Travel industry buyers who attend World Travel Market London are responsible for deals worth a massive $22.7 billion (£15.8bn), with an average purchasing responsibility per buyer of $3.1 million (£2.2m).

The message I want to deliver is that Panama is not an airlift country, it’s a country where you can stay, enjoy and get to know it from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean”, Jennifer Champsaur said during an exclusive interview given to CND within the framework of WTM, where Panama went from a corporate decoration in its stand to a different style that shows what the country actually is, its Historic Core, Old Panama, the city, its beaches, nature and part of its culture with the presence of diablicos sucios.

This year’s World Travel Market, held from November 2-5, 2015 at the ExCeL exhibition center in London, saw the Saint Lucia Tourist Board and its partners exhibit for the full four days in what proved to be a very productive and successful week.

Tyndall Centre climate scientist Professor Kevin Anderson pulled no punches when laying out the level of the threat facing both the travel industry and society at large.

Hints and advice from online giants for established players and startups alike ran through many of the sessions at Day 4 of the Travel Tech Show at WTM 2015, the largest in the UK.

The UNWTO & World Travel Market Ministers' Summit agreed that destination branding and the way tourism marketing organizations operate need to be adapted to the changes in social media.