FOLLOWING the success of eCommerceAcademy’s November conference, the company is now introducing the Trends & Innovation Travel Distribution and Investment Summit which will take place from March 15 to 17 at the Sheraton Hotel, Sofia, Bulgaria, and aims to focus on future trends and how the internet challenges the travel and tourism industry.
The event will include various discussion sessions, the company’s Travel Innovation Awards and a space travel event.
The Future of Space Travel on March 17 will be promoted as a separate summit as well as part of the main forum and tickets can be purchased separately for the one-day event. It will include an appearance by US astronaut Dr Story Musgrave who flew on all the Space Shuttles and helped repair the Hubble telescope. He will speak about what the future space tourist can expect to experience as well as showing his collection of Earth photographs taken from space.
Along with others from the field of space tourism, he will provide insight into the various space travel offerings coming onto the market and will also participate on an eco panel and discussion titled ‘Saving our beautiful planet’.
Kathy Misunas, former CEO of Sabre Group, CEO of Reed Travel Group and CIO of American Airlines, a 30-year travel and technology veteran, will be the main event’s keynote speaker and will sit on the awards jury.
There will be an expo where visitors can meet experts from leading travel technology and solutions companies and, as part of the awards competition, selected innovative travel companies will present their unique and potentially revolutionary solutions to the jury of industry experts and investors who will be on the lookout for the next booking.com or TripAdvisor.
Day two will include multiple workshop sessions going into detail on subjects such as online marketing and online solutions and the essentials for companies to take an informed decision on how to change and grow in the online world.