A World Travel Market (WTM) Wednesday to Remember with Travel Massive, Hoppswap and NaviSavi
A big thanks to everyone from the community who joined the “Lose the Lanyard” event at Village Underground on World Travel Market (WTM) Wednesday. A terrific event with London Travel Massive, Hoppswap and NaviSavi, combining forces and communities to bring together a space to collaborate and make new friends.
After a long day with high step counts in the ExCeL arena, 200+ travel professionals swapped their lanyards for a drink and a bit of a boogie.
Frankly, we’re not sure which carriages were busier: Village Underground’s two repurposed old school Tube carriages or the Elizabeth line to and from Custom House.
We heard from Travel Massive founder Ian Cumming, who welcomed everyone and shared more about Travel Massive’s mission, as well as NaviSavi founder Sally Bunnell, who talked about some exciting new developments on the world’s leading travel video library.
To close the evening, Mo Shariff, co-founder of Hoppswap, spoke about the social home sharing and home swapping community and how the platform lets members travel affordably like locals, staying in each other’s homes with tips from the people who live there.
He also announced the winner of the Hoppswap competition. Congratulations to Sammy Rose, who goes home with five nights on the Hoppswap platform and a flight voucher to São Paulo. We hope you have a terrific trip!
We were also joined by Travel Massive chapter leaders Casey Mead (Melbourne), Thomas Bangert and Katina Moldovan (Bucharest) and Natalya Wissink (Vietnam).
A big thank you to Hoppswap and NaviSavi for supporting the evening, and to Village Underground and their friendly and exceptionally helpful staff for hosting us.
See you at the next event!
✌️ This recap was written by Charlie Kitcat from Hoppswap, a social travel community where members can swap real homes and host each other around the world. Learn more and join the community at hoppswap.com.
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People flew in from all over the world to stand on a cold rooftop in Shoreditch with us on WTM Wednesday. Some we’d only ever spoken to over email or WhatsApp, and some we’d never met at all.
The Hoppswap community keeps growing, and its nights like this that remind us we’re building it together. Here's a short video I made with highights from the evening (excluding late night karaoke!)
A huge thank you to everyone who came, and to Travel Massive and NaviSavi for helping make it such a class evening. Thanks as well to Village Underground for sharing the best space in Shoreditch with us.
Choo choo, baby.