ATTA Regional Meetings Across the United States Announced
February 3, 2010
Coming to a city near you, the ATTA’s regional meetings are open to all travel industry professionals, creating peer-to-peer networking among tour operators, destination marketing representatives, specialty and adventure travel agents, and consumer and travel trade media.
In each meeting, your ATTA host – Chris Chesak or Chris Doyle – having joined more than 500 executives at the association’s 2009 Adventure Travel World Summit in Quebec, Canada, will present an, “Adventure Travel Industry Briefing”, featuring current strengths and threats facing the industry, backed up by recent industry survey results, market size data and a synopsis of emerging trends. The meeting will then shift to lively group discussions on topics such as the economy, key market forces, marketing strategies and more.
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Boulder, February 11 COMPLETED!
3:00 PM @ REI Boulder
1789 28th Street (map)
HOST: ATTA’s Chris Chesak
R.S.V.P. for the Boulder Regional Meeting: Click here.
Boston, February 19
10:50 AM – 12:20PM @ The Boston Globe Travel Show
Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Boulevard (directions)
HOST: ATTA’s Chris Doyle
Boston’s Regional Meeting will be held during the trade-only day of the 2010 Boston Globe Travel Industry Conference on February 19th. ATTA’s Chris Doyle will present an Adventure Travel Industry briefing, followed by Industry Dialog led by special guest, Russel Walters, ATTA Board Member and President of Maine-based Northern Outdoors.
Meeting participants will also gain access to the rest of the Travel Show at no charge.
For your free registration for the ATTA
Regional Meeting in Boston, go to registration for the Boston Globe Travel Show.
Use the code ATTA2010, select “Full Conference”,
and finally check the box next to the session “OPEN MEETING -
ADVENTURE TRAVEL TRADE ASSOCIATION- ROOM 3″.
Post-Boston Regional Meeting Networking
Ordinarily, the ATTA’s Regional Meetings are 2-3 hours. In the special case of the Boston Globe Travel Show, it is the first the time the ATTA has held a regional meeting within an adventure travel show, and we’re just 90 minutes to cover a lot of territory. Therefore, our regularly scheduled networking periods will occur later in the day at two optional sessions:
1) At 4:00PM, The Boston Globe Travel Show starts its Travel Industry Opening Reception right on the show floor, which opens at 3:30pm. This gives the travel industry folks, including those signed up, the opportunity to walk around and meet folks in a more casual atmosphere. Anyone registered can come. Full agenda here: www.bostonglobetravelshow.com/agenda.htm.
2) The second is an emerging series of “Adventure Drinks” – a new, loose series of informal, local networking events assembled by adventure travel industry professionals in markets across the U.S., this one hosted by DuVine Adventures. Here are the details:
Harpoon Brewery, Friday, February 19, 2010 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM – Join ATTA Member DuVine Adventures for a fun, DuVine Adventures Party Friday night out at Harpoon Brewery (map). Come and be part this unique opportunity to get private access to the Brewhouse Platform and sample some award winning Harpoon beer. Learn about the incredible award winning destinations DuVine has designed for 2010. Located inside the Marine Industrial Park, next door to the Bank of America Pavilion, and near both the World Trade Center Boston and the Black Falcon Ship Terminal. RSVP for this networking event to info@duvine.com by Feb. 5
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New York City, February 24
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM @ The Men’s Journal Board Room
1290 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor (map)
HOST: ATTA’s Chris Chesak
R.S.V.P. for the New York City Regional Meeting: Click here.
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And in partnership with the Institute at the Golden Gate, where our ATTA Regional Meeting will be held. |
San Francisco, March 12
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM @ The Institute at the Golden GateCavallo Point Lodge
546 Seitler Road (directions)
HOST: ATTA’s Chris Doyle
AGENDA
Welcome & Introductions (15 minutes)
Adventure Travel Industry Briefing (30 minutes):
Led by Chris Doyle, Vice President ATTA: ATTA and industry News & Developments, 2010 Adventure Travel World Summit + special guests from Scotland, Research, Market Size Report, Emerging Trends
Special Session (45 minutes):
Destination Management & Marketing Around the Globe – Spotlight: Hoi An, Vietnam
Presented by Robin Tauck & Partners:
Special Guests: Robin Tauck, Founder (Introduction) & Randy Durband, Sr. Partner (Project Overview)
Robin Tauck & Partners is a new entity — not affiliated with Tauck World Discovery — whose mission is to develop and enhance public-private partnerships that further the goals of “sustainable travel and tourism,” especially with regard to the social aspects of local community development, with a particular focus on world heritage.
