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2025 Program
Conferences
2025 Theme: « Activating our strengths. Building desirable bridges ».
From a step-by-step strategy to major transformation plans, every move must be bold and responsible, and must allow the travel industry to adapt and innovate.
This theme will encourage everyone to activate their strengths in order to transform the challenges inherent in tourism into sustainable opportunities.
Conferences are given mainly in French. 2 conferences are translated (French / English)
Events
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Many events are hold at IFTM-Top Resa
Don't miss the Start-up Contest about innvotion & technologies in the tourism industry.
What about travel agents? 2 challenges: the Travel Agents Cup - discover new destinations & new products. Its little sister - the Travel Agent Cup Junior - hightlights the future generation of professionals. Who will be awarded as the best promoter of France?
Save the date for the famous IFTM Tourmag Party, which will be held at a new amazing venue.
Opening Conference & International Panorama translated
25 sept. 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Opening Conference* - 📍 Arena
25 sept. 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. International Panorama* - 📍 Arena
*simultaneous translation French / English
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Your IFTM Pass
23-25 sept. 2025 - Paris - Porte de Versailles - Pav. 1
€45 early booking until September 22, 2025
🎤Speaking engagements
| Conferences, Meeting Barometers
- Trends, news, figures, studies : downward information
- Goal: Share knowledge
| Conversations
- Experience feedback (without slide presentation)
- Goal: Share failures, issues and solutions - interaction
| Round tables
- Moderated by a facilitator (Q&A), discussion about current topics
- Audience questions at the end of the session and the possibility of a final round table and the use of slides at the end of the session
| Workshop
- Moderated by a facilitator, you generate collective work around a specific topic
- Goal: Share ideas and submit solutions.
| Stand Up
- Solo on stage to share a lived experience
- Goal: provide a concrete vision and offer avenues/solutions
| Presentation - What's new?
- Presentation showcasing a service, a solution, a new product
📍Conference rooms
| Arena*
A large room dedicated to institutional and inspirational conference sessions, with barometers and sessions on trends, usually organised as panel discussions. This room will also host the contests (Startup Contest / Travel Agents Cup and Travel Agents Cup Junior).
| Agora
One room, two atmospheres. Agora room hosts both classic conference formats and barometers on technologies and market trends, as well as short and dynamic concept- ‘What's new for sale’ sessions hosted by Away We Go. Exhibitors present their new products and digital tools in few minutes.
| Business Club
An area dedicated to business travel, with workshops where you can talk to travel managers, buyers and suppliers.
| Conversations Area
A space dedicated to dialogue and conversation between the speaker and the audience, where discussions are held without materials or slides. Practical sessions on the day-to-day challenges linked to new working methods, legal issues, safety, insurance, training and other support initiatives, social media and tools, etc.
| Sustainable Initiatives Village
This space, like the Conversations Area, will host testimonials, pitches and presentations, with opportunities to share best practices on issues related to sustainable tourism. This is the place to be to understand where our sector stands and identify the key players in the transition towards more responsible tourism in the future.
| Attractiveness Village
Practical sessions, case studies and workshops focusing on the attractiveness of the sector.
*Quiet Room. Conferences rooms equipped with audiophones for better listening.