There was a significant rise in hosted luxury travel agents from the US, up 15 percent, this year and 10 percent more attended from France and Northern Europe. 45 percent of those hosted at this year’s ILTM were new buyers. A total of 66,292 appointments took place throughout the week, an increase of 9.5 percent year on year.
Alison Gilmore, director, ILTM, said, “ILTM’s success is the industry’s success. ILTM [this year] has been defined by announcements of many new launches and many growing luxury travel businesses across the world that truly sets the scene for the ILTM Collection in 2018.”
