PANEL DISCUSSION 1: THE FUTURE OF ONLINE TRAVEL AND CONSUMER TRENDS

  • How do Indian consumers buy travel today and how fast is this changing?

  • What does the future of online travel in India hold? What are the key trends and predictions to watch?

  • How does the Indian online travel market differ from other countries?

  • What are the key factors to retain the online customer?

    Session Moderator
    Deep Kalra, Founder & CEO, Makemytrip.com

    Panelists
    Sanjay Aggarwal, General Manager (Operations), IRCTC
    Lalit Sheth, Chairman & Managing Director, Raj Travels
    Mudit Khosla, Founding GM, Yatra Online
    Anupama Salvi, Director - New Business Development, Avenues India Pvt Ltd

    Panel Discussion

PANEL DISCUSSION II: NEW MARKETING STRATEGIES AND DEMAND GENERATION FOR CREATING GREAT CONSUMER ENVIRONMENTS ONLINE

  • How can travel companies embrace the social networking trend?

  • What are the various online Demand generation methods?
  • What is the latest thinking on dynamic packaging? What are the business and technology challenges? And how can travel companies yet to embrace it get involved?
  • How to educate consumer on beneficial deals and packages on booking online?
  • How easy for the customer to plan travel online?
  • Booking online! Just not about low rate tickets - Its Value additions and bundling of services what matters?
  • How to do a better Demand management without commoditizing the travel industry?

    Session Moderator
    Ram Badrinathan, PhoCuswright Inc.

    Panelists
    Mahesh Murthy, Managing Director, Pinstorm Technologies
    Emmanuel Phillips, Senior Consultant - Business Relationship Management, Cox & Kings
    Ashok Lalla, Director Internet Marketing, Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces
    Gulshan Verma, Head of Sales Strategy, Yahoo! India

    Panel Discussion

PANEL DISCUSSION III: TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY - TO ACHIEVE BUSINESS GOALS

  • What are the latest trends and technologies that any self-respecting travel business should be prepared for?

  • What are the key applications that will drive mobile travel in the future?
  • Gain insights into how websites are changing and how you can affordably turn your online presence up a notch or in terms of its functionality, performance, navigation and content.
  • For the small and medium-sized operator what's the best system for you? Can you afford it? Where's the payback?

    Session Moderator
    Haranath Lokanadham, President and CEO, Ticketvala.com

    Panelists
    Bruno Goveas, Head Marketing & Product Management (India), Akamai
    Manu Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer, ANM Soft
    Amarendra Kumar Jha, Sr Vice President - Sales, Marketing & Client Services, i2i Telesource
    Rahul Joshi, Head Pre Sales - Asia, Travelport GDS
    Gaurav Chiripal, Chief Executive Officer, Quadlabs

    Panel Discussion

PANEL DISCUSSION IV: EVOLVING TRAVEL DISTRIBUTION IN INDIA - A KEY FORCE

  • How has Travel Distribution changed in India?

  • How to Adopt a multi-channel approach?
  • What are the means to Balance and integrate offline and online sales?
  • How to Customize distribution methods for different markets?

    Session Moderator
     Amitabh Pandey, President and Head eBusiness, Thomas Cook

    Panelists
    Dinesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO, IndiaMart InterMesh
    Himanshu Singh, Chief Executive Officer, Travelocity
    Shaun Dubash, AVP Business Development - Hotels, Travelguru

    Panel Discussion

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