OTM – the biggest ever travel trade show in India

OTM 2015, scheduled from 4 to 6 February 2015, at the Bombay Convention and Exhibition Centre is the biggest ever travel trade show in the country.

Close to a thousand travel-product sellers from over 50 countries are exhibiting at the show.

Over 10,000 buyers from the travel industry are expected to visit the three-day event.

Mumbai is the biggest travel market in India, accounting for about a third of all outbound and domestic trips.

With strong hinterland markets in the West and South India, for which it is the preferred port of departure for international trips, Mumbai accounts for about a third of all Outbound trips from India.

Maharashtra is also the top Inbound destination state as a whole, attracting about a fifth of all foreign visits in India.

OTM is a three-day exhibition and conference of the travel industry.

The largest country pavilions in OTM are from Turkey, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Egypt, Nepal, Philippines, Macau, China, Argentina, Japan, Bangladesh, Oman, Seychelles, Jordan, Bhutan, Czech Republic, Romania, Taiwan, New Zealand, Mexico and Dubai. Exhibitors from several other countries are also participating.

The biggest state participations are from Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Gujarat, Kerala, Daman & Diu, Karnataka, Punjab, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir and Maharashtra. Many more states are also represented.

Some of the other big sellers at OTM are Taj, Best Western, Sri Lankan Airlines, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Adlabs Imagica, Ark Travels and Heena Holidays. OTM will also see for the first time a big participation by Adventure Tour Operators Association of India (ATOAI) in an Adventure Tourism Pavilion comprising operators specialising in adventure tourism.

Apart from Leisure Travel, OTM has a substantial segment on Business Travel & MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions related travel), which is being presented as a show-in-show called BTM.
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