Attendee: Mr. AritroDasgupta, Faculty &Programme Manager
OTM Travel & Tourism Fair (TTF) is India’s biggest outbound tourism fair. It has stalls of various key stakeholders within the tourism industry. State & national tourism boards, tourism publications, travel agencies, online travel portals, tourism services facilitators and hotel chains were all represented in this fair. Some of the key points as per the experience this year are as follows:
•    The major focus was on B to B linkages. The majority of stall operators were rather bored to see queries by individual customers.
•    International presence was comparatively lukewarm. Even within the limited response, half of it came via other south or south east Asian nations’ presence.
•    Some state boards had big stalls including- West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Kerala & Karnataka.
•    There was a substantial presence of hotel chains from the state of Jammu & Kashmir, perhaps reflecting the economic growth in that state.