Digitisation has paved its way through the travel world, to emerge as the new reality to enhance and redefine the customer experience. The World’s Most Influential CMOs Report (2018) published by Forbes reveals how business leaders must embrace “digital transformation with a customer-first mindset.” Keeping in mind the proliferation of travel-tech industry in India, we are delighted to bring to you ‘Travel Technology Track 2019’ – an initiative by OTM & TravHQ to commemorate this revolution.

A gateway to India’s largest travel markets, OTM has been acclaimed as India’s leading travel-trade show and is showing its prominence across the Asia-Pacific region. As per statistics, around 50+ exhibitors from overseas countries, 25+ national tourism boards and 400+ hosted buyers had participated in the 2018 edition of OTM. OTM 2019 will be organized from 23-25 January at Bombay Exhibition Centre which will host qualified buyers from travel trade, business world and film industry from major cities across India.

Travel Technology Track at OTM Mumbai will showcase innovative travel solutions, panel discussions with industry thought-leaders and digital skill development workshops for travel trade industry – all under one roof.

Here are few highlights of the session:

• Industry Knowledge Panels – Featuring elite experts from India’s hospitality industry, travel agencies and OTAs
• Skill Development Workshops for Travel Industry: From decoding analytics to harnessing mobile platforms and many more
• Travel Innovator Showcase: 10 minutes dedicated presentation/pitching slot
• Sponsor branding opportunities across the OTM event
• Showcase your travel-tech offerings at APAC’s largest travel industry event

To participate, you can sign-up here. For sponsorship opportunities, visit this link.

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Have you been feeling the heat of competition? Is your travel and tour website losing critical leads? Are you looking for ways to position your travel agency on social media? Or are you looking at ways to make your website design more effective?

If the answer to one or all of the above is a resounding yes, then you might want to be part of two exciting workshops that we are bringing to you at this year’s Travel Technology Track at OTM, Mumbai.

The first workshop on ‘Design Hacks for Travel Companies’, will be led by Kaushal Karkhanis, creative strategist and travel blogger with two decades of experience in the designs solutions space. The session will primarily focus on understanding why design is good for your travel business, how travel websites can sell better with great designs, the importance of photos and videos to make the jump from interest to action and the plethora of design tools you can leverage to enhance your brand’s perception.

The second workshop on ‘Leveraging Social Media for Travel-Trade/MICE Industry’ will be led by Daksh Sharma, Managing Director at TravHQ Media and Iffort. This session will revolve around decoding content marketing strategies to promote destinations, importance of engaging with travel influencers, using travel-tech and promoting and positioning your travel agency on social media platforms.

This year, Travel Technology Track will also feature a host of panel discussions by industry speakers, along with an Innovator Showcase by leading innovators in the Indian travel space.

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The Travel Technology Track is an initiative by TravHQ & OTM to build a knowledge sharing platform and showcase innovative cutting-edge technologies in the travel sector. Hosted in Mumbai on 19th January 2018, the event aims to bring the thought-leaders and key decision makers of the travel industry under one roof to share best practices through insightful sessions and workshops.

In one of our sessions, some of the leading innovators in the Indian travel industry will be showcasing their solutions at the Travel Technology Track.

Tripshelf
Tripshelf connects tour operators with travellers looking for holiday packages. We aim to boost the online business of small and medium size tour operators, via digital marketing along witha set of specialised tools to enable them to transact online efficiently. We are doing this through automation, NLP based chat bots, machine learning, customer intelligence to calculate customer willingness scores, algorithmic online marketing and a passionate team of travellers.

Tralgy

Tralgy is a software platform which is established particularly for the travel and tourism industry and was founded in December 2014. It is a SaaS (software as a service) which increases the efficiency, reduces the cost and helps you increase your sales like never before. It strives to provide the best service and utmost satisfaction to travel agents all over the world.

EASA

EASA, is an end-to-end online solution for visa applications for Indian travellers, Travel Agents and Online Travel Agencies. With auto-completion of 70% of any visa form through previously stored customer data, up-to-date visa information, personalised customer data metrics, and document pick-up & drop-off services, EASA’s priority is to reduce anxiety with unmatched convenience & professionalism.

TOUREZEE.COM

Tourezee is a B2B Platform & Marketplace connecting the Traveler, Travel Agents, Destination Management Companies and their Local Suppliers by providing an INNOVATIVE DIGITAL End-2-End Solutions for Upstream (Quote Build & Compare), MidStream (Itinerary) and DownStream (Job Order, Financials and Ratings) activities.

Troliday

Troliday covers gap between Holiday takers and Online Travel Agents so as to reduce planning time/cost and to find perfect holidays for them. We intend to create a revolutionary platform which shall change the current scenario of holiday searching by creating a user friendly portal offering the unbiased comparison of Holiday packages globally.

