The Trade Exhibition took place on both days with over 50 top travel suppliers including hotel chains, cruise lines, tourist boards, airlines, holiday providers and many more there to meet local agents and discuss their products/services.
Spanish Tourist Board’s Agustin Garcia said “We are delighted to be in Belfast and to be a part of The BIG Event. We’ve been working with he Northern Ireland Travel trade for so many years. We missed the event last year, unfortunately, but this year we’re back again and we’re delighted to see all the agents and suppliers, and to importantly, have the opportunity to discuss matters with the travel industry. We’re extremely happy to be here.”
The NI Travel & Tourism Awards in association with Blue Insurance was also launched at this year’s awards – with Jonathan Adair outlining the voting criteria for 2022 and voting in all categories is LIVE NOW!
This year, the gala dinner was sponsored by Jet2holidays who treated attendees to a STAR-tastic with their ‘A Night with the Stars’ theme.
When asked why Jet2holidays chose to attend this year’s BIG Travel Trade Event, Alan Cross, Head of Trade at Jet2holidays said: “The quality of the industry that you’re got here, it’s as simple as that. You come to a two day event here and you’ve got the creme-de-la-creme of the travel industry of Northern Ireland, and as for showing our support, we come out in force, okay we’ve only got six people [with us] this time, but that is 6 out of 14 so 40% of our trade team is here to support, to network, and to get involved in some fanatic meetings; some formal meetings, some informal meetings and some fantastic side meetings which are some of the things that come out of this as well. It’s a win win situation.”
Jonathan Adair of NI Travel News said: “We were absolutely delighted to once again welcome our industry partners to The BIG Travel Trade Event. The feedback on this year’s event has been extremely positive and I am delighted that the team at NI Travel News did such a fantastic job.”
