Travel Distribution Summit Asia, 2013

Powerful Strategies to Maximise Your Profits and Win the Tech-Savvy Travel Consumer in APAC

Back with a bang, the 9th Annual Travel Distribution Summit (TDS), Asia (May 28-29, Singapore) promises to be the most exciting year yet. As a thought-leader in the 2013's travel space you gain three things... Firstly, utilize the most exciting, 'hot-off-the-press' information on the latest travel trends and tailor your business strategy for the rapidly evolving tech-savvy travel consumer.

Secondly, network with over 700 senior level executives who represent the biggest names in APACs online travel, tourism and hospitality. Thirdly, receive true value for money and discover the most effective ways to implement the key take-aways to generate an even more impressive ROI.

Register now to secure your place at APAC's largest strategic conference for Travel executives

What’s new at TDS Asia 2013:

• New speakers from Twitter, Japan Airlines, LinkedIn, e-Bay, Emirates, Amazon, Qatar Airways, Spring Airlines and many more
  
  
• Be challenged and learn - First ever appearances on the Keynote 'Kings of the Online World' (Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Amazon)
  
  
• A spotlight focus on China with challenging discussion on a) Understanding the Chinese consumer and b) Understanding how to create a winning business strategy to successfully penetrate the Chinese consumer c) Interactive learning through a focus group and Chinese Master Class
  
  
• The future of Mobile and Social Media: challenging insight and methods to tailor your strategy to the future of online and travel
  

TDS Asia 2013 will be your 1-stop shop to gain all the intelligence, practical know-how, profitable contacts and deals you need to storm ahead of your rivals and reap record profits in 2014.

Hear what attendees had to say about the 2012 conference

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The Four Topic Areas:

Living up to its name of the most valuable event for travel information and networking, at TDS Asia you can experience in depth debate and discussion on the following 4 topic areas:

• Online Distribution: OTA vs Direct debate, Spotlight on China: Business Models as well as a Chinese-Customer focus, APACs Current Economic Climate - Where to Invest Next, Disruptive Business Models, Start-ups and Innovative Business Models, Big Data, the 'Great Search Debate'

• Revenue Management: Total Revenue Management, Customer Intelligence and the Latest in Customer Analytics, Fully Monetising Your Customer, Talent - Gain it, Train it, Retain it, Influence of Social Media and Mobile on Pricing Strategies

• Mobile: The Future of Mobile, Selling Through the Device, Create the Ultimate Design, Tablets & Apps - Sustainable Profit Generation Through These, Winning the 'On-Trip' Consumer, Payments

• Marketing & Social Media: The User-Experience, Personalisation, Cross-Platform Marketing, Your Perfect Internal Social Media Strategy, Social-Local-Mobile, Analytics, User Reviews, APACs Most Successful Marketing Channels

Download the brochure for TDS Asia 2013 now and discover exactly what you'll learn, in detail, today

Top Speakers Include:

• Anil Damodaran, Director of Mobile Solutions, Abacus
• Speaker tbc, Amazon
• Chris Cheong, Corporate Director E-Commerce, Berjaya Hotels & Resorts
• Adrian Currie, Managing Director, APAC, Booking.com
• Roy Graff, Managing Director,ChinaContact
• Jens Thraenhart, Co-Founder/President, Dragon Trail 
• Manvendra Roy, E-Commerce Manager, Emirates Airlines
• Johan Svanstrom, Managing Director APAC, Expedia
• Doug Stotland, Director Advertising Sales APAC, Facebook
• Gregg Tilston, Global Social Media Leader, Flightcentre.com
• Christian Cadeo, Head of Mobile SEA, Google
• Rajiv Malhotra, Senior Manager SEA, Hotels.com
  
• Jim Sprigg, Customer Analytics Director, Intercontinental Hotel Group
• Tomohiro Nishihata, VP Web Marketing, Japan Airlines
• Hari Krishnan, Managing Director, APAC & Japan, LinkedIn
  
• Shihaj Kutty, Head of Network & RM, Malaysia Airlines
• Maunik Thacker, Vice President, Revenue Optimisation, Marina Bay Sands
• Andrew Lau, Director of Revenue Management & Distribution, Marco Polo Hotels
• Marcos Cadena, Group Director Electronic Distribution, Minor Hotel Group
• Jurgen Ortelee, VP Revenue Performance, Pan Pacific Hotel Group
• Peter Pohlschmidt, Manager e-Commerce, Qatar Airways
• Joseph Wang, Senior Director of Hotel Business, Qunar.com
• Hassimah Abd Hamid, Head of Revenue Management, RAK Airways
• Shashank Nigam, CEO, SimpliFlying
  
• Jonathan Hutt, Deputy General Manager, Spring Airlines
• Ewan Gray, Director APAC, SkyScanner
  
• Janice Chan, Director Online Distribution & Marketing, Starwood Hotels & Resorts
• Andy Khen, Corporate Director E-Commerce & Distribution, Swiss-BelHotel International
• Aliza Knox, Managing Director, Online Sales, Twitter
  
• Edward Perry, Global Senior Director, World Hotels

And many more...

Click here to see who attended last year and who you can network with this year...

Here's what they said about 2012's event -

Excellent to see what everyone else is doing within the tourism industry and see what Air NZ needs to be doing to stay ahead

Kathryn Gregory, Director of Marketing Air New Zealand

I benefitted greatly from the wealth of knowledge of both the speakers and moderators through the 2 day event and look forward to attending next year.  Great opportunity to also network with hospitality and travel contacts

Lau Foong Yee, Regional Marketing Director APAC, Swissotel

The sessions were relevant and thought provoking.  I was able to connect with people from US, UK, China and India apart from Singapore – What a great opportunity!

Priyanka Gargav, Manager - Distribution & Merchandising, APAC, Travelocity

EyeforTravel is always a great forum for tapping into the pulse of the Travel distribution/Online travel industry

Aloke Bajpai, Founder & CEO, Ixigo

Quite simply the best travel industry conference around. The revenue management track was highly informative, case-study based and extremely rich in both interaction and substance

John Poon, Regional Director, Easy RMS

Who would’ve guessed a 2-day summit equals 6 months' worth of projects, research and work. Thankfully, this impresses my boss and the company benefits from it all.'

Rafina A. Rahman, Senior Group Marketing Services Manager, Hotel Equatorial Corporate Office

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We at EyeforTravel are extremely excited about 2013's TDS Asia and the new things it has in store. Keep up to date and register early to take advantage of Early Bird Discounts!

Register here to make sure you don't miss out on the most profitable information forum yet

I look forward to seeing you in Singapore!

Best regards,

Emily

Emily Assender Conference Director, Asia-Pacific EyeforTravel E: emily@eyefortravel.com T: UK +44 (0)207 375 7158 US: 800 814 3459 7158