Long Haul Business Sales and Marketing Opportunities

Our business marketing team promotes London as the premier destination for meetings, incentives and events, and provides the official convention bureau service for London. We target meeting planners, incentive and conference organisers, associations, and corporates.

Click on the links or contact us for more information about any of the opportunities listed below.

Long Haul Educational Familiarisation Events

04 Aug 2009 - 04 Feb 2010

The long haul business team are currently planning a number of fantastic FAM trip opportunities that you could be involved in, taking place in October and December 2009, and February and March 2010.

Premier Partner Thomas Cook launches new corporate foreign exchange service to benefit Visit London Partners

17 Aug 2009

Thomas Cook has launched a corporate foreign exchange division to help you save money with your organisation’s overseas payments and foreign currency needs. The service is tailored to your company’s exact requirements.

International Travel Exchange (ITE)

14 Oct 2009 - 16 May 2010

Incentive Travel Exchange will once again bring together pre-qualified hosted buyers and hand selected sellers of incentive travel.

Campaigns 2010/11

23 Oct 2009

Building on the success of the innovative creative piece launched by Visit London in NA in 2008, Visit London will be working on securing new business for the city through a very targeted and measurable Direct Marketing Campaign.

Professional Convention Management Association Conference 2010

10 Jan 2010 - 13 Jan 2010

Location: Dallas

PCMA is an international association of professionals in the meetings industry whose mission is to deliver breakthrough education and promote the value of professional convention management. Visit London can offer partners co-sponsorship and registration package opportunities at PCMA's annual conference

Asia-Pacific Incentives and Meetings Expo 2010

17 Feb 2010 - 18 Feb 2010

Location: Melbourne, Australia

AIME is the premier trade event in the Southern Hemisphere for the meetings, incentive, convention and exhibition industries. The show offers the best of Asia Pacific's and International destinations products and services.

Destinations Showcase 2010

25 Feb 2010

Taking place in Washington DC and Chicago, these shows help you to reach the associations market. Representations from £600.

Asia-Pacific Incentives and Meetings Expo (AIME)

02 Mar 2010

AIME is the premier trade event in the Southern Hemisphere for the meetings, incentive, convention and exhibition industries. The show offers the best of Asia Pacific’s and International destinations products and services.

Premier trade event in the Southern Hemisphere

02 Mar 2010 - 03 Mar 2010

The show offers the best of Asia Pacific’s and International destinations products and services. AIME has grown substantially, bringing together 850 exhibitors from 50 countries with over 2500 meeting planners under one roof.

Successful Meetings University – International 2010 (Formerly International marketplace)

21 Mar 2010 - 23 Mar 2010

The third year of this event is eagerly anticipated. Aimed at the very lucrative CMP market, using the active database of Neilson Media to pull together this invitation only event.

N American Sales Mission – Midwest Region

22 Mar 2010 - 26 Mar 2010

Location: MO/IA/MN/IL

All sales missions take place over a week.  Visit London will be responsible for planning all aspects of the sales mission to include internal air transportation and transfers.

Sales Missions

22 Mar 2010 - 29 Mar 2011

All sales mission’s take place over a week.  Visit London will be responsible for planning all aspects of the sales mission to include internal air transportation and transfers. 

Springtime 2010

27 May 2010

Recently, over 4500 industry professionals attended this event with 800 exhibiting companies offering the solutions needed for success.

Sales Missions Asia-Pacific

10 Jun 2010 - 11 Feb 2011

Incentive & CMP

Trailblazers 2010

13 Aug 2010 - 15 Aug 2010

Trailblazers’ is an annual incentive travel promotion which targets key incentive and corporate meeting planners in the USA and Canada.

American Society of Assocation Executives (ASAE)

15 Aug 2010

Educational session plus two day trade exhibition aimed at the Canadian incentive and corporate meeting planners.  IncentiveWorks is the only show specifically aimed at the Canadian incentive market. 

China International Business and Incentive Travel Mart (CIBTM)

14 Sep 2010 - 17 Oct 2010

Organised by Reed Exhibitions, CIBTM is a 3 day conference and expo dedicated to serving China’s business and incentive industry through unmatched networking and trading opportunities.

The Motivation Show/ITME 2010

12 Oct 2010 - 14 Oct 2010

The Motivation Show (formally IT&ME) is the world's largest incentive and meetings exhibition attracting thousands of incentive buyers, many of who are responsible for selecting destinations worldwide.

FICP (An Association of Insurance and Financial Services Conference Planners)

17 Nov 2010 - 21 Nov 2010

An association whose membership comprise of meeting, convention and conference planning professionals working for insurance or financial services. A unique industry specific association.

Professional Conventional Managment Association (PCMA)

09 Jan 2011 - 12 Jan 2011

PCMA is an international association of professionals in the meetings industry whose mission is to deliver breakthrough education and promote the value of professional convention management.