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Welcome to Travel Media Showcase
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Beautiful Kansas City, Missouri hosts Travel Media Showcase 2008! |
Travel Media Showcase 2008
We hope that you will join us in Kansas City, MO, USA for the 9th Annual Travel Media Showcase. Once again we'll be bringing together leading print and broadcast travel media
to meet with representatives from the United States, Canada, and international destinations like Africa, India and Malaysia in a highly organized and business-like format
involving pre-scheduled one-on-one appointments and fam tours.
Travel Media Showcase 2008 will be held September 2-5, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, MO, USA.
Our unique three-day program will include two days of pre-scheduled journalist/exhibitor appointment sessions, local fam tours, post tours plus numerous
networking opportunities. Local Media or Editors may opt for a one-day registration option. Click here to view the Schedule of Events.
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”Thank you for hosting such a well-planned, first-class Travel Media Showcase. My appointment schedule ran smoothly, and the tourism
hosts were extremely informative.”
Maggie Espinosa
Journalist, La Mesa, CA
“The showcase was a valuable source of information and introductions”
Karon Warren
Journalist, Ellijay, GA
“I really enjoy the format this trade show follows.”
Margi Grant
Exhibitor, San Mateo County, CA
“My CVB has attended this show for numerous years but this was my first TMS show, it was fantastic!!!"
Carrie McLaren
Visit Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
“I thought the entire show was amazingly flawless. You all were terrific.”
Elizabeth Blair
Journalist, Tucson, AZ
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Travel Media Showcase is a one-stop, opportunity for travel journalists to:
- Meet one-on-one with public relations and communications practitioners from convention and visitors bureaus, state, regional, and international tourism offices, attractions
and theme parks, major hotel chains and destination resort properties, airlines, cruise lines and gaming venues
- Gather new story ideas and background material on a broad range of tourism products
- Develop personal relationships with key travel information sources
- Network with other travel journalists and editors
- Schedule follow-up media visits to destinations of interest
- Sign up for participation in upcoming destination-sponsored familiarization trips
Registration is free and open to qualified travel media: Editors, Staff Writers, Assignment Writers, Freelance Writers, Photographers, Video
and Film producers for newspapers, magazines, television, broadcast/video/film, internet, travel guides, books.
All applications are subject to approval. Media must provide clippings/samples of their recently published work.
All qualified media are encouraged to apply for participation via the online application form.
Registration is limited please apply early.
Journalist registration begins March 31, 2008 and attendance status notifications will be sent via email by May 1, 2008 and on a rolling basis after that point.
Please allow 5-10 minutes to complete the application form. You may save your partially completed form and then return to it later.
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