Exhibitors' Feedback

Below are comments from some of the 2008 exhibitors...

Artyom Kozlovskiy, tourism director of Inters company: Otdykh/Leisure attracts big number of professional specialists and private will-be customers...

«For Inters it is essential to get contacts with agencies, first of all with regional ones. We are very happy with the number of representatives of regional agencies at the past Otdykh/Leisure at Expocentr. You don?t need to waste half day on the way to and from the exhibition, and this resulted in good attendance. There are some difficulties at the entrances to the fairgrounds, but these occur due to high popularity. I?d rather loose half an hour at the entrance and then enjoy the same ‘attack? on my stand, than have comfortable access to the pavilion at Crocus and afterwards contemplate empty passageways and sour faces of neighboring participants.»

Olga Ivanova, senior manager of Labirint company:

«We are very pleased with the results of our participation in Otdykh/Leisure at Expocentr. Our new-year and Christmas programs for Finland, Scandinavia and Russia along with our new programs for Greece, Norway and Sweden enjoyed great popularity among agencies. During all the exhibition days our stand was a place of active communication with partners and agencies, we gave out all our catalogues. Our company is a regular participant in MITT and Otdykh/Leisure at Expocentr Krasnaya Presnya. This fairground is comfortable for and loved by our agencies».

Mikhail Romanov, director general of Orfey company:

«Otdykh/Leisure at Expocentr is a very ‘active? exhibition. First two days we distributed about 2,000 catalogues. Our regional partners from Karelia and Velikiy Novgorod share the same opinion. Compared to Crocus fairgrounds here, on Otdykh/Leisure at Expocentr, they gave out twice as many catalogues. I need to mention the quality of visitors at Expocentr — people wandering without any interest were almost absent».

Alexander Burtin, commercial director of TEZ TOUR:

«We are very pleased with the results of Otdykh/Leisure at Expocentr Krasnaya Presnya. This year TEZ TOUR has become General Partner of Otdykh. More than 7,000 catalogue packages have been distributed from our stand during 3 exhibition days, and I consider it to be a wonderful result. Huge popularity was enjoyed by seminars on our destinations which we held on the first exhibition day. They attracted more than 300 agencies. I would like to especially mention the business activity at the exhibition which we think is connected with the convenient location of Expocentr in the city center close to the underground station».

Leonid Kuptsov, deputy director general of NORD company:

«We think that participation in Otdykh/Leisure at Expocentr was very successful for our company. First of all we are interested in professional visitors of the exhibition — agencies, and their number was higher than we expected. We were very glad that exhibition was held during three weekdays — it was time of nonstop activity for us. We managed to gave out all catalogues, communicate with our colleagues, hold scheduled meetings with Russian and foreign partners. Participation in MITT and Otdykh/Leisure is a necessary marketing tool for our company and that is why we will continue taking part in Otdykh/Leisure 2009 and next MITT. We consider Expocentr to be the most convenient fairground for holding travel exhibitions in Moscow because of its easy access both for exhibition participants and visitors».

Dmitriy Gorev, director general of Russkiy Renessans:

«We are completely satisfied with our participation in Otdykh/Leisure 2008 at Expocentr Krasnaya Presnya. As far as my opinion and opinion of director general of our partner company Byuro Petrograd are concerned, efficiency of participation in Otdykh/Leisure this year exceeded our expectations and the output is about to reach that from MITT in spring. Excellent ratio of quantity and quality of professional visitors at the exhibition! Our company is a regular participant of MITT and Otdykh/Leisure at Expocentr. Agencies are welcome to our stand in Pav.1 at MITT 2009!»

Andrey Mikhailets, marketing director of HROS.RU Online hotel reservations:

«Our company is not a first-time participant in Otdykh/Leisure at Expocentr Krasnaya Presnya. I would like to notice excellent organization of Otdykh/Leisure 2008 and its vast media support. Big number of professional visitors of the exhibition is impressive. We also made a comparative analysis of participation in Otdykh/Leisure and in other autumn events which showed that participation in Otdykh/Leisure is the most effective of all in terms of cost of contacts that we got and cost of work hour at the exhibition. I wish constant success and thank the organizing team at ITE company.»