Online Travel 3.0 2017

Over the last four years, Online Travel 3.0 conference has earned a reputation as a key industry event in the online travel segment in Russia. For the fifth time, the conference organizers brought together the representatives from the largest Russian online travel agencies, global distribution systems, airlines, tourism startups, and IT developers. 

As a leader company, Vipservice Holding was actively engaged in moderating strategic sessions and discussions on the most relevant market-related topics.

On the first day of the conference, Dmitry Gorin, CEO, Vipservice, ran a strategic session "Online market, a direction for the travel industry development." Alexander Sizintsev, CEO, Biletix, gave a speech during the session as well. He spoke about "Key trends in the OTA market" and acted as a moderator of the "Online sales of airline additional services" session. In his report on "Key trends in the OTA market," Alexander Sizintsev noted that the main driver of changes in today's OTA market is the airlines desire to reduce costs in the distribution chain. Amid margins decrease in the aviation segment, OTA are trying to diversify the supply of tourism products and services, increase sales in the non-aviation segments (including additional services, railway tickets, tours), and expand the business coverage. In his report, the expert demonstrated how these processes run in Biletix, one of the largest OTA in Russia.