2020, year zero for the OTA business model. Key market players talk about what's changed in the year of COVID

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2020, year zero for the OTA business model. Key market players talk about what's changed in the year of COVID

05/09/21 h 14:00 - 15:00

OTAs have dominated the short term rental industry unchallenged for the past 10 years. 2020 was a year in which this dominance was challenged by an unprecedented pandemic. In this panel we will have the main OTAs on the market as guests, with whom we will analyse what measures they have put in place to revitalize the market and what internal changes have been made to offer more dynamic and flexible tools to Hosts.

Speakers

Silvia Montini

CEO & Founder, DORMOA

With over 10 years of experience in Marketing and Tourism, Silvia Montini is an Italian entrepreneur living in London and the founder of Charmstay.com and Dormoa.com. After several years of experience in the field of Tourism Marketing, in 2016 Silvia started her first company, Charmstay.com, hosting more than 5000 tourists a year in various locations, including London and Tenerife. In 2019 she founded Dormoa.com, the first Italian OTA for selected holiday flats, now operating in Italy, London and Barcelona. In 2020 Team Dormoa launched the first Italian Tourism App with over 3000 itineraries and 1000 Experiences, for rediscovering the Italian domestic market.

Erika De Santi

Co-founder & Managing Director & Equity Partner WeRoad

WeRoad Co-founder & Managing Director & Equity Partner, innovation expert in the tourism sector. Since childhood, her dream was to give people unique experiences through travel. By founding WeRoad, she realised her ikigai! She loves the contact with people and observing the impact WeRoad has on their lives. Concrete and ambitious, she took WeRoad from a startup to a scalable and international company.

Gianpaolo Vairo

Consultant

Gianpaolo is a professional who has been working in the non-hotel sector for over 15 years, at first in the Property Management sector and then in the field of management software and specialised sales channels for the short-term lettings sector. From Barcelona, where he lives, he offers, under the brand "Vacation Rental Rocket", specialised consulting services to all companies working in the non-hotel hospitality sector, with a particular focus on the Southern European market. For over 7 years he has been organising training events for hospitality professionals, consolidating a conference format that now forms the basis of the model adopted by Host B2B, the European community of non-hotel professionals of which he is co-founder together with Francesco Mongiello.