World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, is extending the opening hours of WTM 2014 to facilitate even more business as part of its 35th event celebrations. World Travel Market launched in 1980 and has grown to be the event where the industry conducts its business deals.

World Travel Market 2014, the leading global event for the travel industry, is introducing Blogger Speed Networking as a further addition to its hugely popular Blogging Program. WTM has been running a standing-room only blogging program, in association with Travel Bloggers Unite, attended by both bloggers and exhibitors since 2011.

World Travel Market has announced an increased focus on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender tourism market through strengthening the strategic partnership with the world’s leading specialist LGBT consulting firm, Out Now.

World Market Travel has left The Travel Network Group to join Advantage Travel Partnership. The Bath travel agency was set up by brothers Tim and Peter Giles in 1981 after both held senior positions at Renwicks Travel.

Taiwan is seeking to promote itself for the first time at the 2014 WTM Latin America international travel fair in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Taiwan's representative to Brazil, Shyu Guang-pu, said that exchanges between Taiwan and Brazil have been going well.

World Travel Market Latin America 2015 will take place at the Expo Center Norte, São Paulo on 22-24 April. Since the event is growing, it would not be possible to hold it at the Transamerica during the same time of the year in 2015. Access will be facilitated for international exhibitors and buyers.