OTM Grows Bigger And Better Every Year

A record edition with over 10,000 trade visitors, more than 1000 sellers and around 300 hosted buyers

OTM 2018, touted as the largest travel trade show in the entire Asia-Pacific region, turned out to be a record edition with over 10,000 trade visitors attending the event. More than 1000 sellers and around 300 hosted buyers participated in the three-day show in Mumbai, which was inaugurated by K J Alphons, Minister of State for Tourism (I/C), Government of India in the presence of Jaykumar Rawal, Minister of Tourism, Government of Maharashtra.

Speaking on the occasion, Minister Alphons said: “I am happy to know that OTM has emerged as the leading travel trade show in the AsiaPacific region. India has a 5,000-year old civilisation and a huge heritage for the world to explore. The country has innumerable tourist destinations from the Himalayas in the North to the backwaters in the South. India also offers spiritual tourism and cultural heritage with its widely spread civilisation in the sub-continent. The Ministry of Tourism is working to bring in confidence building mechanisms to establish India as a peaceful and safe destination.”

Indians take some 22 million trips abroad and more than a billion within the country. Mumbai is the largest source market of domestic and outbound travel for Leisure, Business, MICE and Weddings. It serves literally as the ‘gateway of India’ to the largest number of travellers going abroad from other cities and towns in Western and Southern India. “Our efforts are to showcase the treasures of tourism that we possess in Mumbai, Maharashtra and the rest of the country,” said Minister Jaykumar Rawal.