The world of high-end tourism continues to reawaken with the successful debut of DUCO France last week in Paris, France. Representatives from more than 120 of France’s most important high-end hoteliers and travel suppliers, including icons of French hospitality, along with the most elegant boutique properties with city, countryside, mountain and seaside locations met one-on-one with 130 of the world’s top English-speaking travel advisors and travel specialists who focus on France.

DUCO Travel Summit will host its first annual DUCO France destination-oriented travel event in Paris from 11-15 October. Following the significant success of its sister event, DUCO Italy, the DUCO team has expanded to add this annual invitation-only niche French initiative, focused on the high-end travel industry in France.

Carolina Perez is well known to the luxury travel trade. She started São Paulo’s Travel Week, which she sold on to ILTM parent Reed. New baby, DUCO, looks like being even more successful. For one thing it is, unlike most other hospitality events, destination focussed. The second annual DUCO, April 1-5, 2019, and once again in Florence, saw 265 exhibiting hotels and resorts, all in Italy: of the total, Leading Hotels of the World had 58 properties represented, Relais & Châteaux brought along 38, Small Luxury Hotels of the World numbered 22, and Preferred Hotels and Resorts 12.