Here’s the good news: The annual Mountain Travel Symposium will return to Vail for the first time since 2008. The less-good news: The event will return in 2022.
The symposium is a combination of business networking and education. Ski groups from around the world come to the symposium, along with vendors who want to do business with those groups.
Mountain Travel Symposium Content Director Catherine Shaw said the symposium will often bring 1,000 people or more to a destination. Organizers rotate the symposium between resorts.
The 2008 symposium, held at what was then the Vail Cascade, packed big and small meeting rooms. There were seminars and parties, including a concert in Lionshead by Super Diamond, a Neil Diamond tribute band.