Expedia holds meeting in Cyprus

Expedia Partner Services Group (PSG), the central point of contact for travel suppliers to access the global Expedia marketplace of leading travel brands, is holding a Supplier Summit in Limassol this week.
Supplier Summits are a way to show Expedia’s loyalty to its travel industry partners. The most important hotelier players and Expedia representatives will meet in this Summit to analyze the sector results and to talk about how the industry performance could be in 2010, based on the current forecasts and data available.
“Supplier Summits are a great get-together opportunity,” said Diego Lofeudo, Regional Director of the Market Management for Expedia in Eastern Mediterranean and Africa. “Expedia continuously invests in partner – facing tools and activities. These Summits are a great example of our commitment to the hotel industry”.
Around 120 suppliers of the tourist industry among them hotels, airline airlines, car-rentals, tourism boards are invited by Expedia to participate in the Supplier Summit at the Amathus Beach Hotel. This is the first of 19 events taking place in the forthcoming months in South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Malta, Cyprus, Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya and Tanzania.
In these meetings relevant industry topics will be discussed and the main purpose is to examine the industry performance compared to last year, talk about what Expedia expects in terms of results for the year ahead, make a summary of the main highlights of the year in course such as new developments, products launches, results analysis, and give an award to the seven best hotels of each market.
Among those highlights, Expedia will explain the www.expediapartnercentral.com launching, which is the one stop service point to facilitate the hoteliers its work management with Expedia, as well as the Media Solutions, a marketing program for the hotels that allows them to do advertising in Expedia in order to increase its sales, or the launching of new sale points of Expedia and hotels.com during 2009.
Expedia, in the eagerness to find new ways that could help to improve the results of the industry, after the drop of tourists as a result of the international crisis, has decided to set up these meetings known as Supplier Summits, showing once again its commitment with its partners.