IMTM 2019 Sponsorship Signing Ceremony


Maldives
PUBLISHED June 03, 2019

Official Signing Ceremony with the partners of the International Maldives Trade Market (IMTM) 2019 was held at Maagiri Hotel today morning at 1030hrs. IMTM is a B2B international travel and trade fair held in the Maldives. IMTM2019 is the second edition of its kind, and it aims to bring together 50 leading international tour operators and travel agencies, representative of 25 countries to explore new opportunities and liaise with a major representation of Maldives Tourism Industry. 

In IMTM, the Hosted buyers are exhibitors and local accommodation providers come is as trade visitors. This concept ensures a cost-effective platform for the trade visitors, as they can meet International buyers interested to sell Maldives. This year IMTM will bring 25 International Buyers primarily focused on Guesthouses industry of Maldives.

All Sponsor and Partner Agreements were signed by Hawwa Shiuna Khalid, Managing Director at IMTM. Key partners include; Astrabon as the main partner of IMTM 2019, along with Villa Hotels and Resorts as the Accommodation partner, HDC as the Host partner, Stage core as the Event Partner and PSM as the main media partner. Todays signing ceremony concluded with total of 26 partner companies.

This year IMTM is introducing a new component to their Fair format. IMTM has planned to collaborate with Aishath Azfa (an expert in sustainable development) and will be conducting a Sustainable tourism forum. The theme for the Forum is "Sustainable Tourism as a tool for local development". The Forum will provide a platform for dialogue within the Maldivian tourism industry on issues relating to sustainability of the Maldivian tourism sector. The Forum would gather focus on the key climatic and anthropogenic issues related to tourist activity while attempting to seek sustainable solutions based on international best practice, local initiatives, scientific research, technology and innovation. The aim of this forum is to invite key decision makers of the industry to gain insight into the best practices of sustainable tourism worldwide, adopt and incorporate those practices to achieve SDGS in the Maldives.

IMTM is to be held at 26th and 27th June 2019 at Farukolhufushi, Phase 2, Hulhumalé.
Islandchief is the official Travel Tabloid Partner of IMTM. 

For more information, you can visit the official website, https://imtmonline.com/

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