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The rules of engagement for the travel industry have altered drastically in the last few years. Travel bloggers have fast become more influential than review websites for people looking to escape for a dream vacation to dreamy destinations. However, one thing that marketers and travel companies have a tough time cracking is how to tap into the vast array of influential bloggers for sponsored content, without discrediting their brand’s authenticity.

The Travel Tech Track 2018 holds all your answers. This initiative by OTM Mumbai and TravHQ to celebrate the growth of travel-tech industry in India, will have a bloggers panel that will help travel companies understand the nitty-gritty of influencer marketing. The panel will feature Roxanne Bamboat, food and travel features writer and blogger at The Tiny Taster; Kaushal Karkhanis, digital expert and travel blogger at Exotic Gringo; and Divyakshi Gupta, freelance travel writer and blogger at The Quirky Wanderer.

Roxanne Bamboat

Roxanne is an internationally-recognized writer based in Mumbai whose main interests are food and travel. She expresses her love for all things edible, along with all her travel tales on her blog. A freelancer, she spends most of her time sampling the city’s food offerings and reviewing them. Apart from her own website, she write for various publications and lifestyle websites about food and travel. She’s worked closely with various tourism boards, airlines and other hospitality partners on several projects and campaigns and has travelled extensively. She’s currently the chapter leader in Mumbai for Travel Massive, a global initiative to bring the travel community closer, and a curator for the Kalaghoda Arts Festival’s food vertical for the past six years. She’s also curated and hosted several events in the F&B space. Roxanne is currently the lead critic at Mumbai City for EazyDiner, a restaurant reservation site spearheaded by Vir Sanghvi.

Kaushal Karkhanis

Kaushal Karkhanis is a travel blogger and has been inspiring people for more than 18 years to ‘travel exotic & live simple’, via stories told through words, photos and videos on his blog. Kaushal is a creative strategist and travel blogger with two decades of experience in the field of design solutions and 10 years of travelling as a digital nomad. By consciously choosing a lifestyle that allows him to travel and work at the same time, he loves inspiring and helping others to travel to their heart’s content.

Divyakshi Gupta

Born in Punjab, brought up in Mumbai, Divyakshi Gupta spent all her summer vacations in a tiny town, nestled in the hills of Himachal. A self-confessed door lover, who has a penchant for architecture, she loves long road trips and travels to offbeat places to explore different cultures, meet locals, discover stories and in the process, herself. She started her career in advertising as a strategic planner, and is currently a freelance travel writer and blogger who narrates her stories on her blog, and also works as a social media consultant. Divyakshi was the first Indian travel blogger to be interviewed by WordPress.com. She has also collaborated with several travel portals, tourism boards and hospitality clients.

Are you ready for some interesting insights from an explosive session?

Ajay Awtaney

Ajay’s expertise over 20 years spans from investment management to mileage management. As a banker, then investment manager, Ajay first got on the pointy end of a plane in 2006 and was hooked to business travel ever since. On the road for more than 100 days in a year, he founded LiveFromALounge.com in 2011 in association with BoardingArea which is an international network of frequent flyer writers. Here, he shares insights on maximising value for luxury travel with miles and points for the global Indian traveller. He has also been a writer in the area of travel, lifestyle and technology since 1996. He currently writes for publications such as Conde Nast Traveller, National Geographic Traveller and GQ. Over the years, he has emerged as a pioneering voice focussing on aviation, loyalty and business travel for the Indian traveller, and his expertise has led him to work with many airline and hotel brands over the years.

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Over the years OTM has emerged as India’s leading travel-trade show and is now showing its prominence across the Asia-Pacific region. As per statistics, around 45 exhibitors from overseas countries, 33 national tourism boards and 443 hosted buyers had participated in the 2017 edition of OTM. OTM 2018 will be organized from 18-20 January at Bombay Exhibition Centre which will host qualified buyers from travel trade, business world and film industry from major cities across India.

We are delighted to announce our new partnership with OTM for this edition. Travel Technology Track is an initiative by OTM & TravHQ to celebrate the growth of travel-tech industry in India. The knowledge platform at OTM Mumbai will showcase innovative travel solutions, panel discussions with industry thought-leaders and digital skill development workshops for travel trade industry.

Here are few highlights of the Travel Technology Track:

• Industry Knowledge Panels – Featuring elite experts from India’s hospitality industry, travel agenices and OTAs
• Skill Development Workshops for Travel Industry: From decoding analytics to harnessing mobile platforms and many more
• Travel Innovator Showcase: 10 minutes dedicated presentation/pitching slot
• Sponsor branding opportunities across the OTM event
• Showcase your travel-tech offerings at APAC’s largest travel industry event

To participate, you can sign-up here. For sponsorship opportunities, visit this link.

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