11 June 2025: WTM London 2025 has announced that this year’s conference programme will be shaped around the theme “Reimagining Travel in a Changing World”.
In 2025, for the first time, WTM London are introducing a unified theme across all six conference tracks to maintain focus and enhance clarity throughout the event. While the tracks remain consistent with last year—covering Sustainability, Technology, DEAI (Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion), Marketing, Geo-Economics, and Travel Trends—the unified theme will create a cohesive experience for all attendees.
Organisers are now inviting bold thinkers, fresh voices, and forward-looking innovators to submit proposals for WTM 2025. This is an opportunity to share expertise with a wide-reaching, global audience of travel industry professionals and contribute to shaping the future of the sector.
Submissions should align with one of the six key conference tracks and clearly demonstrate how the proposed session supports the 2025 theme: Reimagining Travel in a Changing World.
WTM’s keynotes, panel discussions and presentations are a highlight of the event, as evidenced by the overwhelmingly positive feedback each year from attendees, sponsors and speakers alike.
Conference session attendance rose by 29% in 2024 compared to 2023. In response, WTM London quickly expanded stage capacity, including a debut extension into Level 0 of Excel London. For 2025, conference space will be increased even further to accommodate expected growth in audience numbers.
Six industry experts comprise the conference advisory team. Their role is to curate the submissions for their respective track and to tap into their extensive networks to bring interesting and relevant stories to the stage.
WTM London’s conference advisors and tracks consist of:
- DEAI - Uwern Jong, Experientialist®-in-Chief at OutThere
- Geo-economics - Mark Frary, Author, Writer and Consultant
- Marketing - Matthew Gardiner, Director of Travel Massive and Senior Vice President at FINN Partners and Tina Charisma, Director and Founder of the Charisma Campaign
- Sustainability - Tina O’Dwyer, Founder & CEO of The Tourism Space
- Technology - Timothy O’Neil-Dunne, President at T2Impact LLC
The conference programme is already starting to take shape. The opening day – Tuesday 4 November – sees the WTM Global Travel Report, sustainability summit and geo-economics summit taking place from 11am on the yellow, purple and orange stages respectively. The technology and DEAI summits are happening on the Wednesday 5 November, also starting at 11am on the purple and orange stages.
The final day of the event – Thursday 6 – features the marketing summit on the yellow stage, as well as the ITT Future You Forum and the closing keynote, details of which will be announced shortly.
Previous closing keynote speakers include businesswoman and comedian Katherine Ryan, award-winning documentary maker Louis Theroux and entrepreneur Steven Bartlett.
Submissions for the Call for Content will close on July 7.
“Introducing a unified theme across the programme brings greater consistency and coherence to our content,” said Brooke Gilbertson, Conference Manager, WTM London. “Reimagining Travel in a Changing World is a theme designed to inspire attendees to reflect on the evolving purpose of travel in the face of global shifts, emerging challenges, and fresh opportunities. It lays the foundation for meaningful dialogue, innovation, and collaboration across every facet of the travel and tourism industry.”
“Last year, we launched the Call for Content form, which was a great success—introducing us to some outstanding new speakers and fresh perspectives. The form reflects WTM’s ongoing commitment to providing an inclusive platform for meaningful ideas that tackle today’s challenges and inspire long-term transformation across the travel industry.
“WTM London’s conference sessions have always struck the right balance between being educational and entertaining, and with the momentum built last year, we expect this year’s line-up to be one of the strongest in WTM London’s 45-year history.”
Anyone interested in speaking at WTM London 2025 can click here for more details and to access the application form.
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Notes to Editors
World Travel Market (WTM) Portfolio comprises of leading travel events and online portals across four continents. The events are Arabian Travel Market, WTM London, WTM Latin America and WTM Africa.
WTM London is the world’s most influential travel and tourism event for the international leisure l travel community. The show is the ultimate destination for those seeking a macro view of the travel industry and a deeper understanding of the forces shaping it. WTM London is where influential travel leaders, buyers and high-profile travel companies gather to exchange ideas, drive innovation, and accelerate business outcomes.
Next event: 4 to 6 November 2025 at Excel London.
Arabian Travel Market (ATM), is the leading, international travel and tourism event in the Middle East for inbound and outbound tourism professionals. ATM 2024 welcomed over 47,000 attendees and hosted over 30,000 visitors, including more than 2,600 exhibitors and representatives from over 161 countries, across 10 halls at Dubai World Trade Centre. Arabian Travel Market is part of Arabian Travel Week. #ATMDubai
Next event: 28 Apr to 1 May 2025, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai
https://www.wtm.com/atm/en-gb.html
Arabian Travel Week is a festival of events taking place from 28 April, within and alongside Arabian Travel Market 2024. Providing a renewed focus for the Middle East’s travel and tourism sector, it includes Influencers’ events, GBTA Business Travel Forums, as well as ATM Travel Tech. It also features the ATM Buyer Forums, as well as a series of country forums.
Arabian Travel Week is a 10-day long festival of travel and tourism events that take place in Dubai. All eyes are on the city, as Dubai invites the international travel industry to come together each year and take part in the events so that we can shape the future of travel together. The travel events that are part of Arabian Travel Week include ATM Start Up Competition, ATM Travel Tech, GBTA Business Travel Forums and Buyer Networking.
https://www.wtm.com/arabian-travel-week/en-gb.html
WTM Latin America is held annually in São Paulo and attracts more than 29,000 tourism professionals and almost 800 exhibiting companies during the three-day event. The event offers a qualified content combined with networking and business opportunities. In its latest edition, in 2024, WTM Latin America kept its focus on effective business generation and was able to schedule in advance six thousand meetings that were held between buyers, travel agents and exhibitors.
WTM Latin America contents are available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Next event: 14 to 16 April 2025 – Expo Center Norte, SP, Brazil
WTM Africa launched in 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa. The event welcomes 6,000 travel industry professionals to Africa’s leading and only business to business (B2B) exhibition for both the inbound and outbound African travel and tourism markets.
Next event: 9 to 11 April 2025 – Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town http://africa.wtm.com/
About ATW Connect: Africa Travel Week’s digital arm, is a virtual hub packed to the seams with interesting content, industry news and insights, and the opportunity to hear from experts on a variety of topics in our new monthly webinar series. All with the aim to keep all of us in the travel and tourism industry connected. ATW Connect focuses on inbound and outbound markets for general leisure tourism, luxury travel, LGBTQ+ travel and the MICE/business travel sector as well as travel technology.
WTM Global Hub, is the WTM Portfolio online portal created to connect and support travel industry professionals around the world. The resource hub offers the latest guidance and knowledge to help exhibitors, buyers and others in the travel industry face the challenges of the global coronavirus pandemic. WTM Portfolio is tapping into its global network of experts to create content for the hub. https://hub.wtm.com/
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