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Otto de Vries
Speaker
Otto de Vries
CEO - Association of Southern African Travel Agents
Otto is the CEO of ASATA (Association of Southern African Travel Agents), past Chairman of the World Travel Agents Association Alliance (WTAAA) and board of the Tourism Business Council of South Africa (TBCSA).
He has been active in the travel industry for 30 years, 20 of those in senior management roles in the inbound, retail and wholesale sectors.
He is a WTAAA delegate to the IATA Passenger Agency Global Joint Council (PAPGJC) and currently Chairs the WTAAA Air Committee. Through the Council he has participated on a number of sub-committees, including the steering group on NDC Thought Leadership, the Transparency in Payment Advisory Group and the IATA ADM Working Group. Closer to home he actively participates in the Tourism Leadership Forum (TLF) and through the TBCSA worked on several committees that focused on the B-BBEE Tourism Sector Code amendments; amendments to the South African Immigration Act and the Market Access/ Regulatory Environment Working Committee of the Department of Tourism.
Presentation:
Blending tech with the human touch for winning travel management
In the world of travel management, there’s no such thing as travel technology vs the Travel Management Company (TMC). Rather, there’s symbiotic synergy. Travel technology empowers the TMC to deliver the personalised human touch that corporate travellers need, but when travel get complicated, as it tends to do, the TMC brings problem-solving skills to save the day. Association of Southern African Travel Agents CEO Otto de Vries will share why one cannot exist without the other. In his view, this marriage between travel tech and TMC is the perfect example of ubuntu in travel management.
Conference Day 2