Q & A with Carol Hay, Marketing Director for the UK and Europe with the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO)

The event focused on the long-term tourism vision for the historic Silk Road routes and how to establish the Silk Road as the most important transnational tourism route of the 21st century.

But as industry professionals descend on Berlin for the ITB fair, the world's largest travel trade show, the news isn't all good.

Members of the ITB Buyers Circle will benefit from numerous additional services that make it easier for them to do business at the World’s Largest Travel Trade Show.

Mr. Bartlett would also speak at the Pacific Area Travel Writers’ Association (PATWA) International Awards Ceremony, which takes place every year at ITB Berlin.

German chancellor Angela Merkel will this year open ITB Berlin. On the eve of the show, ITB Berlin and this year’s partner region, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, will be extending an invitation to the opening ceremony in Hall B at the CityCube Berlin.