They are partnering with many entities, including UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre itself, but other prominent destination management entities as well. For this workshop, participants will: 1) contribute their feedback to proposed changes in tourism management at Hoi An, My Son, and surrounding sites in central Vietnam; and, 2) learn how to engage with Robin Tauck & Partners in other world heritage sustainable tourism initiatives underway now and in the future.
Networking (90 minutes)
Peer-to-peer networking among tour operators, destination marketing representatives, specialty and adventure travel agents, and consumer and travel trade media.
R.S.V.P. for the San Francisco Regional Meeting: Click here.
The Institute at the Golden Gate advances environmental preservation and global sustainability by facilitating cross-sector dialogue and collaboration, encouraging new partnerships, and promoting action. The Institute helps forge environmental solutions by gathering policy makers, scientists, youth activists, and business leaders in an exceptional and inspirational setting.
Updates: 2010 Adventure Travel World Summit, Early Bird Deadline Set, “Suggest a Speaker” Process Introduced
December 16, 2009
Early Bird Registration Announced
For the Adventure Travel Trade Association’s October 4-7, 2010 Adventure Travel World Summit in Aviemore, Scotland, the ATTA has set its Early Bird special pricing registration to expire April 15, 2010. Already, more than 50 adventure travel industry executives have pre-registered for the annual gathering which is expected to sell out early at 600 delegates. The First Minister of Scotland will be opening the event, the networking will be as powerful as always, media are lining up, the ATTA has identified great speakers and entertainment, and delegates will get the first-hand opportunity to experience the great outdoors in the legendary Scottish Highlands.
For the ATTA’s 2009 Adventure Travel World Summit in Quebec, there were 535 registrations representing 43 countries – an event which achieved a 95%+ very satisfied/satisfied rating from nearly 200 detailed survey responses.
Register for the 2010 Adventure Travel World Summit now to guarantee your spot.
New for 2010: Summit Speaker Nomination Process Introduced
The ATTA is encouraging the community to suggest innovative thinkers, field and business discipline experts and compelling storytellers for consideration as guest speakers at its Adventure Travel World Summit events, most immediately for the 2010 Adventure Travel World Summit set for October 4-7 in Aviemore, Scotland.
Each year, the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) combs the globe seeking compelling individuals who can bring new thought, fresh dialog, in-depth expertise, authentic and raw subject matter to the table. Learn more about how you may Suggest a Speaker.
Vancouver Regional Meeting Report
May 14, 2009
VANCOUVER, B.C. – The first in a series of “Meeting of the Minds” events gathered tour operators, destination marketing representatives, travel agents, and media from the broader Vancouver and Whistler areas. Hosted by the ATTA and held at the Canadian Tourism Commission offices, the event was attended by sixteen companies, where industry trends were discussed, marketing ideas shared and peer-to-peer networking was a highlight.
ATTA President, Shannon Stowell, presented current strengths and threats facing the industry along with Q1 2009 industry survey results. The round table presentation allowed for a lively discussion on topics such as the economy and how to adjust, Voluntourism trends, supplier/operator relationships, the small ship cruising industry, and whether adventure travelers will see a decline in the quality of services offered by tour companies and lodges worldwide due to the recession. In light of successful partnerships among ATTA members such as Tourism Yukon and Kelty, ExOfficio and Jordan Tourism Board, Teva and Belize and others, ‘Manufacturer FAM trips’ were brought to light as shared marketing opportunities that leverage the strengths of all the organizations.
Overall, expectations are high and excitement buzzes from our Canadian members, upcoming speakers, and the CTC for the Quebec-based Adventure Travel World Summit 2009.
Later this month, the ATTA will subsequently host another “Meeting of the Minds” regional meeting in Boulder (May 29). Learn more.
For questions regarding ATWS Quebec 2009, please contact Paula Mendes at 604-815-1418 or via email at paula@adventuretravel.biz.
May ATTA Regional Networking Meetings
April 15, 2009
Coming in May, the Adventure Travel Trade Association will host three regional industry gatherings -– titled the “Meeting of the Minds” — in New York City, Vancouver and Boulder, Colorado.
| VANCOUVER MEETING DIRECTIONS |
| 1055 Dunsmuir St, Suite 1400. Corner of Dunsmuir and Hornby |
| NYC MEETING DIRECTIONS |
| 711 5th Avenue, 17th Floor. Between 55th and 56th in the Coca Cola building.
