Online meets traditional at TTI`s Spring conference. Speakers from amongst the largest online travel businesses and the…
Online meets traditional at TTI`s Spring conference. Speakers from amongst the largest online travel businesses and the top vertically integrated travel companies will present their strategies and views on future travel distribution. They will then participate in a panel debate, taking questions from the audience and addressing the issue of who will win out, the fleet of foot online players or the established travel companies with their long held brand power?
Other questions that will be addressed by the conference include: How do the distribution strategies of the online travel companies differ from the traditional players? Are online and traditional companies competing for the same customers or are they addressing disparate market segments? Will the new online players go head to head with the old establishment?
Speakers presenting at the conference are:
- Mark Bradbury, Director & Principal Consultant, RWA Ltd
- Mark Jones, CEO, Online Travel Corporation
- John McEwan, Retail Director, TUI UK
- David Burdon, Sales & Marketing Director, Cosmosair plc
- Andrew Windsor, Global Head of Sales and Marketing, lastminute.com
- John Riley, General Manager – Unijet and Group Long Haul, First Choice
- David Scowsill, CEO, Opodo
Mick Mott, General Manager of TTI, commented, TTI conferences are always a sell-out, but this one should prove the best yet. It will be fascinating to compare and contrast the distribution strategies of the online and established travel companies. The panel session, in particular, should be extremely lively.
The event is being sponsored by RWA Ltd whose Sell-It Suite family of online solutions is now powering such companies as Cosmos and their no-frills accommodation site, somewhere2stay.com.
The conference is being held on Tuesday 8 April at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, in central London (behind the Savoy Hotel).
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