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The 8th Annual International Wine Tourism Conference (IWINETC) was held in the province of Barcelona, Catalunya 5 & 6 April 2016. The 9th edition of the IWINETC will take place in Italy in 2017. Dates & venue TBA.
IWINETC is the leading global event for the wine and culinary tourism industry, held in grape escape destinations around the world. The 3 day event (2 day conference & 1 day Workshop) delivers thought provoking professional education, an extensive exhibition area to discover wine travel destinations and their wines, a focused business environment for tour operators to meet wine tourism experience providers and a chance to discover the wine tourism highlights of the host destination.
Conference Hightlights
Sicily venue for the International Wine Tourism Conference IWINETC 2017
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IWINETC 2016 – The Video
Closing chapter on IWINETC 2016 - It's been a great! Ce vediamo in Italia!
Conference Talks
Coming soon...
Industry leading speakers
Anthony Swift
Wine Pleasures
Carles Sala
SALA FERUSIC Architects
Carme Ribas
RECEVIN
Chelo Miñana
Enoturismo Castilla - León
Clara Antúnez Ferrer
NaturalWalks
Colin Harkness
Colin Harkness on Wine
Courtney Quinn
Path2Wine
Damià Serrano
Barcelona University
Evarist March
NaturalWalks
Gabor Banfalvi
Taste Hungary - Tasting Table
Gabriella Gónusz
Wine a’More Travel Agency
Hilarie Larson CSW,FWS
Northwinds Wine Consulting
Jaume Marín
Costa Brava Tourist Board Marketing Director
Jochen Erler
Circle of Wine Writers
Judith ‘deCabbit’ Lewis
deCabbit Consultancy
Julie Mahoney
Damncheeky Wines
Maria Alexandra Galbeaza
Cotnari Romania & The Association of Enotourism
Miquel Forns i Fusté
Barcelona Province Tourist Board
Mònica Molina
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Olivier Charriaud
Cité du Champagne Collet-Cogevi
Patrick Spencer
Cork Forest Conservation Alliance
Robin Barden
Edge Brewing
Sarah Jane Evans MW
Chairman Institute of Masters of Wine.
Sarah May Grunwald
Taste Georgia
Subhash Arora
Indian Wine Academy
Susan Lanier-Graham
Wander With Wonder & Luxe Beat Magazine
Thanasis Laskaratos
Greek Wine Roads
Vasco Santos
Fernando Pessoa University, Portugal
Xavier Espassa Añoveros
Catalan Tourist Board
Zaida Semprun
Wine Tourism Commercial Manager Grupo Freixenet
Zina Sorensen
Bulgaria Wine Tours
Sponsors & supporters
Host Region
Media Partners
Supporters
About the conference
IWINETC Photo Gallery 2016
Arrivals, 50 Great Cavas 2016 - The Tours & Welcome Reception
Opening Plenary Session
Conf...
IWINETC 2016 Catalunya – Article Directory
IWINETC 2016 Catalunya – Article Directory
Below is a list of article titles written by the IWINET...
Transfer from Barcelona Airport to IWINETC Venue
April 04th 2016
Once you have picked up your baggage, please go to the Catalonia Tourist Informat...
Networking Events
Networking is an essential and crucial part of your time at IWINETC. There are a number of food and ...
Exhibitors
Discover grape escape destinations from around the world in the exhibition area. Please keep checkin...
Registration 50 Great Cavas 2016 Wine Tasting Tours
Registered IWINETC delegates can now choose which of the 50 Great Cava producers of 2016 they would ...
Speakers IWINETC 2016
IWINETC is the place to gain business ideas and refresh your industry knowledge. Our carefully chose...
Accommodation
The Conference venue hotel is the Hotel Gio Centro Congressi located at Via R. D'Andreotto, 19 - Pe...
Accommodation
The Hotel Barcelona Golf Hotel is one of two official hotels for the event and both have a limited n...
Acreditación de Prensa
Los profesionales de la información catalana que deseen cubrir informativamente la ponencia de aper...
Agent Info
IWINETC Invited Agents have a unique opportunity to discover global grape escape destinations durin...
Cava & Penedès IWINETC Wine Tasting Tour
Discover the huge variety of grapes and terroirs in the Cava & Penedès wine regions stretching ...
Conca de Barberà & Tarragona IWINETC Wine Tasting Tour
Combine wine and architecture while discovering two of Catalonia's wine regions in the same day !
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Conference Programme
The definitive IWINETC catalogue is now available. This is an update to the previous catalogue and y...
Conference Programme
Conference Programme
Please click on the Conference Programme image on the right to view the t...
Conference Registration
Join around 300 wine and/wine & culinary travel professionals at the leading global internationa...
Daytime tours & evening events
Take advantage of your trip to Umbria and take some time out to relax and discover some of the many ...
Exhibit at IWINETC
Be one of the 30 global suppliers from the wine and culinary tourism industry and enter a world of b...
Wine Tourism Experience Providers
Below you will see a list of wine tourism experience providers building up ready for the Workshop on...
Past Conferences
With previous conferences held in Porto, Perugia, Zagreb, and Tbilisi – to name a few cities– th...
Press Trip
The IWINETC Catalunya Wine & Travel Press Trip will take place from 4th to 9th April 2016.
Wh...
Provider Info
IWINETC offers a cost effective one full day workshop* to connect and engage with tour operators and...
Venue & Travel
The 8th edition of the International Wine Tourism Conference, Exhibition & Workshop (IWINETC) wi...
Wine Tourism Workshop
The Wine Tourism Workshop will take place on Thursday 7 April 2016.
If you are a wine tourism pro...
Wines from the Balkans Grand Tasting
Caroline Gilby Master of Wine will be hosting the Wines from the Balkans Grand Tasting on Friday 15 ...
International Wine Tourism Conference (IWINETC)
Founded in Spain in 2009, the International Wine Tourism Conference (IWINETC) has now accommodated over 2,500 wine & culinary tourism professionals in 45 different countries throughout the world. Though opportunities for international networking, professional development, and world class industry information you will find that our conferences and workshops offer unique ways to discover grape escape destinations around the world. IWINETC is the destination for those involved in wine, gastronomy and tourism. So come along and share your point of view and gain from the experience of others.
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