Live Tourism’s Biggest Operators Are Confirmed. Are You in the Room?

Live Tourism’s Biggest Operators Are Confirmed. Are You in the Room? The people who decide where live demand lands, who captures it, and how it gets sold are speaking in one closed room in New York on September 22. The tourism authority that turned Las Vegas into standing economic infrastructure is on the agenda. So is Live Nation, the company routing where the next live moment goes. The room they are speaking to is capped, and few seats remain. That is the pitch for the Skift Live Tourism Summit, presented by Live Nation. The roster is the test of whether a room can resolve what it convenes to decide, and this one is now confirmed. Who’s Speaking at Skift Live Tourism Summit Live tourism has no single owner. A concert booked by a promoter becomes a routing decision, then a destination’s readiness problem, then a booking on a platform, and no one player sees the whole chain. This agenda puts that chain on one stage, and each session is a call the industry has yet to close. - Steve Hill, CEO and President, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Leah Chandler, CMO, Brand USA, and Achraf Fayda, CEO, Moroccan National Tourism Office, open on what live events deliver economically, the durable impact against the one-weekend spike. - Angela Val, President and CEO, Visit Philadelphia, and Kenny Sham, Global Events Head & GM, Hong Kong & Macau, Klook, take up what a destination needs ready to capture value across the full destination, not the venue alone. - Paul Caine, President, On Location, leads on where the friction gets removed, so a traveler books an experience instead of a dozen disconnected pieces. - Framing the demand side across those sessions are Russell Wallach, Global President, Media & Sponsorship, Live Nation, and Charlie Walker, Partner, C3 Presents, who decide where live moments go in the first place. The agenda also includes new Skift Research on where the value lands and the closed-door roundtables. The Seat is the Constraint The room is capped and the guest list curated. Attendance is reserved for senior leaders shaping how live moments move travel, destinations, and economic growth across destinations, hospitality, aviation, sports, entertainment, venues, and the public sector. These leaders set the agenda. If live demand is already reshaping your market, the question is whether you are in the room when they work through it or reading about it afterward.