- The Gadget Present’s Jason Bradbury and Google’s Susie Vowinkel confirmed as keynote audio system for 2024 version of TravelTech Present
- Customer registration is now open forward of the present going down 19-20 June 2024 at ExCeL London
With only one month to go till TravelTech Present opens its doorways on 19 June, organisers of this 12 months’s present have launched additional findings from its analysis, highlighting the challenges felt by patrons.
Over a 3rd (34 per cent) said that each implementation time for brand new options or platforms and balancing budgets in keeping with the price of new expertise, are their greatest challenges over the following 12 months. These had been carefully adopted by 29 per cent who said that for them the largest challenges had been buyer retention and bettering the client expertise.
The information comes as TravelTech Present additionally proclaims additional particulars on audio system and content material for this 12 months’s revitalised programme which incorporates extra alternatives to study in regards to the newest traits and developments throughout the sector, acquire useful perception and recommendation from knowledgeable audio system and meet the latest suppliers and options.
The keynote audio system for 2024 are Jason Bradbury, former host of The Gadget Present opening the present on 19 June along with his tackle the place AI will take us within the subsequent decade, and Susie Vowinkel, managing director of journey for Google, who might be sharing the newest insights on journey from the search engine large to kick off day two on 20 June.
Along with the keynote speeches, this 12 months’s present sees the return of the Professional Recommendation Hub, which is able to allow patrons to pre-book appointments with an business knowledgeable and acquire invaluable recommendation on subjects together with advertising and marketing and gross sales technique, successful and maintaining information clients funding methods and rising tech, to call only a few.
Forward of the present, guests are additionally inspired to solid their vote for the winner of this 12 months’s Trailblazer Awards. Pitches from all 10 finalists can be found to view now on the TravelTech Present web site, the place guests may vote forward of the cut-off date of 31st Might. Every finalist is beneath 40 months outdated and also will participate in a Trailblazer Panel on the present to current their resolution and showcase how their expertise is working to rework the journey business, earlier than the winner is introduced on 20 June.
Commenting on the newest outcomes of the survey and the programme for this 12 months’s present, Nimet Sayeed, Occasion Supervisor, TravelTech Present stated, “The tempo of journey expertise growth, while thrilling, can current challenges for journey corporations and patrons if not successfully deliberate and managed. Any vital change in working programs requires money and time in addition to the best and best-fit implementation with present options, which might appear a frightening prospect. Reassuringly the wealth of options and integrations accessible to streamline each operations and the client journey imply it doesn’t should be.
“Likewise, the ever-increasing advance of on-line adoption means operators are in a greater certified place than ever earlier than to know and interact with clients to make sure that not solely are they enhancing the client expertise, but additionally critically, retaining them to safe sustainable profitability.
“In constructing the programme for this 12 months’s TravelTech Present we’ve got labored to make sure that not solely do we’ve got market main consultants accessible to hearken to throughout the panel and speaker classes, however there are a selection of how for patrons and suppliers to satisfy and interact nose to nose to study extra in regards to the solutions accessible to the challenges of implementation, value, buyer administration and extra.”
100 journey and journey expertise firm representatives took half within the survey in April 2024.
TravelTech Present takes place from 19 – 20 June 2024 at ExCeL, London.
