The South Asian Digital Travel Conference is a digital conference organized by
the South Asian Travel Awards to discuss in-depth, to create awareness and to
voice the challenges that are being faced in the Travel Trade & Hospitality
Industry of the South Asian region.
The
conference has been purposefully designed as a series, spread across multiple
episodes of 45 minutes each, with special guests from the South Asian region’s
Travel Trade & Hospitality Industry. Each episode will highlight a specific
topic, and industry professionals will be sharing their voice with regional
factual data.
The
conference will be guided by a moderator who will ask questions based on the
topic of the day, and the guests will share their views, experiences, opinions
and hindrances. The show will be viewed live on Facebook (https://web.facebook.com/SATAawards) every Saturday at 1130 GMT and a rerun will be
telecasted on Raajje Television at 1830 GMT. Different episodes will be
presented with diverse industry stakeholders and moderators.
Episode two
will be moderated by the VP of South Asian Travel Awards (SATA) Mr Suraj Khan.
The topic of episode two is; International Business Travel Trade and its impact
on Hotel Industry.
Guests for Episode 02 are:
1 - Mr H.M. Hakim Ali
(Bangladesh)
HM Hakim Ali, chief
executive officer (CEO) of Hotel Agrabad in Chittagong Bangladesh and winner of
the “Life Time Achievement Award” by the Department of Tourism and Hospitality
Management of Dhaka University for his role in tourism development and
promotion in the country. Hakim Ali is also the president of Bangladesh
International Hotel Association (BIHA) and of South Asia Tourism Federation
(SATF),
2- Mr. Sunil Sakya (Nepal)
Sunil Sakya is the Chairman
of KGH Group of Hotels & Resorts. He is also the immediate past Chairman of
PATA Nepal Chapter and presently remains in the executive committee. He was
also the President of Nepal - USA Chamber of Commerce & Industry and is a
special member in its executive committee.
3- Abdulla Ghiyas
(Maldives)
Abdulla Ghiyas is PATA
Face of the Future 2018 and VP of the Maldives Association of Travel Agents
& Tour Operators (MATATO). He is
also the Deputy of the Consulate of the Republic of Seychelles to the Maldives.
Abdulla is a serial entrepreneur in leading travel and start-up businesses such
as Inner Maldives Holidays, Ace Travels Maldives, Spence Maldives, Universal
Aviation Maldives, and Margaritum, a luxury concierge. Abdulla was Board
Director of the Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) and also has been recognised
by JCI Maldives as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons in Maldives for his
role in business turnaround
4- Ms Sangeeta Rana
(Bhutan)
Sangeeta
Rana is the Executive Director of the Hotel and Restaurant Association of
Bhutan. She has several years of experience in the hospitality and tourism
industry. She is also the board member of various tourism and private sector
development boards, such as TDB, CTA, BSTS, HRDB and many more. She represents
the exotic country, Bhutan, which believes in “Gross National Happiness”.