Travel Startups: Trends and Forecast

Valentin Dombrovsky for Online Travel 3.0Moscow, 09.25.2015

http://travelabs.org

Travel startups - the barriers to entry are very low, but the barriers to disruption are high (Tnooz)

http://www.tnooz.com/article/travel-startups-cling-to-inspiration-sector-yet-massively-out-of-sync-with-investment/

http://www.tnooz.com/article/travel-startups-cling-to-inspiration-sector-yet-massively-out-of-sync-with-investment/

Trends

• Mobile – everywhere

• Big data – we start to understand what it means

• Sharing economy – becomes major part of economy

http://www.tnooz.com/article/mobile-ads-UGC-data-instant-booking-Meeker/

Mobile – bringing up seamless experience

Messengers as platforms

Case 1 – Aviasales Telegram Bot

http://blog.aviasales.ru/telegram-bot/

Case 2 – Travel Agency in Viber

http://skift.com/2015/09/18/heres-the-first-travel-agency-to-operate-only-on-viber/

Mobile is about making it simple

Big Data was always near… and it’s in UGC!

Industry strives for semantic UGS analysis engine

We started to think about sharing economy impact

“They are really 20th-century laws, and we’re in a 21st century economy” (B. Chesky

about government regulations for sharing economy)

Forecast?

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Valentin Dombrovsky:Email: valentin@travelabs.orgPhone: +7 916 839-36-07