Egypt will host the first online tourism conference which will be held between 15 and 19 December 2008 in Continental Garden Reef Resort Sharm El-Sheikh 
With the growing importance of online marketing, leading Middle East tourism organizations have endorsed the Electronic Union of Travel Industry (EUOTI) online marketing conference.
Speakers of the event include leading companies such as Google and Microsoft, leading international universities, the UN World Tourism Organization and Canadian e-Tourism Council.
Managed by the international organisation of IFITT together with the collaboration of the Arab Travel Organization (ATO), the EUOTI conference is held under the supervision of the League of Arab states and The Egyptian ministry of Tourism authorities.
E-tourism is increasing even faster than e-commerce and should reach 55% of the e-commerce sector during 2008. The phenomenal growth in e-tourism is due to the growing reliance on the Internet, e-mails, cell phones and recently, Web 2.0 applications such as TripAdvisor and Yahoo Travel, and meta-search engines such as Kayak or Sidestep.
EUOTIʼs International Online Tourism Conference, featuring industry and academic experts, gives Arab and Middle-East operators the chance to learn and take advantage of the latest E-tourism trends.
EUOTI has organised the 15-19 December 2008 conference in conjunction with the world’s leading academic body dedicated to tourism and technology, the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism and tourism (IFITT).
Conference attendees will benefit from a range of activities, tailored for both beginners and advanced online marketers, including workshops, panels and presentations.
The main objective of the conference is to create awareness, educate and update travel industry producers and concerned people with the latest e-travel, e-marketing and e-commerce strategies to enable them to achieve best sales and profits with the minimum effort and human power, as recently proved that around 52% of the worldwide e-commerce is covered by the e-travel industry.
The conference will discuss several important topics that include web development, web designing, SEM, SEO, online sales techniques, online marketing technologies, mobile marketing strategies, online hotel reservations systems appliance, video online marketing, hotel and restaurants e-marketing, travel companies business promoting, duplicating Investments aspects and broadening the horizon of e-travel business.
EUOTI has extended a sincere invitation to all travel business concerned individuals, corporations and properties to attend its booming international conference event and to get an official certificate approved from the leading world wide travel organisations of attending this unique in the Middle East event.
Participants of the conference will receive a certified certificate in e-marketing, and will have the opportunity to meeting with the experts and exchange experience in the previously mentioned fields. The event will help create a broad and wide net of communications between all participants, as well as bridge the gap between the traditional marketing methods and e-marketing.
A guest list, which will include ministers of tourism from all over the world, businessmen, and VIPs to be the conference guests of honor, is currently being prepared, with the organisers expecting 115 guests of honour and 60 journalists from all over the world, in addition to 12 TV channels for total media coverage.
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