Media Request Form

Trade FAMS (Group or Individual):
Date of FAM
Trip
Sept 15-22, 2010 AERticket
June 2011 Tour Operator Fam
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Company Attending personnel Title Profile / Current product
8 Travel Agents + 3
escorts (GIA, AER, Delta)
4-6 product managers +
1-2 escorts
“Colorado’s National
Parks”
Colorado’s Summer
Gems
Promotion of fall tours in
Colorado to travel agents
Participating
Destinations
Estes Park, Aspen,
Ridgway/Ouray, Mesa
Verde/Cortez, Pagosa
Springs/Durango, Colorado
Springs, Denver
tbd tbd
AER FAM: Ticket consolidator AERticket, who manages a network of 6,000 travel agencies, offered to support airfare for an educational fam trip to Colorado with no additional costs
for airfare to CTO. Seats were blocked by AER with Delta Air Lines. The participants were very high profile agencies from throughout Germany with a heavy focus on the US including
the new product manager of tour operator Argus Reisen. A detailed report in form of a power point presentation will be forwarded separately.
Product Manager FAM: For June 2011 it is planned to invite around 5 product managers of tour operators from Germany and Switzerland. GIA reached out to British Airways and is
awaiting response on possible Airline support. Alternatives would be American Airlines or United Airlines.
Travel Tradeshows:
No travel tradeshows attended in September 2010.
Consumer Promotions
Consumer-Related Programs (Consumer shows/Consumer leads):
GIA is currently in contact with motorbike tour operator specialist RM Reiseteam on a joint participation at the INTERMOT motorbike consumer show in Cologne, Oct 6-11, 2010.
Furthermore, planning is underway for a participation in a consumer “kick off event” for the launch of new summer branch of tour operator Faszination Ski on November 13, 2010 and a
in a consumer event of a travel agency in Freiburg on November 27, 2010.
GIA registered on behalf of CTO for a counter at the Visit USA Pavillion at the consumer shows in Hamburg, Stuttgart and Munich. Further details tbd.
Currently, GIA is negotiating details for further consumer show participations in Mannheim or Leipzig with Five Star Tours.
Consumer / Catalogue Advertising:
GIA is currently working on a Consumer and Catalogue Advertising schedule for 2010/2011 winter months.
Consumer Email Newsletter:
The IPC approved the installation of a quarterly email newsletter on Colorado. GIA will coordinate planning and creates copytext and images.
Consumer Inquires without brochure fulfilment:
2 additional consumer requests for: Camping in Colorado, travelling by train through Colorado (both via email)
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