Reed Travel Exhibitions appoints new Sales Manager for Mediterranean Travel Fair

Reed Travel Exhibitions, organisers of Mediterranean Travel Fair, have appointed Hibba Bilal as the new Sales Manager for the event. Formerly a Sales Manager at ITE Travel Exhibitions, Hibba brings with her a wealth of invaluable knowledge and experience to the event.

Born in Libya and educated in Vienna, Hibba qualified with a double major honours degree in Buisness Administration and Psychology in 1997 before moving to the UK where she took her first job with ITE. In the space of just two years, she worked her way up from Event Co-ordinator to Event Manager on EMITT (Eastern Mediterranean International Travel & Tourism Exhibition), run in Istanbul, Turkey.

Hibba will be responsible for all Mediterranean Travel Fair sales as well as dealing with all aspects of sponsorship available to our exhibitors. “Having come from EMITT and having worked with many clients in the Middle East, Hibba brings great international knowledge and experience to the event”, said Matt Thompson, Exhibition Director. “She previously worked on both Gulf ‘99 and the launch of EMITT last year, and with MTF only in it’s second year, Hibba is now keen to introduce a greater number of participants to the show. Hibba’s appointment is a wonderful asset to MTF and indeed Reed Travel Exhibitions and we are very pleased to have her onboard”, he concluded.

In addition, Hibba speaks fluent English, Arabic, German and Italian which will undoubtedly improve the service we can provide to our exhibitors within this region. “This is certainly an exciting time for me. The first Mediterranean Travel Fair was such a success in terms of both visitors and exhibitors worldwide and I can’t wait to start recruiting for 2001. Having worked in a similar market and having visited the region extensively, I am looking forward to sharing my knowledge of the industry and its clients with my new team”, Hibba added.

Hibba started at Reed Travel Exhibitions on 14th August 2000 and is looking forward to meeting MTF’s partners; the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, the Egyptian Tourist Authority, the Egyptian Travel Agents Association, Egypt Air, and the Egyptian Hotel Association on her first MTF visit to Cairo in September.

Reed Travel Exhibitions is part of Reed Exhibition Companies who manage over 300 events in 25 countries, serving over 55 different industry sectors with 112,000 exhibiting companies and 8 million visitors.

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Mediterranean Travel Market is one of nine other Reed events in the RTE portfolio. These include: World Travel Market, London; Arabian Travel Market, Dubai; C.I.S. Travel Market, St Petersburg; EIBTM, Geneva; British Travel Trade Fair, Birmingham; PATA Travel Mart, Singapore; International Golf Travel Market, Portugal and Top Resa, France. Each event benefits from Global Media Network partnership that includes 14 of the world’s leading travel trade publications.