The intensity level was high as more than two dozen U.S. travel suppliers and destinations who had signed up beforehand for the opportunity took turns during a two-and-a-half hour session at NAJ’s Active America Summit at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas making six-minute Pecha Kucha presentations highlighting their destination or product to a conference room full of Chinese tour operators. At times, the atmosphere was part revival, part Bingo game or part pep rally as Mandarin-speaking U.S. sales and marketing professionals connected with the operators. Some stepped down from the podium and walked about with a hand-held microphone; some told quick jokes and some exhorted the operators to meet up with them later to discuss business. At the end of each presentation, an operator’s name was drawn from a bowlful of business cards and a prize was awarded. Some of the presenters included: (Photos)