You will need to be on the RSVP list to check in with the building reception. Photo ID required. |
| FRONT RANGE MEETING DIRECTIONS |
| 1789 28th StWhile driving north on 28th, REI will be on your left shortly after Canyon Blvd.
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In Vancouver, B.C. on May 5th, the meeting will be at the Canadian Tourism Commission’s offices from 11:00AM to 1:00PM. RSVP here.
The New York City meeting will be on May 13th, between 11:30AM-2:00PM, at the National Geographic Adventure offices, in Midtown Manhattan. RSVP here.
The Front Range meeting will be in Boulder, Colorado on May 29th, from 2:00 – 3:30 PM at the REI store in Boulder. Register here. This meeting will be preceded by a TravelGeeks meeting that starts at 12:30PM.
ATTA Members’ attendance and lunch are free, and for non-members the cost is $35 (payable online or via cash/check on-site).
During these meetings, Tour Operators, DMO/Tourism Boards, Media, and Specialty Adventure Travel Agents will gather to:
- Participate in vibrant, peer-to-peer networking
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Access the latest news and updates from the ATTA, the field and the industry at large
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Learn and share the latest in marketing strategies, trends and research – ATTA will deliver Q1 2009 survey results
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Identify current strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities facing the industry
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Seek areas of opportunity to collaborate, share resources and minds for mutual gain
Connect with industry experts and come prepared to share and discuss how you and your organization can navigate, survive and thrive in these changing times.
Industry Networking Events to Visit Seattle, Boston, Vancouver (Canada), New York and Boulder (Colo.)
June 16, 2008
ATTA Regional Meetings this Summer
Seattle
June 25th
11:00AM – 1:00PM
Location: ExOfficio: 114 Vine Street in Belltown (directions)
RSVP: Click here.
Boston
June 25th
11:30AM – 1:30PM
Location: TravMedia Boston headquarters, located on the second floor of the Castle Group offices in the Charlestown Navy Yard: 38 Third Avenue (directions).
RSVP: Click here.
Vancouver – Sponsored by Small Planet Consulting
June 26th
11:00AM – 1:00PM
Location: Subeez Cafe: 891 Homer Street (directions)
RSVP: Click here.
New York
June 26th
11:30AM – 1:30PM
Location: Men’s Journal Manhattan headquarters, located at 1290 Avenue of the Americas (aka. 6th Ave., between 51st and 52nd St.) in the AXA Building (directions). Wenner Media (publisher of MJ) is located on the second floor and the building’s security will provide in-building directions to ATTA guests.
RSVP: Click here.
Boulder
July 8th
2:00PM – 4:00PM
Location: REI Boulder: 1789 28th St. Boulder, CO 80301, (directions).
RSVP: Click here.
Please RSVP to reserve your place today.
ATTA Regional Networking Meeting – July 8, Boulder, Colorado
June 3, 2008
Where: REI Boulder: 1789 28th St. Boulder, CO 80301, (303) 583-9970 DIRECTIONS
UPDATED! When: 2:00-4:00PM (food and beverages provided)
ATTA President Shannon Stowell and VP Chris Doyle will serve as your hosts for this lunchtime gathering where we’ll network, collaborate and discuss challenges and opportunities facing our industry – specific agenda posted below.
Anticipated attendees for our Front Range gathering primarily include leading adventure travel tour operators, destination marketing organizations, tourism boards and journalists. Each of our regional meetings this year has created a mini-Summit-like atmosphere offering a great deal of energy and lively discussion on topics that are helping to advance our industry.
If you have other colleagues who you’d suggest we invite, please forward their name and contact information to info@adventuretravel.biz for consideration. Additionally, please feel free to share other agenda topics you’d recommend the ATTA and fellow attendees entertain at this gathering.
R.S.V.P. by July 3rd to reserve your spot today by sending an email to info@adventuretravel.biz. We look forward to meeting you in person on July 8th.
AGENDA
Membership Strengthens, Diversifies
ATTA Member Updates – Highlights
Association Partnership Updates
2008 Adventure Travel World Summits (www.adventuretravelworldsummit.com)
- South America – Brazil, Sept. 4-6
- Europe – Norway, Oct. 21-25
- Keynote highlights, event flow, speakers, sessions & add-on adventure excursions
www.AdventureTravelNews.com Launch
www.Adventure.Travel Updates
New ATTA and ATWS Sponsor Updates
Members Only 2008 Tune In Webinars
Your news, updates and Q & A
Open Networking
COMPLETED! ATTA San Francisco – East Bay Area Regional Meeting – May 30th
May 12, 2008
COMPLETED: Please join ATTA on Friday, May 30, from 11:30 AM to 1:30PM EST at the REI Berkeley retail store at 1338 San Pablo Ave (near Gilman) (Directions).
