Sunish Sadasivan

VP of eCommerce & Revenue Management
Chroma Hospitality

Sunish has worked with several hotels and resorts chain for the past 18 years doing revenue management and e-distribution at property as well as corporate levels, for which his primary job scope was to maximise overall hotel revenue; while balancing profitability through implementation of an effective revenue management process and data driven fact based business decisions. He has held area distribution level positions with Anantara as well as Amari Group. He has pre-opened two hotel chains located in Dubai and Philippines leading the revenue, eCommerce and reservation sales teams. He has also successfully set up revenue management systems including ideas and EZRMS in his previous companies with hands on training experience in building the revenue management culture.

2:40 PM Interview: Do new technologies (like direct connections between airlines/ hotels and travel agencies or consumers) pose a threat to the dominant role played by global distribution system providers in the travel ecosystem?

Today, four companies dominate the travel distribution landscape: Amadeus, Travelport, China’s TravelSky, and Sabre, the original company to develop this technology when it was a division of American Airlines. Will this change? This panel will explore:

· Will you be able to move beyond exploration of new distribution models outside the global distribution system?

· Will startups working to develop new solutions to the distribution problem be able ease the pain often created by the reliance on global distribution systems?

· Are the products you sell through the global distribution system worth it?

· Despite the dominance of Amadeus, Sabre, and Travelport, is there room for new players in the travel distribution space to emerge?

· Next-gen distribution – How will the utility of blockchain in travel distribution disrupt the marketplace?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Sunish.

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