ABAV Nacional has just announced that press professionals can now register to cover the 42nd ABAV International Tourism Expo. Professionals can register online on the event’s website up to September 10. After that date, registration can be made at the event’s office located near the entrance of the Anhembi Exhibition Pavillion, in São Paulo.

Registration is exclusively for journalists that can prove they work for one or more communication vehicles—newspaper, magazine, radio station, TV stations, website/portal, or blog—or for media relations companies providing services for companies and/or entities participating in the event.

During the five days of the event, selling ads or any other type of advertising space, including merchandising or advertorials, is prohibited under penalty of being permanently unregistered from the event.

Press Office

All professionals registered as press or media relations will have free access to the Press Room and can use the available work infrastructure. The Room’s working hours will be 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from Wednesday (7/24) to Sunday (7/28). Professionals can access the event using the Pavillion’s entrance hall.

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.