SATTE 2017 witnesses an array of tie-ups, exhibitors and innovations in its grand 24th edition

SATTE’s Silver Jubilee edition puts up a grand show

Spread over a massive 25,000 square meter, SATTE 2018, recorded a staggering growth in net area and number of exhibitors

The fastest growing economy amongst the larger economies of the world, India is recording double digit growths across all travel segments. Outbound travel from India has surpassed 23 million in 2017 and has continued to growth in double digits in the last few years. Inbound arrival has recorded a robust over 15 per cent growth in 2017. Domestic travel has recorded a staggering 1.8 billion travels and is expected to surpass 3 billion marks by 2025.

And celebrating its Silver Jubilee edition in 2018, SATTE has emerged as the undisputed premier market place in the entire South Asia region for the businesses in travel, tourism and hospitality arena from both, India and overseas, to grow their travel business interest from this phenomenally growing market as the Silver Jubilee edition attracted over 31000 trade visitors to shop at over 1000 suppliers and exhibitors from 50 countries from across the globe and 80 cities in India.

SATTE Awards

Recognising the Best:

As a pre-cursor to the expo, UBM India hosted the second edition of the SATTE Awards. The awards was an endeavour to recognize and celebrate the excellence, achievements and innovations of key stakeholders in the Travel and Tourism industry and was based on transparent, authentic and genuine parameters, a philosophy which is imbibed in the values of SATTE. The awards night also included networking opportunities, presentations and other features. The 23 categories of awards covered various segments of the travel and tourism industry including tour operators, hotels, destinations, online travel portals, to name just a few. In just its second year, the Awards received an overwhelming response from the travel and industry.

Glimpses of SATTE 2018

Testimonial

Dignitary speak:

Bo Keun Choi, Senior Officer, Regional Programme for Asia and the Pacific, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO):

“Globally, we crossed the mark of 1.3 billion travellers this year. The growth rate to be expected in the upcoming years for the travel and tourism industry is around 7%. India is one of the leading countries with almost 16% contribution to the industry. I appreciate SATTE’s contribution over the years in getting the industry together, and also its campaign I-Pledge, that promotes the cause of sustainable tourism, thereby giving us the opportunity to pledge for and promote sustainable tourism and create a better world to live in.”

The first panel discussion of the day ‘UNWTO: The relevance of thematic tourism routes in fostering regional collaboration and prosperity’ brought together stakeholders from across the table in a discussion focused on assessing the enormous opportunity and potential to develop transnational thematic tourism routes and challenges of linking the destinations of South Asia.