About The Conference

Hosting the Asia Online Travel Leaders' Retreat for the second time running, Abacus looks to welcome Chief Executives of the leading online travel agencies from across Asia. This year, the much anticipated retreat will convene industry's top leaders in the vibrant and exciting city of Shanghai, from 21 to 23 May 2009.

Representing China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, India, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam, these leaders can look forward to provocative discussions, sharing of business insights and building closer engagements over these 3 days. This is an opportunity to tap onto the industry's expertise and experience, and be inspired to convert ideas into actions.

There will be no external marketing or public relations around the event and the debate will be focused on industry issues, not any particular products and services.

Topics planned to be covered by our global leaders in online travel include (pending more topics):

  • Asia Pacific Online Travel Landscape
  • Convergence of social networking and online travel
  • The wisdom of crowds?: Getting to the heart of user-generated content (UGC)
  • Thought leadership 2009-2010
  • They went where? - Tracking and holding the elusive online customer
  • China and Asia's secrets - Guidance from an online payment leader
  • Staying true to the vision