BTM 2011 Feedback

Our first time exhibiting at Business Travel Market has been a success for ATPI, exceeding our expectations with a large number of visitors to our stand and meetings carried out over the two days. Coming at the beginning of the RFP season, the event provided a great opportunity for us to meet and actively engage with high calibre travel buyers, all of whom were the key decisions makers and the people we need to talk to. Through a pre-organised and efficient appointment system we were able to strategically look at who we wanted to meet with and maximize our diary time for the duration of the exhibition. Presenting numerous new business leads for us, we definitely recommend Business Travel Market to our industry peers.
Shelley Mathews, Head of Sales UK, ATPI

You run a great programme and I am honoured to be part of the Event.
Andy Menkes, Partner PTCi

It was a great event, my team and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The booking system worked really well this year and we had over 50 quality appointments.
Alison Smith, UK Sales Director, CWT

I was impressed with not only the size and scope of the exhibition, but the quality of the buyers as well. As a first time exhibitor I was impressed with how many meetings I had confirmed prior to the first day and I’m already looking forward to exhibiting again next year!
James Swift, Skyline Worldwide

Portman Travel's participation in this, its first BTM, was an unprecedented success and we were delighted with the level of interest we received as the official travel management company for the exhibition. It was a great event and perfectly demonstrated its importance to corporate travel buyers from around the world. We were also impressed with the sophisticated meetings diary system which delivered many good new contacts for meetings on our stand. After such success, we are already looking forward to next year's BTM.
Adrian Parkes, Chief Commercial Officer for Portman Travel

BTM 2011 has been a really worthwhile experience for Supranational. The quality of buyers was high and the organisation of the show very professional, resulting in a businesslike and productive environment on the show floor.
Cho Wong, Managing Director, Supranational Hotels

Business Travel Market 2011 was the perfect place for Travelodge to engage our brand with senior corporate travel managers and key third party agents. Unlike some other shows in the events calendar you can be assured a level of attendee with a pre-qualified spend. This creates significant business networking opportunities which can lead to real ROI after the show if followed up correctly.
Andy Besent, Sales Director, Travelodge

The first thing to mention is that it was a delight to work with you and your staff. You have a great team and they have been exceptionally helpful every step of the way. The quality of attendees at the show was very good and our team absolutely love the pre-arranged meetings tool concept. This, together with the hosted buyer programme really does differentiate your show from others and are a testament to the innovative nature of the event. The majority of meetings that were booked did occur and your staff were only too happy to chase up people who were running late, which was greatly appreciated.
Julia Surry, Marketing Manager UK, Airplus International

Returning for our second year, we are pleased to be making Business Travel Market in London's Excel our main European focus to connect with our customers. At Starwood we put a lot of importance on spending time with our key current clients as well as new faces and this event did not fail again to deliver on both counts. This year we had twice as many hotels from around the world here to update the industry on the persity of our brands, from these we received great feedback on the quality of attendance.
Paul wardlow, Director, Transient corporate Sales (EMEA), Starwood Hotels

It was a great opportunity to meet key players within the travel market, and the seminars were extremely useful and relevant in content.
Audra Giles, DMGT (The Daily Mail Group)

BTM 2011 was an excellent opportunity to meet key stakeholders, suppliers and to get an up-to-date with the newest development within the different areas of Travel Management.
Nicolai Skovsmose, Novo Nordisk A/S

This is a must attend event in my business calendar. Hollywood has its Oscars and Television its Emmy's, the Travel Industry has BTM! Another successful year, keep it up guys.
Karen Duncan, Aberdeen Asset Management Plc

A great arena for networking and getting a good overview of what's new out there.
Cathie Jepson, Lawson Software

The event is very well run and provides an excellent platform for me to meet new potential suppliers. The show this year in particular was very rewarding and have some strong business opportunities to progress. Excel is an excellent venue for the show as well with good transportation links and facilities so please do not move.
Dean Mitchell, ATPI

BTM gets better every year!
Mark McKaig, MRM International

For the second year I was able to meet in one place several Business partners, precisely a few weeks before RFP's are launched. BTM is the right place to give the first push to my next year RFP's.
Helder Mendes, NetJets Europe

BTM provides a very calm atmosphere for meeting with suppliers which usually have been selected as key suppliers for many companies. So within only one day you meet all need people under one umbrella.
Elena Lebedeva, The Association of Business Travel

Organisation to a high standard, great opportunity to meet multiple suppliers/benchmark fabulous networking opportunity.
Avril Gray, Standard Life

BTM is about quality of people attending and not quantity of people in volume for statistical purposes.
James Dummer, Luxury Cultural Tourism

Very good organisation of the event and lot's of space for 1:1 meetings.
Lars Doerfel, Prismus

No wasting time, maximum of benefits.
Igor Orlov, Association of Business Travel

The ability to prearrange the 1-2-1's with suppliers was incredibly useful. The seminars were informative, enjoyable and interesting, especially 'BodyTalk'. Having a social aspect was a brilliant way to get to know both suppliers and other buyers on a less formal level, fantastic. All round a highly enjoyable, well planned and executed event.
Ngaire-Elizabeth Pratt, AQA

This year’s speakers and content was by far the best seen at BTM to date
Olive Kavanagh, Microsoft

I do very happy with all organization of the BTM starting from creating diary,travel facilities for the buyers,interesting and very useful sessions,I could not imagine all the process could be organized better and more useful, Thank you very much!
Oleg Voevodin, Onexim Group

Very, very good organization and very interesting contacts.
Giuseppina Suergiu, G.B.C. Communication

It was my 2nd BTM, and it fully confirmed my expectations on what I would achieve, ie encounter new suppliers whom will be of definite added value to my travel program.
Luca Barducci, Bridgestone

The quality of the Exhibitors was excellent, very professional.
WALTZ,Henry, Geck'o Incentives & Events

I would like to stress that out of many exhibitions I ever attended this is the most helpful. ROI is obvious and BTM raises new ideas and which is very important - BTM invites speaker who are introducing shadowed or unknown skills or new tendencies in the market.
Irina Kuznetsova, PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia BV

I don’t have any query, I'm writing you only to thanks about information received and to congratulate with your organization. It' s the first time I participate at the fair BTM and I had never seen a system so well organized.
Erica Sartori, Business Travel, Calzedonia SPA