On September 25 I gave a talk on startup trends in travel startups section at Online Travel 3.0 conference. The section was organized by Travel Startups community (https://www.facebook.com/groups/travel.startups.intl/).

1. Travel Startups:
Trends and Forecast
Valentin Dombrovsky for Online Travel 3.0
Moscow, 09.25.2015

2. http://travelabs.org

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

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

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

6. 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/

7. Mobile – bringing up seamless experience

8. Messengers as platforms

9. Case 1 – Aviasales Telegram Bot
http://blog.aviasales.ru/telegram-bot/

10. Case 2 – Travel Agency in Viber
http://skift.com/2015/09/18/heres-the-first-travel-agency-to-operate-only-on-viber/

11. Mobile is about making it simple

12. Big Data was always near… and it’s in UGC!
Industry strives for semantic UGS analysis engine

13. 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)

14. Forecast?

15. Next talks

16. Thank you for listening!
Valentin Dombrovsky:
Email: valentin@travelabs.org
Phone: +7 916 839-36-07