Impressions
It was a pleasure to present and share TravelPort’s view of the chaining travel tech landscape and understand some more about what an amazing growth engine the Indian market already is and will become in the coming years…
Jason Nash
Chief Story Teller, Travel Port
This year’s FICCI Digital Travel, Hospitality & Innovation Summit was a valuable event that provided a great meeting ground for diverse entrepreneurs from the digital travel technology space. As the demands of today’s ultra-connected traveller evolve and increase, Travelport is at the forefront of connecting travellers to a world of travel choice and FICCI’s focus on digital innovation and its impact on tourism is particularly significant to Travelport as we are continually transforming our unique platform to power technology solutions for the global travel industry.
Matthew Powell
Managing Director, Middle East and South Asia, Travelport
“Well organised with all the relevant stakeholders involved in thoughtfully curated and stimulating discussions!”
Deep Kalra
Group Chairman & CEO , MakeMyTrip
“The Travel & Hospitality Tech Conclave organised by FICCI was a great platform to connect with the industry. Technology is definitely a game changer for hoteliers and travel aggregators . Focussed session such as these organised by FICCI helps bring together the best of the industry to showcase and discuss the latest trends in technology. It was great meeting with industry leaders, sharing knowledge and learning at this forum.”
Zubin Billimora
Director, Global Sales , RezNext Global Solutions
“FICCI THTC 2016 was a great place to be to get a quick inside view of how technology is impacting and shaping the travel industry – and a view that was curated by leaders from travel companies across the spectrum. Wish the conference all the best for their future editions.”
Nikhil Ganju , Country Head , TripAdvisor India
“It was indeed an eventful two day of well-organized event, Tourism has become an important sector that has an impact on overall development of country’s economy. By organizing the much needed event FICCI has played an anchor role by bring the Travel & Hospitality industry people together @ Travel & Hospitality Tech conclave at Federation House New Delhi.
Let me take a moment to thank you and your team for making it such a worthwhile experience. I know it was not at all easy, it is sheer dedication, focus and planning which made the two day event memorable. The interaction were timed well and were relevant and very helpful. I especially liked the time management and the sequence of planned agenda, the panelist, the speakers for their insight, experience and sharing few case study.
Thanks once again for making the conference so worthwhile.”
Dr. Sanjay Pai
Head Travel & Director Aviation
Larsen & Toubro
“The First Travel & Hospitality Tech Conclave , 2016 organised by FICCI was perhaps one of the most valuable events for the entire industry. Industry leaders from Travel Technology, Corporate Travel, Aviation and Private Equity domains providing their expert inputs on all aspects of the business and opportunities to the very informed audience will surely help the industry achieve greater success”.
Rajiv Kr Vij
Managing Director & CEO
Carzonrent India Pvt.Ltd.
“The THTC 2016 was a great initiative by FICCI to get together industry leaders and experts to discuss relevant and contemporary subjects. The programmes were well thought through and the event was impeccable organised.
World over the travel industry has always been an early adopter of cutting edge technology. In India as well, new age travel companies have been aggressive in adopting new technologies. I was pleasantly surprised to meet and hear so many new entrepreneurs and their attempts at innovation. The environment is ripe for new technologies to shape the future of our industry and events like this sure help.
I encourage FICCI to continue to support the Travel & Hospitality vertical.”
Deepak Mavinkurve
Founder & CEO
RepuFact
“The industry’ finally witnessed an offline event With LinkedIn and Facebook influencers from accross The hospitality industry , whatever said and done . Having everybody under one roof was magic. The event has set the bar high for events accross india . Only because speakers and moderators all were game changers . And the audience took away actionable ” to dos . That could help their business make huge positive changes in the next 90 days.“
Avijit Arya
Chief Moghul
Internet Moghuls
“The quality of co-panelists & attendees both was quiet impressive in most of the sessions & was a perfect setting for an excellent exchange of thoughts & ideas.”
Harish Bahl
Founder & CEO , Smile Group
“With Travel Tech Conclave, FICCI has identified an area of rapid evolution after years of non adoption of technology by the Industry. Technology is suddenly disrupting and making redundant new processes even before they are implemented. The speakers and subjects picked by the conclave gave the attendees a deep perspective of the leading thinkers and the audience in turn raised some terrific questions. All in all a leading event in the space with lots of eureka moments.”
Prashant Rao Aroor
CEO & MD
IntelliStay Hotels Private Limited
“The conference provided a great meeting ground for diverse entrepreneurs in travel technology space, from core booking systems to customer experience as well as payments and financial technology domains.”
Alok Mittal
Angel Investor, Co founder & CEO, Indifi Technologies Pvt Ltd
“It was awesome to see India’s travel industry converge, with focussed discussions and insights from every session. Would love to be a part of future events.”
Aashish Chopra, Head – Content Marketing, IXIGO
“As India’s hotel owners face the challenges of harnessing tomorrow’s technology, FICCI’s Travel and Hospitality Technology Conclave was a timely and relevant forum in which many of India’s leading indigenous technology solution providers showcased the country’s spectrum of homegrown hospitality technology innovations.“
Abhijit Beej Das, President & CEO, Boston East India Hotels
It was a great platform for exchanging views on technology and consumer behaviour trends and also interacting with industry experts with different vantage points.
Rakshit Desai
Managing Director
FCm Travel Solutions India
FICCI Travel & Hospitality Tech conclave 2016 did a fantastic job at bringing together a perfect mix of seasoned, engaging speakers as well as valuable networking opportunities. An event dedicated to supporting travel tech is a perfect fit for Amadeus and we look forward to the next one!
Bart Bellers
Senior Advisor Corporate Strategy
Amadeus Asia