Virtual PTM will be a business-to-business travel contracting and virtual networking event that will try to mirror and enhance the features of the long-standing PTM, which boasts over four decades of experience in connecting qualified international buyers and sellers from all of Asia and the Pacific region through pre-matched business appointments, says Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), the organizers of the event.

Virtual PTM 2020 will take place from September 23 – 27.

“As some destinations have slowly restarted tourism through either domestic or regional travel, eventually international markets will follow. Virtual PTM allows businesses to begin exploring new opportunities and markets, particularly as travel behaviour and patterns will be dramatically different post-Covid-19. Asia Pacific will be the leading force of tourism’s global recovery from Covid-19, as both an inbound destination as well as a robust source market,” said PATA CEO Mario Hardy.

The event will offer two full business days with a possibility of up to 50 appointments across all time zones from September 24 – 25. There will be two trade visitor days on September 26 – 27.