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Prof. Dr. Roland Conrady Since 2002, Prof. Dr. Roland Conrady has been a professor at the tourism/transport department of the Worms University of Applied Sciences. His research and teaching focuses on aviation, tourism and digitalization. Since 2004, Roland Conrady has also been the Scientific Director of the world's largest tourism convention, the ITB Berlin Convention. He was president of the German Society for Tourism Science (DGT) e.V. and is a book author (among others Conrady, R./Fichert, F./Sterzenbach, R., Luftverkehr, Munich 2019). Roland Conrady is a member of various advisory boards of companies and politics. Previously, he was head of the study program "Electronic Business" and Professor of General Business Administration at the University of Applied Sciences Heilbronn. After graduating as Dr. rer. pol. from the University of Cologne in 1990, he held various management positions at Deutsche Lufthansa AG until 1998.




David Ruetz (Head of ITB) has headed the ITB Berlin, The World's Leading Travel Trade Show®. Under his direction, ITB Berlin has seen many achievements, including the Innovation Award the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry (BTW). As part of the management of ITB, he was significantly responsible for the establishment of the ITB Asia in Singapore (since 2008) and also helped to introduce the ITB China in Shanghai (premiere in May 2017). After his studies in Zurich and Berlin, David Ruetz entered tourism and the event industry and joined Messe Berlin in 2001. He is editor, author, and co-author of numerous studies and books on trends and developments in the exhibition, travel and tourism industry, among others the annual World Travel Trends Reports. His interests include digitalization in the trade fair and event sector. As a guest lecturer he regularly works at universities in Germany and Austria and is also a member of the advisory board of R.I.F.E.L. e. V. (Research Institute for Exhibition and