POW WOW just concluded here in Orlando, and it was a huge success. Pow Wow is an annual convention where travel professionals from around the world get together and discuss the travel industry as a whole. The key for many vacation destination cities is to host one this great event. Why? Simple, it gives the host city an opportunity to showcase their city to travel professionals from around the world.

Here in Orlando the projected economic impact of having such event is estimated at $4 million to $1 billion. Now that is a lot of money! Many of the local Orlando hotels were able to show the travel professionals first hand why they should urge their clients to come to Orlando and stay at their hotel.

There was some really good news which came out of the convention. The majority of the travel professionals at the convention feel that the travel industry is on the rebound and most of them felt that Orlando one of the leading cities for which will show a drastic rebound in 2011.