Look for complete coverage of the 2015 ipw in Orlando next week’s issue of the Inbound Report.. For now, here is a day-by-day sampler of images we have assembled.
Saturday, May 30
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“So I made it here. Now, what do I do?
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Luiz De Moura (standing), US Travel’s managing director, Latin America; and Michael Jacobson, director, grass roots and PAC, use us as a test case for the new ipw registration software. It worked. They let us in.
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Greeting journalists at the press registration area are US Travel’s Cathy Keefe, manager, media relations; Luiz De Moura, managing director, Latin America; and Michael Jacobson, director, grass roots and PAC; Jamie Morris, manager, media relations; and Jo Thomas, PR account director based in London.
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A veteran of many ipw shows, Massimo Terracina, a journalist who writes for several Italian trade publications, gets help from Visit Orlando’s Denise Spiegel, director of public relations, and Luis Rivera, public relations associate representative.
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Rachel Vigil, convention marketing associate representative for Visit Orlando, handled non-stop inquiries from ipw delegates near her post at the entrance to the exhibit floor .
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Christine Tremaine (left), marketing and tourism representative, CJF Marketing International, and her CJF colleague, Mindy Suhoza, travel and tourism representative, take a brief rest after setting up their booth.
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Donald Foste, senior director of sales, parks and resorts, Delaware North, stopped to chat with Inbound on his way to the exhibit floor to set up the company’s booth.
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Just after registering (left to right): Catherine Prather, executive vice president, NTA; Julie Hoover-Ernst, executive director, Faith Travel Association; and Kami Risk, president at NTA Services, stopped to exchange intelligence with Sally Davis Berry, tourism sales and marketing manager at Corning Museum of Glass and a member of the NAJ Group’s Strategic Advisory Council.
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Rare shot: an interregnum during the tumult and the shouting—at mid-afternoon—when there is a lull in the action at the main ipw registration area.
