Welcome to WTChat- your B2B platform in the sphere of travel services!
Find new partners, share experience, create communities, participate in professional events, and expand the audience to promote your destination.
We connect inbound and outbound travel markets across countries and continents
Take part in our professional online events to network with verified
Value
World Travel Chat benefits
WTChat for Travel associations
World Travel Chat helps the growth of the number of members of travel association and keeping the loyalty of the current members, as well as provides the international recognition which eventually leads to sponsorship opportunities. Enjoy the key role in destination marketing, audience engagement, brand promotion and worldwide networking for associations members
WTChat for Travel businesses
Scale your business by finding international travel partners. All the organizations go through verification process. Join our professional online events to meet international travel markets and learn practical networking tips and best practices from the world leading tour operators. Make your organization visible to other members of the community by creating a profile on wtchat.travel
WTChat for Destination Management Organizations
Promote your travel destination to the online audience of World Travel Chat. Invite tour operators and travel associations to attend your event. Use the networking potential of World Travel Chat to attract airlines, hotels, guides and travel authorities to make your destination promotion even stronger
WTChat for Major Travel Events
Provide the audience of the travel fairs and exhibitions with the opportunity to register via wtchat.travel and create digital profiles to help arranging meetings with potential partners during your event. Use our community to communicate with the event participants
WTChat for Tourism Media
Become an informational partner of WTChat international networking events and get the access to the audience of our community to share your stories and interview our key partners. Also, invite WTChat organizations to your own events
Community
Growing a thriving Digital Community
World Travel Chat supports travel organizations by helping transformation to the 21st century digital world and by providing travel professionals with a space for sharing best practices and making partnerships regardless of the difference in business mindsets, internet habits and language barriers
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Join World Travel Chat community
Fill out the application form. Our verification process aims to create a community of likeminded travel professionals who act responsively
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Create a digital profile
Tell your potential partners about the organization. You can add travel products and make them stand out with the tool of posting special offers. Auto translation will help your profile be understood by the international travel markets
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Connect with your target audience
Build your own communities, invite World Travel Chat audience to your own online events, be proactive to offer partnership opportunities or simply wait to be noticed by a potential partner and discuss cooperation opportunities
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Work with your audience
Use our messenger to share best practices with your audience and organize online networking by connecting inbound and outbound travel markets in a group chat
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Take part and become partners of professional events
World Travel Chat runs professional online travel conferences and networking events for destination promotion. Join our events or initiate your own with the WTChat audience involvement. Become a branded partner and enjoy your logo on the event cover
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Enjoy the networking benefits
Find partners through our professional community and get your goals accomplished: scale business, promote destinations, grow credibility
Uniqueness
World Travel Chat unique features
Productive community for likeminded professionals
WTChat is an exclusive community for travel professionals around the world. Access is granted through verification with tourism associations and other partners, ensuring a network of trusted and committed colleagues. This rigorous verification process fosters a trusted environment where you can network with like-minded peers, collaborate on industry trends, share best practices. Join WTChat and elevate your travel industry experience!
All services for building partnerships in one go
WTChat offers a platform to manage your networking: create digital profiles, find partners, schedule online and offline meetings with integrated calendar, build communities in group chats with auto translation and take part in B2B events
Gateway to Chinese travel market
WTChat helps businesses connect with potential partners in China’s travel industry. We partner with the China Association of Travel Services (CATS), the country’s largest travel association, and collaborate with regional associations to organize industry events. We cooperate with World Tourism Alliance members, and our key events are held with the headhunters in Hangzhou, China
Professional business to business network
WTChat is different from a typical social network. You do not need to open up a personal side of life in order to stand out
Unique online networking technology
WTChat aims to overcome the difference in internet habits, business mindsets and language barriers. Our platform wtchat.travel functionality allows connecting inbound and outbound travel markets in the common digital environment
Productive community for likeminded professionals
WTChat is an exclusive community for travel professionals around the world. Access is granted through verification with tourism associations and other partners, ensuring a network of trusted and committed colleagues. This rigorous verification process fosters a trusted environment where you can network with like-minded peers, collaborate on industry trends, share best practices. Join WTChat and elevate your travel industry experience!
