More than 4,000 attendees participated in Virtuoso’s first virtual Travel Week, which included 72,768 one-on-one meetings between travel advisors and preferred partners.
The event also featured 20 professional development classes and 50 destination-focused training sessions. An opening keynote speech was delivered by Matthew Upchurch, chairman and CEO for Virtuoso.
During the invitation-only conference, Upchurch emphasized that businesses can interact with their clients digitally and that “great content is a key to gaining consumer credibility.”
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Sustainability was also a key theme of the week, and a press conference for 200 journalists featured a presentation and a panel of travel CEOs. The event finished with a closing keynote by Sheila Johnson, co-founder of television network BET and CEO of Salamander Hotels and Resorts.
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