The PTAA Travel Tour Expo was established in 1993 mainly as an annual market for Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) members for discounted travel deals which have grown immensely thru the years.

During those early years, it was for the sole purpose that PTAA members could have a platform to offer discounted domestic and international travel deals along with other travel related products and merchandize, but now, it is considered as the country’s biggest and the most awaited annual travel and tourism event.

Visitors number had also grown throughout the years generating a big sales volume for all the exhibitors consisting of Travel Agencies & Tour Operators, Airlines, Hotels & Resorts, Food Concessionaires, Theme Parks, Entertainment, Associations, Embassies, National Tourism Organizations including our own Department of Tourism, Cruise Liners, Shipping, Travel Insurance Companies, Travel Essentials, Foreign-based Travel Agencies & Tour Operators, and other travel related entities. Sales of exhibitors have also grown proportionately. Promotions of this event have also elicited a lot of support from media and thru our sponsors.

TTE Visitor Profile targets the Travel & Tourism Trade Practitioners; Corporate and Business Travelers; Holiday Travelers; Incentive and Convention Planners; Government and Business Leaders; Direct Buyers as well as Investors.

Briefly the PTAA Travel Tour Expo started 32 years ago in one of the halls of Megatrade in SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City occupying 1, 348 square meters of space. Every year it started to grow that by 2005, it occupied all the halls of Megatrade measuring 3,878 square meters. In 2006, TTE moved to SMX Convention Center and used 4,565 square meters of their floor space. By 2014, TTE occupied the whole ground floor and another exhibition hall in the second floor totaling 11,030 square meters of selling space. In 2015, TTE then occupied the entire SMX Convention Center except for one hall in the second floor. The total space is equivalent to 13,880 square meters. But then for the succeeding years, TTE has been occupying the entire Halls and Function Rooms of the SMX Convention Center which was only disrupted during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Year 2025 is a celebration of TTE’s 32nd Year, the “Beyond Borders!”, with more than 300 Exhibitors occupying 671 booths with a total space of 11,980 square meters. This milestone is in cooperation with the generosity and full support of the Department of Tourism (DOT); Tourism Promotions Board (TPB); Philippine Airlines; CITIBANK; AirSWIFT; United Airlines; PLDT; Hotel 101; Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA); and Guam Visitors Bureau. Other events to look forward to during the 3-day Expo are Raffle Draws, Corporate Game Shows, Entertainment, Exhibitors and Sponsors Presentations, Cultural Dance Competition, and Conferences.

Simultaneous with the TravelTour Expo is the conduct of 10th International Travel Trade Expo (iTTE) to be held in the same venue. The iTTE is an innovation that they added to TTE’s successful event in 2015. It’s a B2B travel trade mart devoted towards tapping the growing Philippine market for overseas travel exclusive to travel agents and tour operators to network with local and international travel-related suppliers.