Right from the very first month of this year, we have got multiple travel industry events lined up all throughout the year. These events offer great opportunities for people associated with travel industry as the decision makers, marketers and experts come together under one roof. Here are some of the events to look forward to this year:

#1- SATTE 2016

January 29-31, 2016 Hosted by UBM India, SATTE has always seen strong interest from industry players ranging from destinations to tourism providers. The event is expected to grow even bigger this year with increased participation from various international brands and increased number of business visitors. Along with the exhibition, there will be multiple conferences and discussions on the latest industry trends. Read more.

#2- OTM Mumbai

February 18-20, 2016 OTM is India’s leading travel show focused on outbound tourists. Mumbai is the biggest outbound tourist market in India and that is why OTM Mumbai sees strong participation from international players. TechForum@OTM is also a part of the exhibition which was initiated to cater to the growing number of travel technology sellers. The first Travel Startup Knockdown will also be hosted at TechForum@OTM. Read more.

#3- FICCI Travel & Hospitality Tech Conclave

March 18-19, 2016 India’s first exclusive event on travel technology, the FICCI Travel & Hospitality Tech Conclave is a must attend for travel tech brands. It will bring together global leaders and innovators making it a good opportunity for travel startups to network with the key stakeholders in travel industry. There will be multiple keynotes and panel discussions about the emerging technologies and trends. The second Travel Startup Knockdown will also be hosted as a part of the event. Read more.

#4- Phocuswright India

April 21-22, 2016 Phocuswright is travel industry research authority on how the travel brands and travellers connect and their events are an extension of their research. The Phocuswright events bring industry experts from the top travel brands together to connect. Phocuswright India will be their first event in India which will feature the travel innovation summit where the leading travel innovator of the year will be crowned. The event will also have various workshops that will offer an opportunity to learn about the hottest topics in travel. Read more.

#5- CXSRITE 2016

April 22-24, 2016 The Chine Xi’an Silk Road International Tourism Expo aims to explore and promote tourism and travel between China and rest of the world. China is a fast growing tourism market and with the increasing number of outbound travellers, almost all international travel brands are trying to cater to the Chinese travellers. The event is a very good opportunity for international players to network with Chinese brands. This year it is expected that the event will have around 500 exhibitors from 30 countries with approximately 4,000 trade and 50,000 public visitors. Read more.

#6- DIA Paris

May, 2016 The event was originally planned for January but had to be rescheduled. DIA- The Club 99 will have 99 delegates who will get a chance to participate in 3 conferences, 6 creative bar camps, 6 digital keynotes and 6 case studies. The event will focus on the market trends and how top leaders are performing in Asian travel market. There will be 30 digital experts from Asia and China outbound travel market. Read more.

We will keep updating the list as more events are confirmed for the year.

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After witnessing strong participation in the past events, UBM India is all set to host SATTE 2016 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 29^th January to 31^st January next year. SATTE gets strong interest from industry players ranging from destinations to tourism providers and everything in between and this year it is going to grow even bigger.

The exhibitors that have participated in previous iterations of the event include various international tourism boards like Hong Kong, South Korea and New Zealand. Various Indian tourism boards like Himachal Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand will be exhibiting as well. Some exhibitors like Changi Airport and Malaysia Tourism Board have decided to increase their stall space after the response in previous editions of SATTE. The new players of SATTE 2016 (23^rd edition) will be Kazakhstan, Georgia, Czech Republic and Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar and Telangana. This year we will witness stronger participation from international brands as they try to capitalise on the fast growing tourism market of India.

Last year, SATTE 2015 showed an exponential growth in the number of participants of the event. There was an increase of over 15% in terms of the show area and 50% increase in business visitors/business meeting requests. There were 650 participants from over 35 countries and 26 Indian states making it a huge success. The total number of travel trade attendees was 16,234 that included pre-registered and hosted Indian and international buyers. Apart from the conventional travel businesses, we will see increased participation from the new innovative startups that are coming up in the travel industry.

SATTE 2016 will be a good platform for businesses to exhibit their area of expertise, expand their network and find potential business partners. This event will prove productive for the attendees as it’ll be an opportunity for them to learn more about the travel industry and gain new insights on the same. There will be multiple conferences and discussions on the latest trends in the industry to help the brands and marketers in planning the way ahead.

SATTE team is actively promoting the event on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. India is growing to be one of the fastest travel and tourism economies of the world and SATTE is attempting to help the travel industry of India achieve that.

We are proud to announce that TravHQ is a media partner for the event. We will be bringing you all the interesting stories and updates from SATTE 2016.

If you are interested in exhibiting at SATTE 2016, you can register here.

