Innovations and new concepts come up against what has gone before. Innovations lead the travel and tourism industry into a truly global business and the world’s largest industry. Travel, tourism and hospitality combine for 8% of global employment, 9% of capital invested and 10% of global GDP.

China is also the hotbed of innovation. China’s travel marketplace is enormously fragmented because of its diverse culture and huge geographical reach. This makes technology-driven innovations that extend market reach, improves distribution efficiency and customer travel planning experiences the critical catalyst for growth.

Innovation to combat challenging times is the underlying theme to the 2009 China Travel Innovation Summit. This year TravelDaily will take a refreshing look at travel distribution business from the perspective of distribution leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

TravelDaily(www.traveldaily.cn) is China’s leading online publisher focusing on distribution, marketing and technology developments in the travel and tourism industries.

With our mainland China focus, we offer:

• An information portal and online community for the travel industry.
• In-depth weekly newsletter that caters to the needs and interests of travel industry executives.
• News release on our website, newsletter and through our local media partners.
• Cutting-edge travel news stories, up-dated daily from mainland China.
• Breaking news stories from travel distribution segment worldwide.
• Up-to-date reports on local trade shows and conferences.
• Conferences as key meeting places for high-level executives to network and discuss tomorrow's strategy with China focus.
• Email marketing campaign with customized feedback report to reach over 30,000 Chinese travel professionals.

Whether you are an airline professional, hotelier, travel agent, tour operator, travel technology specialist, conference and meeting planner, group travel organizer, tourist officer, trade supplier, travel journalist, destination marketing officer, or other travel and tourism professional you will find a wealth of relevant, useful information here on www.traveldaily.cn.

Launched on May.18 of 2006, TravelDaily has attracted over 30,000 travel and tourism professionals registered for our weekly newsletter till Jan.31 of 2009 and the average daily page view reached over 25,000.

China Travel Distribution Summit hosted by TravelDaily has been regarded as the most prestigious industry event in China. For more details about this conference, please visit the event website by clicking here.

Attend this conference to achieve these 4 core business objectives:

• Understand how the emerging social media strategy is changing the way that suppliers sell their products and travelers plan and buy travel products.
• Learn what impact 3G implication will have on the travel distribution industry as China will issue the 3G license in 2009.
• Understand the innovative distribution technologies to maintain your competitiveness in a modern distribution environment.
• Explore the investment opportunities in China’s fast-growing travel industry.

• Startup Challenge
  the most exciting part of the Summit. Each of 6-8 selected entrepreneurs from the startup companies who are less than 12 months in existence or companies leaving stealth mode (or are a little beyond startup) will have the chance to demonstrate their innovative solutions or products that will significantly impact travel planning, purchasing and trending. The winner will be rewarded the Best Innovator Award.
  
  
• Report release
  PhoCusWright, the world’s leading travel distribution consulting firm, will formally release its 2008 China Online Travel Report on this summit.
  
  
• Presentation
• Panel Discussion and Debate
• CEO Interview