Registration is open for the Hosted Buyer Program of the 42nd ABAV – International Tourism Expo, to be held from September 24 to 28 at the Anhembi Exhibition Pavillion in São Paulo, Brazil.

Those interested should access the event’s homepage, available in three languages, and click on Hosted Buyer on the right menu. To participate in the program, it is necessary to fill out the registration form, and read and accept the terms and conditions. Registration is then sent to approval. All registration requests will receive feedback via e-mail.

ABAV Expo’s hosted buyers program is the largest in the country, considering Brazil’s and international key professionals of the travel and tourism industry are invited to the event, and they have potential and the power to make business decisions. In addition to meeting exhibitors of their interest in their own stands, some are selected to participate in business rounds, promoted every year during the first three days of the event.

ABAV expects 1,200 corporate buyers, mostly from South and North America, to attend the event. Abracorp, Embratur, and airlines GOL, TAM, and TAP, among other international airlines support the Hosted Buyer Program.

For further information please visit www.abavexpo.com.br.

Institutional Profile

The 42nd ABAV International Tourism Expo is promoted by the Brazilian Travel Agencies Association (ABAV Nacional), with the support of the Tourism Ministry, the Brazilian Tourism Institute (Embratur), the São Paulo City Government, and São Paulo Turismo (SPTuris), the city’s tourism and events company, which manages the Anhembi Exhibition Park.

An international partner of BTL (Bolsa de Turismo de Lisboa) and ITB Berlin, ABAV Expo, the largest and most important international travel and tourism business fair of the Americas is sponsored by the Brazilian Support Service to Micro and Small Companies (Sebrae) and the National Confederation of Goods, Services and Tourism Trading (CNC), which manages one of the world’s largest social development systems—the Commerce Social Service (Sesc), operating in the education, health, culture and leisure fields, and the National Commercial Learning Service (Senac), which is the leading professional education agent in the goods, services and tourism trading sector.