ILTM convenes the global luxury-travel industry through a year-round calendar of invitation-only events, including ILTM Cannes, ILTM Asia Pacific, ILTM North America and ILTM Latin America. Together, they form the sector’s most influential meeting ground for hotel groups, destinations, travel designers and media.
Spotlight has been an integral component of the ILTM team since 2009. Their contribution to our overall strategy is critical to us, but testament to their real value is the ongoing enthusiasm from the top journalists from across the world that they secure to attend each ILTM event, year after year.
– Alison Gilmore, Portfolio Director
Since 2009, Spotlight has worked alongside ILTM to develop its international communications strategy, beginning with ILTM Cannes and expanding across the portfolio as the brand’s influence grew.
The remit centres on identifying and attracting the editors who shape how luxury travel is reported worldwide — ensuring each event is positioned not simply as a trade gathering, but as a barometer for where the sector is heading.
At every event, Spotlight designs tailored media programmes that bring the industry’s most newsworthy developments into view — from emerging destinations and new hotel concepts to long-established brands redefining their next chapter.
Journalist itineraries, one-to-one meetings and agenda-driven briefings are structured to give editors access to the conversations that matter, rather than surface-level introductions.
Long-term relationships across consumer, trade and business titles allow Spotlight to introduce ILTM to the writers whose work influences both traveller behaviour and industry reputation.
That network spans print and digital, freelancers and staff correspondents, and markets across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East — ensuring each edition of ILTM attracts genuinely decision-shaping media.
Year-on-year engagement translates into global coverage for ILTM events and their exhibitors, extending well beyond show floors and opening-day headlines.
In 2023 alone, Spotlight activity delivered combined international reach of more than five million, alongside editorial value exceeding £20 million — reinforcing ILTM’s position as the central stage for luxury-travel dialogue worldwide.
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– Doug Gollan, Forbes
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