3 days International Conference on Travel Technology India 2013 and its
seminars have added new value to the entire participants of Travel
Industry. The vote of thanks and response, feedback etc from persons and
companies belongs to
Kerala Tourism industry have proved that the
Seminar was a huge success and ICTT call it as its first season
conference and willing to organize better seminars which aims boost the
whole
Kerala Tourism industry. ICTT 2013 first conference held at Leela hotel, Kovalam during 7th to 9th June 2013 added new values to its delegates who came from various companies of Travel and Tourism Industry. International conference on Travel Technology India organized by Association of Tourism Trade Organizations, India (ATTOI) jointly with Tourism Department, Government of Kerala.
The International conference was inaugurated by Oommen Chandy, Chief Minister of Kerala. Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State to HRD, Government of India made the keynote address in the inaugural function, A P Anilkumar Tourism Minister of Kerala, Suman Billa IAS, Tourism Secretary to Government of Kerala were address the audience during the inaugural function. Felicitation speech were made by Subhash Goyal, President IATO, Mujeeb, President CKTI.
The international seminar provided seminar in 23 sessions including, Social Media Marketing in Travel and Tourism, Opportunities and Challenges in Tourism Marketing, Online marketing, Revenue Management and Business Intelligence, Generating leads and Conversions, Mobile application in Tourism Marketing, Pricing and Distribution, Revenue Management and handling competition, Future of Travel Technology etc.
International speakers like Selina Power, Social media specialist from Australia, Chad Wiebesick, Social Media Director, Michigan Economic Development Corporation, USA, Philip Calvert, Social Networking Entrepreneur, UK, were lead the sessions connected with Social media marketing in travel business.
Adam Franklin, Marketing manager, Bluewire Media, Australia lead the seminar sessions of online marketing in Travel and tourism Industry.
Tarun Lakhanpal, Lemon Tree Company, Shantanu Ghosh, Professor of Marketing and Social Media Coach and Suresh Babu, founder, Web Marketing Academy, India lead the seminar sessions connected with Revenue Management and Business intelligence.
Siddharthe Dabhade, Industry Manager, Google, India and Karthick Prabu General Manager Tnooz, India co-ordinated the seminar sessions connected with Mobile applications in Travel and Tourism Marketing.
Namrita Sehgal, Director of Internet Marketing, Taj Hotels Resorts, India and Bicky Carlra, Group President, TraVision, UAE lead the seminar sessions connected with pricing and distribution.
Seminar session connected with Revenue Management and Handling competition were conducted under the leadership of Avijith Arya, Founder and CEO, Internet Moguals India, Shiela Scarborough, writer and speaker specializing in Tourism, USA, Himmat Anad, founder, Tree of Life Resort, Jaydip Parikh, CEO, Tej Solpro, India.
Subhasish Ghosh, Aditi Technologies have given a great speech on Generating leads and Conversion to the delegates participated in International Conference on Travel Technology India 2013.
Sheila Scarborough, Tourism Marketing speaker, USA and Bicky Carlra, Group president of Travision UAE interacted with the participants of International Travel Technology conference ICTT 2013 about the future of Travel Technology.