Leader Corporate Sales
"The show was excellent in terms of corporate and
TMCs – it’s worth coming…definitely!"
Jazeera Airways
Haitham Habib
Marketing Officer
“The first day was fantastic – we had an amazing day.
We are here to increase branding and awareness and
this has been a good opportunity...”
Carlson Wagonlit Travel (Alshamel)
Warmund von Massenbach
Director of Sales – Middle East
“The show provided quality meetings and helped with our networking. We support the show one hundred percent and it’s very important for us to have a booth. With shows such as ATM and Business Travel Show… ATM provides the leisure side, and this (BTS) focuses on the business.”
Alshamel International
Philip C Hedges
Training and Brand Standard Manager
"The Business Travel Show is a great forum to meet all the business travel buyers, to find out their needs and to get their feedback on our services. The show allows us to meet corporate buyers who have the real spending power, and influence business travel decisions."
BCD Travel
Iain Withers -Vice President Partner Network
Manish Nimkar - Manager UAE
"The Business Travel Show offers us a unique opportunity to build brand awareness and create a regional presence. It has been great exposure, as we have a lot of corporate visitors here, not just from Dubai but from the GCC region including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia."
British Airways
Claire Guppy
Corporate Sales Manager, Middle East
"To have the region's big players from the airline industry, travel management companies, hotel groups, corporate Credit card suppliers and ancillary travel services - such as car rental companies - all under one roof can only be progressive for the attending corporate customers.
Dnata
Abdulla Tawakul
Vice President
"We have met corporates in the main but also many fellow industry professionals such as other TMC's, Hoteliers, Airlines and of course the Press
The Business Travel Show is target specific and focused to the world of corporate travel. Other travel shows have a broader audience attracting trade and clients from all aspects of the travel industry whereby the BTS had a specific target market and hence a particular focus on one type of travel - the corporate."
Intercontinental Hotels Group
Thomas Rowntree - Vice President, Sales and Marketing MEA
Chris Bradley - Global Account Manager, Corporate and Agencies Middle East
"The decision makers we have met here have been very positive and it really helped us to achieve our objectives which were to meet our key clients, to answer their needs and to strengthen the relationships between us."
Premier Inn
Darroch Crawford
Managing Director
PTI Gulf Hotels LLC
"We are very happy with the response, making more contacts than we expected. It has been very successful so far and we are very pleased. We've met a lot of corporate buyers that are very interested in our product and price, especially as we have come in to Dubai with very competitive prices."
Rizon Jet FZC
Pascale Barhouch
Sales & Marketing Coordinator
Travel Consultant
"The Business Travel Show, the name says it all, that's why we are here. We are here to meet people who are involved in the corporate travel business. Our target audiences are the ones using our service to travel to meetings and conduct business. We met a lot of target clients, and instead of having to go to them, they are coming to us at the show, so it is great opportunity for our company."
Nuran LLC
Rosa Diaz
Director, Sales & Marketing
"We want to create an awareness of our product, and since our target audiences are corporate clients, it is definitely necessary for Nuran to be here meeting both existing customers and potential customers. We were positively surprised on the first day of the show as we had people coming to us wanting to know about our brand. Some even wanted to sign contracts right away, so the interaction and contacts we have made has been very productive. We have achieved both quantity and quality results, so the show has exceeded our expectation."