A New Kind of Gathering for Canada’s Travel Trade.
Built as a festival of travel innovation, TravelPress Live! blends networking, learning, and discovery.
Over two days, you’ll move through immersive spaces designed for connection and idea exchange, featuring TED-style talks, fireside chats, and curated conversations. Between sessions, you’ll find culinary lounges, pop-up experiences, and creative engagement zones that make networking effortless and memorable.
Every detail is designed to spark new ideas, foster meaningful relationships, and showcase the future of the travel industry in an engaging, experiential format.
700+
Attendees
30+
Speakers
80+
Partners
20+
Activations
1000
Sparks of Inspiration
Connections That Count
Meet leading suppliers, destinations, and innovators — the people who can spark new partnerships and real business growth.
Experiences You’ll Remember
From immersive lounges to creative activations, networking feels natural, engaging, and fun.
Ideas That Shape the Future
Discover breakthrough products, fresh perspectives, and smart content that inspire and energize your work.
Agenda at a Glance
Registration & Badge Pick Up
Gathering in the Gardens Welcome Brunch
Begin your TravelPress Live! experience surrounded by nature at the beautiful Koerner Gardens at Evergreen Brick Works. The Gathering in the Garden Welcome Brunch brings the travel community together in a fresh, floral setting to reconnect, meet new colleagues, and set the tone for the days ahead.
Opening Remarks
Join us as we welcome the travel industry community to TravelPress Live!, setting the tone for two days of connection, learning, and opportunity. Attendees can expect a brief look at what’s ahead, the purpose behind the event, and how the industry can move forward together.
Spotlight Speaker: Trevor Lui, Chef, Restaurateur, & Storyteller
Food has become one of the most powerful ways travellers connect with culture, community, and place. In this dynamic keynote, award-winning chef, world traveller, author and storyteller Trevor Lui explores how culinary storytelling shapes destination appeal, influences travel decisions, and helps turn meals into meaningful reasons to visit.
How to Sell More with Tour Operators Right Now
A practical, insider look at how to sell smarter with tour operators, strengthen supplier relationships, and unlock stronger earning potential.
AI Power Tools for Travel Advisors: Automate, Market & Scale Your Business
Advisors who understand AI are gaining a powerful competitive advantage. In this deeper-dive session, we explore how experienced advisors are using AI to automate marketing, personalize client communication, analyze travel trends, and create highly customized itineraries at scale.
Refresh & Recharge
Take a moment to recharge, grab a coffee, and refuel before the next round of conversations and insights. The Fuel Up Break is your chance to connect with fellow attendees, stretch your legs, and prepare for the next session.
Cruising Beyond the Mainstream
From expedition voyages and small-ship luxury to niche themed sailings and emerging destinations, this session highlights where the strongest growth and highest commissions are happening. Learn how to match the right cruise style to the right client profile, confidently explain the difference between cruise categories, and spot the segments clients are upgrading into.
Turning Social Followers into Booked Clients
One post can create momentum, but only if it converts. In this fast, practical session, advisors and creators break down what actually turns attention into bookings: the content formats that sell, trust signals that shorten decision-making, and CTAs that consistently generate inquiries.
Women Who Lead: Mentorship, Community, and Building Your Circle
A female-hosted conversation that explores leadership journeys, mentorship, building your circle of influence, and how women can support and elevate one another as they navigate growth, visibility, and career longevity.
Opening Night Party
Morning Fuel UP
Start the day with great coffee, fresh breakfast bites, and meaningful conversation. The Networking Breakfast is a relaxed opportunity to connect with fellow travel professionals, share ideas, and set the tone for an inspiring day ahead.
Designing for Accessibility-Conscious Travellers
More travellers are seeking accessible travel experiences than ever before. Whether due to mobility needs, health issues, sensory sensitivities, or mental well-being. This session explores how to adapt your sales process, documentation, communication, and in-destination support to better serve accessible travellers and why doing this well builds loyalty, referrals, and deeper client trust.