ATTA’s Chris Doyle, along with one of the newest members of the ATTA team, Lisa Alley, Business Development Manager, will serve as your hosts for this lunchtime gathering where we’ll network, collaborate and discuss challenges and opportunities facing our industry — specific agenda posted below. Lisa brings to the ATTA international economic development experience in Bulgaria, El Salvador and Indonesia, special adventure development work recently in Northeastern India, as well as a stint with National Geographic Traveler magazine researching and writing for the Geotoursim editor.
Anticipated attendees for our first East Bay gathering primarily include leading adventure travel tour operators, destination marketing organizations, tourism boards and journalists. Each of our regional meetings this year has created a mini-Summit-like atmosphere offering a great deal of energy and lively discussion on topics that are helping to advance our industry.
If you have other colleagues who you’d suggest we invite, please forward their name and contact information to info@adventuretravel.biz for consideration. Additionally, please feel free to share other agenda topics you’d recommend the ATTA and fellow attendees entertain at this gathering.
R.S.V.P. by May 27th to reserve your spot today by sending an email to info@adventuretravel.biz. We look forward to meeting you in person on May 30th.
AGENDA
- Membership Strengthens, Diversifies
- ATTA Member Updates – Highlights
- Association Partnership Updates
- 2008 Adventure Travel World Summits (www.adventuretravelworldsummit.com)
- South America – Brazil, Sept. 4-6
- Europe – Norway, Oct. 21-25
- Keynote highlights, event flow, speakers, sessions & add-on adventure excursions
www.AdventureTravelNews.com Launch - www.Adventure.Travel Updates
- New ATTA and ATWS Sponsor Updates
- Members Only 2008 Tune In Webinars
- Your news, updates and Q & A
- Open Networking (including Icon Estates Napa Wine Tasting)
Marketing Visionary and Adventure Pioneers Headline at 2008 Adventure Travel World Summits
April 29, 2008
(SEATTLE) – Registrations opened, preliminary agendas were released, and exceptional headliners were announced today by the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) for its 2008 Adventure Travel World Summit South American and European fall conferences expected to draw a combined 800-900 executive-level delegates for peer-to-peer networking, professional development and adventure familiarization and press tours.
Influential speakers during the ATTA’s 2008 Summits include: the author of Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want (Harvard Business School Press, 2007), which Time magazine recognized in March 2008 as one of the “10 Ideas That Are Changing the World”; an adventure and environmental explorer-researcher duo who have circumnavigated the world via low-level flights that contributed to the science of conservation; and an internationally acclaimed author and filmmaker who is considered the world’s most accomplished living polar explorer.
For its September 3-6 Adventure Travel World Summit-South America in São Paulo, Brazil, Authenticity (http://www.authenticitybook.com/) author James Gilmore’s keynote, “Real Travel: Rendering Authenticity in an Increasingly Unreal World”, will address the emerging experience economy and the rise of authenticity as a consumer sensibility with insights into experience design, customer experience management and experiential marketing that renders truly authentic travel experiences. Additionally, in service of environmental and scientific causes, explorers Margi and Gérard Moss, who have traveled more than 20 years in around-the-world light aircraft expeditions photographing and filming at low altitude the land, seas, forests and deserts, will share their most ambitious climate-change related project yet, “The Flying Rivers” (http://www.riosvoadores.com.br/), a project that aims to quantify the amount of water vapor transported in “flying rivers” – the air masses blown down from the Amazon region carrying huge quantities of humidity that triggers rainfall.
For the ATTA’s October 21-25 Adventure Travel World Summit (ATWS) held aboard an expedition passenger ship voyage between Tromsø and Bergen, Norway, delegates will gain unprecedented first-hand polar region insights from famed Norwegian explorer and filmmaker, Børge Ousland (http://www.ousland.com/). Ousland, whose copious polar expedition records include a successful dead-of-winter North Pole expedition and the first solo ski expeditions to both of earth’s poles, will inspire delegates in Tromsø-the world’s “Polar Headquarters”-with real-world guidance in preparing for and managing risks, dealing with adversity, tolerating change, innovative thinking and re-defining and achieving success.
