I am attending IFTM in Paris on Wednesday 18th of September. First time that I will be there. Is anyone else going?
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Hi you all, I am Inge a travel blogger, journalist & content creator from Belgium, Europe. I was wondering if anyone else is going to IFTM in Paris?
Hi Inge, I live in Paris but will actually be out of town during IFTM this year! :( I did go to IFTM a few years ago. I assume that being from Belgium, your French is much better than mine. For me, I struggled a bit at IFTM to have professional conversations in French, and my company's target market is in the US so I haven't gone the last year or two. I hope you have a great conference though! Sorry my reply is not very helpful; maybe at the very least it can boost it and encourage other people to reply.
Hilary
Thanks Hilary, will be polishing my French! I have mostly meetings with japan, so assume they will be in English?
Honestly, I would check. Normally it's safe to assume people in the travel industry speak English, but IFTM is *very* French-focused and, at least when I was there a few years ago, I was surprised at how many people didn't (or didn't want to) speak in English. It sure tested my French!
It's not very international if they don't speak English!
hahah - welcome to France! (Kinda joking, kinda not.) Again, this is all based on only my personal experience a few years ago. I had a MUCH harder time in English than anticipated... to the point where I stopped going, since our website is in English and we target Americans so any partner we work with needs to be able to operate in English, too. Definitely could have changed since I went!
True, I hope people of the Japanese booths will speak English? My French is ok but English is much better!
Hello Inge....I did attend Pre COVID....good conference lots of Airlines, CVBS, resorts etc....Good networking. I wont be attending but my College Helene that lives in Lille will be attending.
Sounds good! Thanks for your information. Hope to meet your colleague there!
Hello Inge, yes I will attend IFTM and at Civitatis we have a booth L086 and you are very welcome, if you need an entrance please let me know. Best, Georges
Hi Georges, will be there only on Wednesday, will try to pop in at your booth between my appointments. I have a press badge so that's covered. Thanks for your kind offer!
cool; let's try to have a chat on wednesday so Best Georges
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Maybe one day hopefully :)
It was a very interesting day at IFTM. Hope you will be able to go someday!