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Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Officials and Partners concluded a successful exhibition at ITB, in Berlin Germany.\u00a0 Held from March 7 \u2013 11, the travel trade show is the largest gathering of travel and tourism officials in the world attracting over 10,000 exhibitors from 186 countries and 160,000 trade and consumer visitors.<\/p>\n

Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s delegation was led by CEO of the Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority, Colin C. James, who was supported by tourism partners including Blue Waters Resort, Ocean Point Resort and Spa, Hermitage Bay, Cocos Hotel and St. James\u2019s Travel and Tours in presenting the destination to the European travel trade.<\/p>

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ITB continues to be an important show for the destination as it presents a key opportunity to engage with tour operators from Eastern Europe as well as the other traditional European source markets.<\/p>

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Exploratory discussions were held with Condor to extend the flight next season until after Antigua Sailing week with further discussions to take place.\u00a0 Antigua and Barbuda has\u00a0also agreed to partner on DER Touristik\u2019s Mega\u00a0 Familiarisation (FAM) trip where over 144 top-producing travel agents will visit the region this winter.\u00a0 DER Touristik is Europe\u2019s third largest travel and tourism group and largest German tour operator for the Eastern Caribbean offering largest number of hotels for the German market to Antigua.\u00a0 Their last FAM to Antigua was held in 2009.<\/p>\n

Overall the European market contributes to approximately 20,000 visitor arrivals to the destination annually, with Germany showing a 29% increase year to date as of February 2018, a growth that has been felt by tour operator and airline partners.<\/p>

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