LUXURY Leisure

International Trade Fair for LUXURY Travel
19-22 September 2012

LUXURY Leisure is Russia's only International Trade Fair dedicated to exclusive, wellness and medical travel. This trade fair accomplishs luxury travel buyers from all over Russia and the CIS countries with international luxury travel suppliers.

The exhibition is offering an expert platform for high efficiency networking. For international travel companies, tour operators, individual hotels, hotel chains, charter companies and cruise liners it is the best chance to enter the Russian luxury travel market, as it is very important to meet Russian partners in person and cultivate the business relationship.

In 2005 "SPA & HEALTH Conference" took place for the first time as a one day International Workshop and Conference. The history of "SPA & Health Conference" is a very successful one. The conference is held within the framework of LUXURY Leisure. The event is part of the outstanding parallel program and it constitutes an experts platform to learn more about global trends in spa & wellness technologies and the medical tourism industry.

Leading experts and practitioners from well-known foreign and Russian companies and industry associations take part in the conference year by year. They provid a very good insight into their business and discuss basic as well as current topics.

The international speakers of the SPA & Health Conference 2010 were the following well-known professionals:

Dr. Peter Varga, Professional Supervisor of VargaDent Dental Clinic, DMD, DDS, Oral Surgeon, Hungary
Stephan Ritter, Managing Partner of the Medical Wellness Management GmbH and CEO from The Leading Medical Wellness Hotels & Resorts GmbH, Germany
Monika Linhartova, Director of CzechTourism office in Moscow
Armand Muiznieks, Latvian Tourism Development Agency, MSc, MBA, The CIS countries Manager, Latvia
Lutz Lungwitz, President from the International Medical Wellness Association (IMWA) and Chairman of the German Medical Wellness Associaiton (DMWV), Germany
Petra Wiedmann, PW Consulting International, Managing Director, Germany

85 companies from 22 countries were represented at LUXURY Leisure 2010. The exhibiting companies originated from countries such as Austria, Belgium, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Maldives, Mauritius, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Seychelles, Singapore, Thailand, USA and Venezuela.

The venue of LUXURY Leisure is the International Exhibition Center Crocus Expo, which is a state-of-the-art exhibition center with free parking space for about 12,500 cars. Crocus Expo also offers the best possible technical opportunities and best services for exhibitors and visitors.

Since December 2009 IEC Crocus Expo is easy to reach from the city center by Metro. The new metro station "Myakinino / Мякинино" with direct exit to the pavilions was opened.