Event Recap – What Happened At TBEX Travel Massive in Killarney

What happens when you host a paper plane competition at a travel blogging conference? Well, we found out a recently when we built a 20 metre runway and invited everyone from TBEX Killarney to join us.

First up – a big thanks to everyone who attended our Dublin chapter’s special Travel Massive at TBEX in Killarney recently. We had a blast hosting the biggest travel industry paper plane competition.

Here’s what it looked like… thanks again to Travelpayouts and IQPlanner for supporting our community.

The @travelmassive Event in full swing this evening! #TBEXIreland #lovekillarney #EIGTravel pic.twitter.com/5it8ERR3Ce

— Experience Ireland (@EIGTravel) October 4, 2017

Wine and great people, what else do you need? Partying the Irish way 🍀🍀#TBEXIreland #travelmassive pic.twitter.com/QhlOeBW8ud

— Veruska Anconitano (@LaCuochina) October 4, 2017

And the winners were…

Paper Plane Competition – Congratulations the Jarryd from @NOMADasaurus for winning the inaugural TBEX paper plane challenge – his plane reached 12 metres!

Congrats to the winner of the @travelmassive paper plane challenge – @NOMADasaurus #TBEXIreland pic.twitter.com/Dg3Seoo9FH

— Shane Dallas (@TheTravelCamel) October 4, 2017

The Airport Challenge – Congratulations to @thedutchtravelfamily for correctly guessing the airports in the Airport Challenge (the correct airports were – Doha, Hong Hong, Cork, Dublin, Shannon).

Victory tastes sweet. Won the airport challenge. #travelmassive #tbexireland #brehonkillarney #killarney #aiportchallenge #dingle #gintonic #familytravelblog #dutch #dutchblogger

A post shared by GezinOpReis/DutchTravelFamily (@thedutchtravelfamily) on Oct 4, 2017 at 12:31pm PDT

Special mentions…

A special mention to Lesley from TravelMedia.ie who engineered the best plane – it actually went all the way to the end of the room but unfortunately veered off course so was disqualified on technicality. 😂

Thanks to over 400 members who joined us.

It wouldn’t have been such a fun event without YOU – our community. And thanks to Kevin who helped out on the desk, Mark and Rod for runway-building skills, our chapter leaders who attended (and helped!) from around the world, and to Shane Dallas our airport judge.

Thanks again to Travelpayouts and IQPlanner for shouting drinks and Fáilte Ireland and The Brehon & Angsana Spa Killarney for hosting us. We had a ball!