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Travel Leaders Share Impact of IPW on International Inbound
U.S. Travel Association | May 14, 2024
Last week, U.S. Travel welcomed 5,700 attendees, including 2,000 international buyers and media from nearly 70 countries—an impressive 20% increase from last year––to IPW in Los Angeles. Each IPW not only cultivates valuable connections and knowledge-sharing but also serves as an economic catalyst, driving over $5.5 billion in future travel to the U.S. by spotlighting the very best of what our country has to offer. There is a decade of opportunity ahead as the United States prepares to welcome millions of new travelers to major events in destinations nationwide, such as Copa America this summer, the FIFA World Cup games and Americ...
At U.S. Travel’s IPW, Leaders Say Government Must Increase Focus to Achieve Travel Growth
U.S. Travel Association | May 7, 2024
LOS ANGELES - At U.S. Travel’s IPW – the largest generator of international inbound travel to the United States – association President and CEO Geoff Freeman shared a vision to make travel a national priority, solve barriers to visitation growth, and become the most-visited nation in the world. “It should be our national goal to be nothing short of number one in terms of visitor arrivals, visitor spend and visitor experience,” Freeman said. “But our ambitions are constrained by excessively long wait times for visitor visas, often-lengthy waits at customs, and an air traffic control system that is challenged to meet demand. A...
New Host Cities Announced for U.S. Travel’s IPW
U.S. Travel Association | December 6, 2023
Two new cities and three former sites chosen as hosts for association's international travel trade show WASHINGTON (December 6, 2023)—U.S. Travel Association announced today the 2026-2030 host cities for its IPW international travel trade show: Greater Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2026), New Orleans, Louisiana (2027), Detroit, Michigan (2028), Denver, Colorado (2029) and Anaheim, California (2030). Greater Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Detroit, Michigan, will serve as first-time IPW hosts. “By serving as host site of IPW, each of these world-class cities will play a key role in growing inbound travel and strengthening the U.S. econo...
U.S. Travel’s IPW in San Antonio Sets Stage for Future Inbound Travel Growth
U.S. Travel Association | May 24, 2023
Nearly 5,000 attendees from more than 60 countries gathered in San Antonio, Texas, May 20-24 for the 54th annual IPW—the travel industry's premier international marketplace and the largest generator of inbound travel to the United States. “The thousands of attendees we welcomed this week is indicative of the strong demand we are seeing for inbound travel to the U.S.,” said U.S. Travel Association President and CEO Geoff Freeman. IPW convened domestic travel professionals together with international tour operators, buyers and wholesalers from around the world, to meet under one roof—the Henry B. González Convention Center—for...
U.S. Travel’s IPW Trade Show on Track to Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels
U.S. Travel Association | April 5, 2023
The number of international buyers and media attending U.S. Travel's IPW in San Antonio (May 20-24) has returned to pre-pandemic levels—with several notable markets surpassing 2019 counts—a prime opportunity to boost the critically important U.S. inbound travel market. “Given the incredible early interest and confirmed registrations from our key global inbound buyers and media, IPW will be the main arena for building back international travel to the United States,” said Malcolm Smith, IPW general manager and U.S. Travel Association senior vice president of business development. “This can’t-miss event, coming to first-time hos...
U.S. Travel: International Delegates Return in Strong Numbers for IPW 2022
U.S. Travel Association | March 29, 2022
WASHINGTON — March 29, 2022 — A full two months ahead of the opening of IPW – the annual international trade show of the U.S. Travel Association – numbers shared today by the association reveal a strong return of international travel buyers and media for the 2022 event, which will be held in Orlando, Florida, June 4-8. Ten weeks out, registrations by international buyers and media have nearly doubled last year’s international delegate count. As of March 25, 712 international buyers and 364 media from 62 countries have registered to attend IPW. With the addition of 280 domestic buyers and 70 domestic press, more than 1,400 inter...
U.S. Travel Announces Cooperation With Connect Travel for IPW 2021
U.S. Travel Association | December 10, 2020
WASHINGTON (December 10, 2020)—The U.S. Travel Association announced Thursday that it will coordinate with the trade show company Connect Travel to co-locate several events around IPW 2021 (September 18-22 in Las Vegas) in order to maximize value to attendees and provide travel marketers with cutting-edge tools and intelligence to promote their destinations and products in a post-COVID environment. As travel businesses evolve their promotion strategies to emerge from the global pandemic, the adjusted IPW format for 2021 will enable exhibitors to grow domestic visitation in addition to regaining their share of rebounding inbound travel—...
U.S. Travel Announces New Dates for IPW 2021 in Las Vegas
The U.S. Travel Association | October 1, 2020
WASHINGTON (October 1, 2020)—The U.S. Travel Association today announced that IPW, its annual international inbound travel trade show, will be a live, in-person event held in Las Vegas from September 18-22, 2021. The September dates are revised from previously released 2021 event dates. U.S. Travel, together with premier sponsor Brand USA and our hosts, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and Travel Nevada, secured later dates to provide additional time for international long-haul travel to the United States to broadly resume. “Next year’s IPW will reunite the global travel community and be the keystone for safely rebu...
