NAJ Summit WEST: February 16-17, 2010, Sheraton Gateway LAX, Los Angeles, CA
NAJ Summit EAST: June 16-17, 2010, Holiday Inn Midtown, New York, NY
 
 
Testimonials from NAJ Summit West 2008, click here

OVERVIEW OF THE NAJ SUMMITS

Four years ago, North American Journeys “Blazed a New Frontier” with the introduction of the NAJ Tour Operator Summit in Los Angeles, providing suppliers, and destinations for the first time an efficient way to network and offer their products to West Coast-based tour operators.

Suppliers told us that it would take them two weeks to meet with the operators they were able to see in one day at the NAJ Summit. We were able to recruit at least one representative from every major receptive operator company because of our ongoing “informational” relationship with the operators through our website, www.thetouroperator.com, newsletter, Inbound, and bi-annual in-office training sessions . North American Journeys (NAJ) is hosting the 7th Annual NAJ TourOperator Summit-West in Los Angeles on Feb. 16-17, 2010.

NAJ Summit-East. At the request of many operator companies, we expanded to the East Coast with the 5th Annual NAJ Tour Operator Summit-East, June 16-17, 2010, Holiday Inn Midtown, NYC, in conjunction with our annual East Coast summer operator training sessions. In addition to the base of European and Latin American operators who have offices in NYC, we concentrate our tour operator recruitment efforts on Japanese and Asian companies who do not attend other travel trade events and on special groups and incentive staff who do not travel to Pow Wow and other trade shows but need contacts with destinations and suppliers to help them respond to proposal requests.

NAJ SUMMITS – A FORMULA FOR SUCCESS!
Tour Operators+Destinations+Suppliers (minus hassles and hype)=
NAJ Summit

Efficiently generate business: NAJ Summit attendees should be able to meet with at least 10-12 operators in one day, and even schedule follow-up appointments for later in the week.

Effectively build relationships: NAJ knows that the best way to get new products at the right price is through building strategic relationships. We purposely limit attendance to maximize networking and create the optimum negotiating environment.

Accurately develop your sales forecasts: NAJ Summit attendees will be privy to sales forecasts from key international inbound group and FIT drive markets.

Aggressively explore new selling opportunities: NAJ Summit brings tour operators looking for new product for their packaged travel clients face to face with a select group of suppliers and destinations with new and interesting products to sell.