Global Travel Marketplace (GTM), a boutique trade show hosted by Travel Weekly, opened for its fourth annual renewal on Monday at the Diplomat Resort in Hollywood, Fla.
The show runs through Tuesday afternoon.
The conference features a group of 115 agents who were chosen from more than 600 applicants. Each agent did at least $1 million in sales in the past year.
Over the course of the two days, the agent attendees engage in a series of six-minute appointments that they arrange from among the 120 suppliers in attendance.
The suppliers don't have booths, but instead rotate around the conference room to meet agents who remain at an assigned table.
Small group-supplier presentations as well as larger presentations during breakfast and lunch are also part of the itinerary for the conference.
Jan Paytas, owner of the World Wide Consolidated Travel Service agency in the Philadelphia suburb of Malvern since 1976, said GTM is one of the best conferences that she has been to over her career.
"I am learning so much," she said. "They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but you can."