These pioneers will be joined by additional keynote presenters and a combined field of approximately 40 trend setters and industry experts representing diverse business disciplines. Summit conference sessions are geared toward giving market professionals tools to grow and improve their businesses, professionalizing and promoting adventure travel worldwide, and increasing business-to-business networking and collaboration. In addition, the Summits will address regional business needs and address common, cultural and environmental sustainability issues impacting the world today.
Expected to draw 500-600 delegates, the ATTA’s ATWS-South America agenda will emphasize:
- Practical tools for day-to-day business decisions;
- Focus on operations, guide support and recruitment, publicity, industry best practices;
- Connecting incoming companies with Brazilian and South American partners in a marketplace environment; and
- Top-level trends and research for future planning.
In Norway, the ATTA expects approximately 300-350 executives from around the world, with higher levels of participation expected from North American, European and African markets. In addition to small, dialogue-based sessions focusing on visionary, strategic, big-picture organization and systemic issues today and for the future, heavy agenda emphasis includes:
- Peer-to-peer executive level networking, both structured and informal;
- Market research and trends;
- In-depth sessions with a special emphasis on marketing and sales;
- International partnership development; and
- Adventure travel as a vector of sustainable development.
Considered the global adventure travel industry’s most strategic conferences, the ATTA’s 2008 Adventure Travel World Summits, which follow on the heels of its 2005, 2006 and 2007 widely acclaimed Summits in North America, take the professional gathering to new markets to increase the worldwide connectivity of the adventure travel industry. Early-release Summit information, including more complete agendas for each Summit event, delegate registration fees, and special transportation and accommodation packages for each Summit, is available at http://www.adventuretravelworldsummit.com/.
Major Sponsors of the ATTA (http://www.adventuretravel.biz/)-a global membership organization dedicated to unifying, professionalizing, promoting and sustainably growing the adventure travel market-and both 2008 Adventure Travel World Summits include: Brazil Tourism, ExOfficio travel clothing, Innovation Norway, Men’s Journal magazine, and W.L. Gore and Associates. Key Sponsors include Adventure Central, Alpine Tourist Commission, Best of the Alps, Chile, National Geographic Adventure.
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COMPLETED! May 15th Tune In Webinar: Guidance: The Role of Carbon Offsets in Adventure Travel
March 26, 2008
ATTA’s Tune In Webinars are typically reserved for ATTA Members - *In the case of Carbon Offsets, the ATTA is making this special Webinar available to all adventure travel industry professionals. Click here to register.
COMPLETED – Recorded Webinar to be posted the week of May 19th Thursday, May 15th, 2008 from 10:00am to 11:30am PDT Due to the global importance of this topic, this Webinar (a 90-minute session) will be OPEN TO ALL adventure travel industry professionals. Brian Mullis (see bio.) and Richard Edwards (see bio.) will help industry professionals better understand the value of the potential of the voluntary offset market into the future. Participants will learn how to choose an offset provider that meets target businesses goals. Participants also gain the information and insights needed to make a decision on whether carbon offsets are right for their adventure travel company.
- History and Background of the Voluntary Carbon market
- Are carbon offsets part of the solution?
- Carbon offsets as part of your Sustainable Travel strategy
- Benefits of carbon offsetting to your business
- Addressing the issues of credibility, transparency, and your investment
- Philanthropic and humanitarian benefits
ATTA Members: To access more information about this and other Tune In Webinars, login at the Members Only site.
COMPLETED! May 1st Tune In Webinar: Improved Performance = Improved Profits: Getting the Best from Your Employees
March 26, 2008
ATTA’s Tune In Webinars are reserved for ATTA Members – Not a Member? Membership details>>
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 from 10:00am to 11:30am PDT
In this 90-minute session, Anne Loehr will provide a specific business case study and talk about development of employees/retention/profits and then the success equation and importance of attitude. She’ll address, “What is Coaching” and cover such important notions as listening, involving, etc. Plus, she’ll provide insights as to when and when not to coach, again, with case studies. Then, she delivers the recipe: “How to Coach and WIN BIG”. There’ll be plenty of time for Q&A. Participants in this special Webinar will learn:
- How employee retention, employee performance and profits are directly linked
- How the success equation impacts organizational effectiveness
- What is coaching and how coaching can improve bottom line profits
- When to coach and when not to coach
- Practical systems and questions to use when coaching
ATTA Members: To access more information about this and other Tune In Webinars, login at the Members Only site.
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