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Buyer Selection Criteria

All Buyers registering to attend SPTE 2024 and conduct business with the Pacific tourism industry, must demonstrate in their application that they comply with following selection criteria. 

  1. Qualify as one of the buyer types:
    • Retail and wholesale company
    • Online travel company
    • Inbound Tour Operator (ITO) or Destination Management Company (DMC)
    • Online B2B company
  1. An invited buyer must be a senior decision maker, product manager, contract manager or retail agent.
  2. Demonstrated commitment to work with the Pacific tourism industry to package and sell Pacific Island tourism products and experiences with the international markets. Additional details may be requested to support your registration.

Please note:

    • Your nominated representative/s including any additional delegates must be directly employed or contracted by you. 
    • SPTO reserves the right to ask any delegate to provide evidence they are directly employed by the company. Where it is identified that a nominated representative is not a direct employee of the exhibiting company prior to the Event, the delegate will be cancelled from the company’s application.
    • Requests for additional buyer delegates are reviewed on a case-by-case basis and are subject to SPTO’s approval.
    • In countries where licensing of general sales agents, wholesaler and retail travel agents is government regulated, proof of a valid license number must be provided to SPTO on request.
    • SPTO retains the right to determine, in its sole absolute discretion, whether any particular applicant, or any employee, agent or representative of any applicant should attend, to reject any application for any reason whatsoever, or for no reason at all. Applicants acknowledge that there is no obligation whatsoever on SPTO to approve applications and that SPTO may reject any applicant, or any employee, agent or representative of any applicant, with or without reason.

For clarification or enquiries, please contact the SPTE Secretariat at spte@spto.org