E tourism Conference - TO BE HELD IN NAIROBI IN OCTOBER - Coastweek.com
Coastweek - - The first major international E tourism conference for East Africa, will take place in Nairobi on the 13 and 14th of October this year.
The two day, E Tourism East Africa conference, which is being sponsored by Safaricom, Microsoft and Visa International, will bring some of the world's leading experts on online tourism to the region for the first time.
Delegates from Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia, as well as across Kenya are expected to attend.
The conference will feature more than 27 presentations from international and local companies and it will bring together global online and digital experts, from companies such as:
Expedia, Microsoft, Google, Digital Visitor, Trip Advisor, Eviivo, New Mind and WAYN (Where Are You Now?) the world's largest social network for travelers.
The international experts will address conference delegates about the new technologies available, as well as highlighting marketing and e-commerce solutions, the best use of social networking, the implications of blogging and the importance of user generated content and online video for the travel trade.
E Tourism Africa is a pan African initiative to assist Africa's tourism sector to better understand the internet and the range of online marketing opportunities now available.
The managing director of E Tourism Africa, Mr Damian Cook, explains the reasons for the conferences.
"It is vital that the tourism sector in Africa becomes aware of the vast online opportunities for business.
"Over 70 per cent of young professionals rely on the internet to research and book their holidays.
"Up till now there has been very little information available to the travel trade in Africa on how they can maximize their online presence"; said Mr Cook.
The E Tourism East Africa conference will be held in Nairobi at the Fox Cinema at Sarit Centre on the 13-14th October, followed by three days of special training seminars for the tourism sector on the 15-17th October at the KWS Training Centre in Langata, Nairobi.
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