Head of Worldwide Sales and Distribution at SriLankan Airlines Dimuthu Tennakoon shares the current consumers' purchasing patterns for the aviation industry, who is winning in the airline sector, and how SriLankan Airline has maintained a presence online to avoid losing momentum despite the pandemic and work on their travel recovery.
Key questions asked during the interview:
1. Before becoming passengers, we are consumers. How have we changed?
2. During the pandemic, many of the hospitality operators have worked hard to maintain their market share. if we look at the Airline Industry, who is winning and why?
3. Booking patterns have changed, how have you maintained a dynamic presence online to avoid losing momentum?
4. What do people look for and need when it comes to choosing their next airline?
5. Brand loyalty shock - consumers' loyalty has come to a crucial stand across the most recent uncertain times. How do you retain that precious relationship? or how do you build new ones?
Your Host: Dolores Semeraro
Hospitality Virtual Keynote Speaker Dolores Semeraro is a Travel Recovery Strategist with more than 15 years of experience in hospitality, marketing, and trading. She is passionate about helping her clients develop the leadership strategies they need to restore travel confidence and win their customers back.
Dolores’ high-energy virtual keynote presentations are thought-provoking and open the audience’s perception of what really matters to today’s travel consumers.
www.doloressemeraro.com
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Dolores Semeraro is a sought-after international tourism keynote speaker and sustainable tourism marketing professional.
Dolores actively works in the tourism and travel conference space as a keynote speaker and moderator, gracing the stages of international tourism summits and trade shows.
As a professional keynote speaker, Dolores’ speaking topics encompass sustainable digital marketing for the tourism industry, how to establish digital mastery, and learn how to identify today’s traveler’s needs.
During the pandemic, Dolores launched her podcast show named ‘Truth Behind Travel Podcast’ where she regularly interviews tourism and travel industry leaders and representatives on how to rebuild the future of travel.
In the recent years, Dolores has continued to work and live on beautiful islands such as Mauritius, where she started her tourism and hospitality marketing consultancy working closely with the Mauritian luxury hospitality sector as corporate trainer.
According to her international clients, Dolores is a gifted trainer and intuitive workshop facilitator.
She is now based in Europe where she actively works as keynote speaker and corporate trainer in the tourism industry.
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