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So then the first day of SATTE turned out to be an exciting one with number of conversations involving industry stakeholders. We have been waiting for SATTE for months because such events offer great opportunity to meet innovative people from the travel industry verticals. Day 1 witnessed an impressive level of participation from various businesses and visitor footfalls. Among the exhibitors were budget hotel aggregators, domestic and international destinations, travel agencies and few technology startups as well. Here is a photologue of some of the exhibitors from the event.

Detailed event report and fact-file will follow soon.

Vista Rooms is a budget hotel aggregator offering rebranded and standardised hotel rooms

Maharashtra Tourism had multiple representatives promoting different aspects of tourism in the state

The representative of J&K Tourism was very happy to share how the state plans on using social media to promote lesser known destinations in-order to boost tourism

The Tourism Malaysia representatives talked about their activities on digital to promote their ‘Year of festivals’

FXKart allows you to get foreign currency online with multiple dealers bidding to offer the best price

This was just a quick roundup of some of the exhibitors at the event. Follow our Twitter feed for the latest updates on SATTE.

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It has only been over a month since we made our public launch, but the journey has been quite an eventful one since we started. We have done live coverage of over 3 summits across India, Singapore & Hong Kong, have interviewed travel entrepreneurs and startups from countries such as US, Singapore, Japan, South Korea etc. Our Social communities have grown exponentially and in general we have received a very positive feedback from the entire travel community.

A Quick Rewind

Here is a round-up of some of interesting content that has been published on TravHQ.com so far:

Unique Gadgets & Travel Accessories to redefine Travel Experience: We believe that technology is deeply integrated in every aspect of travel and will continue to disrupt how we plan our trips and experience our journeys. We have curated an exclusive list of handy tech gadgets & accessories that will potentially redefine your travel experience.

Summary of our experience at the RISE Summit: We met a number of enthralling travel startups at the recently concluded RISE Conference in Hong Kong and this piece on some of their stories has generated a lot of interest among the startup fraternity.

Discover Turkey with MakeMyTrip: There have been a number of travel campaigns that we stumbled upon during the last month, but this unique campaign by MakeMyTrip to create awareness of Turkey as a destination deserves a special mention.

Opinions on Emerging Digital Travel Trends: We have been closely monitoring the emerging technology and how it will impact the Indian travel & hospitality sector. If that interests you, consider visiting our Opinions section for some thoughts on the same.

What’s Coming up?

With a rousing start, there are some really interesting activities that are lined up in the next quarter. Next week, our team heads to Mumbai for SATTE, where we’ll be meeting a number of businesses in the region’s biggest B2B Travel Festival. Watch out for our live updates from Aamchi Mumbai next week

We are also experimenting with different layers of content including video and are keen to start a YouTube feed where we will be publishing our conversations with travel marketers, startups and business decision makers. We are also contemplating some research on the key travel developments that are happening within the online space in the SEA region. So you should expect to see more infographics and opinions coming your way.

Most importantly, we are now looking to scale-up our team and are looking for a content expert. So if you have a passion for the travel industry and live by digital content, do give us a shout at info@travhq.com. If you are a travel brand and have an interesting story to share with us, write in to us at editor@travhq.com.

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After witnessing a strong participation at the New Delhi event, UBM India is gearing up for the SATTE event at Mumbai in August. The New Delhi event was hosted at Pragati Maidan from 29-31 January and attracted more than 650 exhibitors. The exhibitors included a wide array of travel brands from international & domestic tourism boards to airlines & hotels. The number of business visitors jumped by over 40 percent as compared to the previous year.

The western region of our country contributes to more than half of the outbound tourism so Mumbai is very crucial from tourism perspective. SATTE Mumbai West will be hosted on August 18 & 19, 2015 at World Trade Centre, Mumbai. The event is expected to have more than 100 travel trade exhibitors and play host to over 2000 visitors.

SATTE team is actively promoting the event via its Social Media Channels on Facebook & Twitter. The last edition had some interesting digital initiatives including a selfie contest where visitors where encouraged to share their selfie in-order to win an iPad. Mobile devices play an important role in facilitating conversations at such events as we experienced recently at the Echelon Summit (Read: This is what we loved the most at Echelon Asia 2015). We really hope organisers of events like SATTE take a hint and try to utilise the full potential of mobile devices.

According to the WTTC reports, India will be among the fastest growing Travel & Tourism economies. SATTE is supported by major travel trade associations and this event will be a great opportunity for industry professionals to network with prominent personalities associated with all dimensions of the industry. It would also be an opportunity for destinations & brands to showcase their services and products to the western travel trade community. There will also be conferences and discussions on the latest trends in the industry to help the brands and marketers in planning the way ahead.

You can find more details about the event here.

You need to be pre-registered to be a part of the event. You can register your interest to attend the SATTE Mumbai 2015 here.

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