Last week we were at the OTM Forum 2019 in Mumbai, which is among the top rated travel tech events in India. This year’s event focussed on innovative business strategies and emerging technologies in the travel industry. This year’s forum curated by TravHQ in association with OTM team witnessed some of the hottest names in travel from Facebook, Kayak, Twitter, Booking, Lonely Planet, Indigo, Air Asia, National Geographic Expeditions, Jio Studios and many more.
The Panel on Digital Marketing and Social Media in Travel: Featuring Rachit Uppal, Head of Industry (India & South Asia), Twitter, Saurav Chakraborty Industry Manager (Travel), Facebook India, Abhijit Mishra Director, India & Middle East, Kayak and Girish Singh Head of Marketing APAC, Uber for Business and Daksh Sharma from TravHQ
The Panel on Influencer Marketing and its Role in the Travel Path-to-Purchase featuring Hitesh Rajwani, Sharanya Iyer, Priyanka Chandola, Ajay Awtaney and Varun Vagish
The Panel on Opportunities in Indian aviation – Making it big in the world’s most challenging aviation market featuring Chetan Kapoor Research Analyst – Asia-Pacific, Phocuswright Inc., Rajkumar Paranthaman Head of Marketing – India, AirAsia, Raj Sivakumar Senior Vice President – Network & Revenue Management, Jet Airways, Salim Khan Chief Security Officer (Specialist) – India, Emirates and Nitin Sethi – Vice President Digital @ Indigo
Naveen Perla COO, JetSetGo, Ruchi Lahoti Area Manager – India, Booking.com, Maitreyee Das Banerjee, Head of Marketing, Keys Hotel (Berggruen Group) and Todor Gerovski COO, 15toGO with Daksh Sharma in the Panel on How Millennials will Travel in 2019
The Panel on Future of Travel Content Marketing featuring Sesh Seshadri General Manager, Lonely Planet India, Abraham Alapatt President & Group Head – Marketing, Thomas Cook India, Bhawna Grover Head of Content, GoIbibo, Daniel Cheng Founder & President, RTM – Redefine Tourism Mixer and Daksh Sharma from TravHQ
Stay tuned as we bring you more updates, highlights and videos from the proceedings in OTM Forum 2019