Online Travel 3.0 Conference

With a new generation of travelers growing up in Russia, Russian online travel agencies (OTAs) need strong marketing efforts to change people’s habits.

Russia is experiencing a significant increase in online travel, one of the four key global emerging markets. Russia is showing greater growth in it than the developed world and already enjoys a substantial share of global online travel consumption.

Russia is now at a crucial point in terms of travel development being transformed into a dynamic and unique marketplace.

With the largest Internet audience among all European countries and a fast growing affluent middle class, the Russian travel market is rapidly moving online.

The conference mission is to bring together online travel players who wish to secure their place on the online travel market, to position their company in the right way, adapt a winning strategy and learn to take advantage of the new marketing instruments.

The conference program is designed to reflect the latest online trends and to meet the most valued industry expectations and demands.

KEY ISSUES INCLUDE:

• Online landscape in Russia: how is it changing?
• Start-up trends in Russia
• Online ancillary services
• Investing in emerging travel markets
• Future of payments and mobile e-commerce
• How are social media & mobile apps influencing the online hospitality sector?
• How can you target travelers online?
• How to make life easier for millions of travelers
• Strategies for transforming the travel marketplace in Russia with new products and services
• Business intelligence tools in travel distribution

These and many other issues will be the business of the day at plenary sessions and panel discussions.

SPEAKERS

Speakers at Online Travel 3.0 are acknowledged international and Russian market experts, OTA CEOs and experts, meta search systems, social travel planners and online hotel booking companies, travel start-ups, social media, online insurance and car rental companies, travel industry leaders and IT providers that will add exceptional value to communication and networking at the conference.

Online Travel 3.0 will be held on September 26-27, 2013 at InterContinental Moscow Tverskaya.

Conference attendees will have a chance to experience the value of sharing the best practices with advanced business strategists and experienced market practitioners.

The Online Travel 3.0 conference is an ideal meeting and networking ground organized for high level attendees that will add value to uniquely effective marketing opportunities.

The conference is organized by ATO Events in cooperation with PhoCusWright.

Head of Project:

Olga Feoktistova

E-mail: o.feoktistova@ato.ru

Mobile: +7 (964) 539-8250

Project Coordinator:

Maria Tsareva

E-mail: m.tsareva@ato.ru

Mobile: +7 (965) 118-6922

Phone: +7 (495) 626-5329

Fax: +7 (499) 245-4946