Organizers

Artyom Polanskiy

Artyom Polanskiy has gained significant experience in marketing and sales for international hotels on the CIS market – both as part of an international marketing company, and as a general sales representative for international hotel chains. This work included organizing major marketing events for international clients and facilitating the implementation of successful marketing and sales campaigns for internationally recognized hotel groups. With over fiftheen years of experience on the CIS travel market, Artyom has extensive contacts with agents, corporate clients and the press.

Travel Media

Travel Media was one of the first companies in CIS to provide marketing services to well-known international hotel chains, tourist offices and major companies; helping foreign partners gain a foothold on the emerging CIS luxury travel market. Since beginning operations in 2002, Travel Media has become the marketing and PR agent in the CIS for several leading international chains, DMC and tourism offices. Travel Media has also launched one of the world's most luxurious cruise companies on the CIS market, introducing clients to the Silversea style of life.

Travel Media offers its clients a full range of services, including market research, strategic planning, organization and execution of exhibitions and seminars, PR support, organization of press conferences and also publication of all types of printed products. The fact that the prestigious tourism publication Travel Trade Gazette is one of Travel Media's long-term strategic partners means that the company is able to guarantee its clients professional coverage of their services and corporate news.

Elena Vetrova, the General Director of Travel Media, is one of the brains behind and the organizers of the Luxury Travel Mart. With enormous experience of Russian tourism since 1996, Elena is rightfully considered to be a leading expert on the hotel business, and in the strategic planning of marketing campaigns, and she provides consulting services to many international hotel groups, tourism offices and private companies trying to launch and promote their brands on the Russian market, and to optimize their expenditure. Several well-known international brands have been launched on the Russian luxury services market as a result of Elena's professionalism.