GAD World 2017
2017-11-07 08:00 - 2017-11-09 14:00 (Europe/Paris) | The Westin Paris Vendome, Rue De Castiglione 3, Paris, 75001, France
The 24th annual Global Airport Development (GAD) conference will be held on 7-9 November 2017, at the Westin Paris Vendome, in Paris.
Over the last three decades, GAD has firmly established itself as the one annual event the industry makes sure not to miss. GAD regularly attracts 350+ airport operators, investors and financiers, as well as airlines, regulators and senior executives from banks, consultants and law firms. This includes over 100 airport operators, 50+ airport & operator CEOs & CFOs and 50+ powerful investors, making GAD a great place to meet the best of the global industry under one roof.
GAD focuses on maximizing value in the airport business model. With a 150+ strong speaker faculty covering the latest developments in airport strategy, finance and management, GAD World offers a unique environment in which to learn, network and do business.
Bringing together 500+ attendees for an evening of relaxed networking, the cocktail night on Day One of GAD World is always one of the highlights of the event. This year will also be held the GAD Awards, last run at the 20th anniversary conference in 2013. Winners will be selected by GAD World attendees earlier in the day and the results revealed during the evening event.

World Travel Monitor® Forum 2017
2017-11-09 19:00 - 2017-11-10 21:00 (Europe/Athens) | Villa di Corliano, S. S. Abetone 50, San Giuliano Terme, 56010, Italy
In 2017, IPK International is organizing its 25th World Travel Monitor® Forum, taking place on 9-10 November in Pisa, Italy.
The World Travel Monitor® Forum is an insider meeting exclusively for a limited number of selected stakeholders from the international travel and tourism industry. The conference is organized every year by IPK International in cooperation with ITB Berlin – the world’s leading tourism fair.
The primary objective of the World Travel Monitor® Forum is to analyse the state of the travel industry in the current year. It furthermore provides up-to-date touristic forecasts, preliminary outlooks for all major tourism markets and additionally discusses current trends and challenges of the travel industry. Speakers and participants from all over the world present and discuss their latest confidential research findings in order to provide participants with a first orientation over latest trends in tourism and changes to be expected in the near future. Speakers and participants from all over the world as well as representatives from important international tourism bodies represent an international and multi-disciplinary group of specialists who give the Pisa Forum its international reputation as the annual “think tank” of the global tourism industry.
Highlights of this year’s meeting in November 2017 will among others be the following:

World Tourism Performance 2017 and first Outlook 2018
Latest information by UNWTO
Travel Technology
Religious Travel
Overtourism
Luxury Travel
Chinese Outbound Travel