State of the Industry: Advisor Perspective
A candid discussion where experienced advisors share what they’re seeing on the front lines of travel sales and how their businesses are adapting. Expect an open conversation about what’s working, what’s becoming harder to sell, how client behaviour is shifting, and where advisors are finding new opportunities for growth.
Activations & Experiences Open
The TravelPress Live! Show Floor is a dynamic, festival-style marketplace designed for connection, discovery, and business. Featuring destination showcases, supplier activations, networking lounges, and curated experiences, it brings the travel industry together in an energetic space built for real conversations and new opportunities.
Rebuilding Trust in a Shaky World
Selling travel is harder when everything feels uncertain — price increases, airline chaos, geopolitical tension, and climate disruption all affect buyer confidence. This session explores how agencies, tour operators, and destinations rebuild trust through transparency, proactive communication, and smarter expectation-setting.
1-2-1 Meetings Begin
Book individual one-to-one meetings with key event suppliers and advisors to maximize your time at TPL! And make sure you mix a little business in with your fun!
Spotlight Speaker: Adam Reid: Author, Producer, 2x Award Winning Canadian Entertainer of the Year
In a world defined by shifting expectations, emerging tools, and evolving audiences, change isn’t a detour — it’s the journey itself. This keynote reframes disruption as a creative companion, not a crisis, exploring how industries remain relevant when the environment around them keeps transforming. Through stories from media, culture, and global storytelling, Adam offers a grounded, optimistic perspective on adaptability, reminding audiences that those who thrive don’t wait for certainty — they design for motion. If change is the only constant, how intentionally are you choosing to move forward with it?
Let’s Talk About Money
Because commissions alone aren’t a retirement plan. This session focuses on what travel professionals can control: cash flow, investing, diversification, tax planning, and long-term security.
The New Luxury: Wellness, Longevity & Meaningful Travel
Luxury clients are redefining value, shifting from pure indulgence toward purpose, personalization, and wellbeing. This session explores the fast-growing intersection of wellness travel, longevity-focused experiences, and emotionally meaningful journeys, and how advisors can confidently position and sell in this evolving high-yield segment.
State of the Industry: Supplier Perspective
Tourism boards, cruise lines, tour operators, and travel partners are all navigating a rapidly evolving industry landscape. This panel brings supplier leaders together to discuss how their strategies are shifting — from marketing and distribution to advisor partnerships and product development.
Show Closes
Agents’ Choice Awards
A Venue Built for Engagement
Evergreen Brick Works
550 Bayview Ave,
Toronto, ON, M4W 3X8
TravelPress Live takes place at the iconic Evergreen Brick Works, a world-class community and event destination nestled in Toronto’s Don Valley. Surrounded by nature yet minutes from downtown, Evergreen Brick Works offers inspiring spaces, sustainable design, and a one-of-a-kind festival atmosphere.
EXPERIENCE THIS at TravelPress Live!
Immersive Gallery
The heart of the event: a central corridor styled with creative vignettes and brand moments that surprise and inspire. Perfect for strolling & discovery.
The Learning Lab
Fast, focused, and interactive. Step into a boutique-style space for quick-bite learning, product demos, and practical insights you can use right away.
Creative Networking
From the Puppy Lounge to Winery Way, to the Fireside Lounge, explore creative spaces built to spark conversation with a puppy snuggle or a toasty s’more.
Private Meeting Pods
When it’s time to get business done, our private meeting pods offer the perfect setting for focused, one-on-one conversations without distraction.
Culinary Pop-ups
Food becomes the connector, from food trucks and tasting stations to destination-inspired chefs and hands-on demos; every bite tells a story.
Epic Social Events
From the opening night party to the Agents’ Choice Awards Gala, Canada’s most prestigious night in travel, these are the hottest tickets in town.
Two Days, Endless Connections
One Unforgettable Event
TravelPress Live! is more than an event; it’s a catalyst for progress.
By bringing Canada’s travel trade together in one dynamic space, it creates the conversations, connections, and collaborations that move our industry forward.
This is where the future of travel in Canada takes shape, and where you’ll want to be part of it.
Join Us at TravelPress Live! and Discover A World of Travel Innovation