Travel agents affiliated to ABAV Nacional that participate in the 42nd ABAV - International Tourism Expo will be allowed to use the exclusive ABAV Agent VIP Room. Inaugurated in 2013, the room has increased in size and importance.

Its main feature are support services offered specifically to members, such as internet access, network access points, and catering services, in addition to a lounge and an area reserved for meetings. The same benefits will be extended to associates of ABAV’s partner entities Abeta, Abracorp, Aviesp, Belta, and Bito.

Another novelty for this year’s edition is an area next to the VIP room that will serve as a meeting point (pit stop) for travel agents traveling to the event in groups. This initiative and the new visual communication of the event, better identifying thematic spaces, favor the visitors flow in the Anhembi Exhibition Pavillion.

42nd ABAV Expo will be held from September 24 to 28, with exhibitors covering an area of 76,300 sq.m.. Considered the major international business expo of this industry in the Southern Hemisphere, it will promote networking, businesses, and the exchange of information and knowledge among 3,500 exhibitors, representatives from 65 countries, and 40,000 professionals.

Institutional Profile

The 42nd ABAV International Tourism Expo is promoted by the Brazilian Travel Agencies Association (ABAV Nacional), with the support of the Tourism Ministry, the Brazilian Tourism Institute (Embratur), the São Paulo City Government, and São Paulo Turismo (SPTuris), the city’s tourism and events company, which manages the Anhembi Exhibition Park.

An international partner of BTL (Bolsa de Turismo de Lisboa) and ITB Berlin, ABAV Expo, the largest and most important international travel and tourism business fair of the Americas is sponsored by the Brazilian Support Service to Micro and Small Companies (Sebrae) and the National Confederation of Goods, Services and Tourism Trading (CNC), which manages one of the world’s largest social development systems—the Commerce Social Service (Sesc), operating in the education, health, culture and leisure fields, and the National Commercial Learning Service (Senac), which is the leading professional education agent in the goods, services and tourism trading sector.