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Travel Agents, Destinations and Suppliers Come Together for an
Exclusive, Educational, Networking Event

Milford, CT - February 19, 2010 - Unicomm LLC, producers of the established Travel & Adventure Shows and the Green Travel Summit™, announced today its plans to launch the Travel + Destination Symposium™, a ground-breaking event focused on destination selling and strategically designed to connect the U.S.’s top-producing travel agents with worldwide destinations and suppliers.

The event, scheduled to take place September 27-28, 2010 in Palm Springs, California, is expected to draw over 800 to 1,000 top producing travel agents and 200 destinations and suppliers. The Italian Government Tourist Board has joined the event as a Gold Sponsor and Florida Keys and Key West as a Silver Sponsor.

The Symposium, with its formula of top-producing agents, high-caliber education, and intense one-on-one networking, will create a tremendous occasion for all the stakeholders to collaborate, to accelerate tourism revenues and create new business opportunities.

“Through our extensive research, we found there was an abundance of events for agents that covered professional development, accreditation, marketing and selling strategies, but there was not a high-end destination and travel niche conference and networking forum where top-producing agents could concentrate on destination selling and make business connections in a one-on-one environment,” said John Golicz, CEO, Unicomm LLC. “After surveying over 300 top-producing agents and presenting the idea to key destination partners, the decision to launch this event became a simple one, as each stakeholder expressed a need for this type of event in the United States,” continued Golicz.

“Palm Springs is delighted to host the premier Travel + Destination Symposium. It is a unique opportunity for us to assemble the top travel agents in North America,” said Mary Jo Ginther, Director of Tourism for Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism.

The Symposium’s unique hosted agent program will position the event to attract the top-producing agents through an extensive pre-qualification process. Selected agents will be fully hosted by the Symposium provided agents conduct a set amount of pre-selected appointments with participating destinations and suppliers.

The educational format will be a combination of travel economist general sessions, detailed presentations examining the opportunities and future trends of emerging domestic and international destinations, and PIVOT Sessions SM, which will lead attendees through the hottest travel niche trends.

For more information, visit the event’s website at www.destinationsymposium.com.

About Unicomm Unicomm LLC is an independent business-to-business communications company specializing in conceiving and managing trade shows and conferences. Unicomm currently produces the largest series of travel events in the United States; the Travel & Adventure ShowsTM with Adventures in Travel ExpoTM (adventureexpo.com) and the Green Travel SummitTM. (greentravelsummit.com). Unicomm’s Entertainment Group also produces the 3D Entertainment SummitTM (www.3D-summit.com) and 3D Gaming SummitTM (www.3Dgamingsummit.com) and has developed leading events in the Bio-Technology, Research & Development and Mechanical Engineering, Human Resources and other markets. The company’s "value-added" resources are the intellectual capital of its people and proprietary business practices.