Gateway to Chinese travel market
WTChat helps businesses connect with potential partners in China’s travel industry. We partner with the China Association of Travel Services (CATS), the country’s largest travel association, and collaborate with regional associations to organize industry events. We cooperate with World Tourism Alliance members, and our key events are held with the headhunters in Hangzhou, China
All services for building partnerships in one go
WTChat offers a platform to manage your networking: create digital profiles, find partners, schedule online and offline meetings with integrated calendar, build communities in group chats with auto translation and take part in B2B events
Unique online networking technology
WTChat aims to overcome the difference in internet habits, business mindsets and language barriers. Our platform wtchat.travel functionality allows connecting inbound and outbound travel markets in the common digital environment
Professional business to business network
WTChat is different from a typical social network. You do not need to open up a personal side of life in order to stand out
Events
World Travel Chat events
World Travel Chat organizes events together with Travel associations, Destination Management Organizations and Travel Exhibitions, as well as provides space and networking technology to agree on your own events and run them on our platform
Goals
Provide knowledge about the new travel markets.
Share best practices.
Provide the tools for networking with the new destinations.
Help travel associations to get international recognition.
How it works
WTChat invites the speakers.
Travel associations invite their members.
Optional registration via wtchat.travel.
A group chat for the participants for meeting partners.
The recording are shared with the branding of conference partners.
Target audience
Goals
Introduce unknown travel markets.
Provide specifics about accommodation, attractions, logistics and air travel from the inbound to outbound travel markers.
How it works
Two travel associations representing inbound and outbound tour operators agree on a meeting.
Online events is prepared with the destination key figures.
Group chat on wtchat.travel is organized to connect the travel business with filled out profiles.
Target audience
Goals
Provide a space for cooperation and sharing best practices with other travel associations.
Agree on the agenda of the future networking event between inbound and outbound travel markets.
How it works
Association creates its digital profile.
WTChat invites travel associations to join the discussion and facilitates it.
After the online event, associations can continue cooperation in a group chat on wtchat.travel.
Target audience
Our planned and completed events
Highlights
Key thoughts from the past events
Study the most interesting networking ideas shared during the events
News
World Travel Chat latest activity
Credibility
World Travel Chat credibility
Supervisory board
World Travel Chat is governed by the Supervisory board formed out of travel association who are the members of World Tourism Alliance. The Head of the Supervisory board is Mrs. Sun Guizheng, the leader of the largest Chinese travel association — Chinese Association of Travel Services (CATS) with more than 2000 members
Sun Guizheng
Secretary-General of CATS and the Head of the Supervisory board of WTChat
World Tourism Alliance
WTChat helps businesses connect with potential partners in China’s travel industry. The WTA membership comprises national or regional tourism associations, influential tourism or tourism-related enterprises, tourism destinations, non-profit organizations, academia, media, and individuals
Liu Shijun
Secretary-General of World Tourism Alliance (WTA)
Methodology
World Travel Chat develops through the expertise of the key international personalities and we are proud to run our events under the coordination from Alla Peresolova, who for many years had been the Head of UNWTO «Silk Road» program and is the founder of «Silk Road» brand. Alla’s unrivalled experience in building international communities is vital for WTChat development
Alla Peresolova
A founder and the former head of the UNWTO program «Silk Road»
Team
International team pillars
Technology
Our online networking is based on the unique networking technology provided by our platform wtchat.travel.
World Travel Chat online platform wtchat.travel is registered in Hong Kong, all rights reserved by Team Profit Advisory Limited
Competences
Our team is our main assert since it has an expertise in event management, destination promotion, quality assurance, travel association establishment and IT.
World Travel Chat rights and responsibilities to organize meetings, conferences and other events, including between travel associations and destination management organizations is reserved by the Silk Road Operations Center, registered in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Brand
We value our reputation and cooperate with World Tourism Alliance, travel associations, DMOs, travel media and travel business in their benefit to provide sustainable tourism development.
World Travel Chat intellectual rights, design and methodology of digital networking for tourism professionals are reserved and are the property of World Travel Chat Communications Ltd, incorporated under the Business Act of British Columbia, Canada
Team
World Travel Chat key personalities
China
Matthew Ma
World Travel Chat Regional representative for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Macao, former top manager of China Youth Travel Service holding.
Israel
Evgenii Zalberg
SEO Silk Road Operations Center. Started his career in the US tour operator Grand Circle Corporation, where for 12 years had been enjoying the roles of training and development and the country manager for Central Asia, Baltics and Eastern Europe. Over the last 5 years Evgenii has been doing business development for online travel platforms, when finally joined World Travel Chat in the role of Chief Operating Officer. He is responsible for World travel Chat project strategic development.
Uzbekistan
Oxana McChristian
COO Silk Road Operations Center. Oxana has more than 20 years of experience working in MICE. She has organized numerous international forums, conferences and exhibitions in the field of tourism. She is responsible for organizing of World Travel Chat online events, as well as networking for associations of different countries and their member companies during and after the events.
Contacts
Contact us
CEO
Elena Vvedenskaya
For cooperation with Associations, DMOs and Travel Media
Evgenii Zalberg
For organizing events with World Travel Chat
Oxana McChristian
