Karnataka Tourism Forum (KTF), in its endeavour to make a meaningful contribution to improve tourism in Karnataka, in its own small way, organized a Road Show in Chennai on September28th, 2013. This was on huge demand from the travel fraternity of Karnataka after the successful Road Show in Gujarat and Pune . The Chennai Road Show not just lived up to the expectations but surpassed them.

The event was held at Radisson Blu Hotel Egmore. The format of the event initiated with a B2B session from 11:00 am to 7:30 pm. It was heartening to see as many as 42 sellers, including hotels, resorts, travel agents, tour operators, transport companies interact with local agents from Chennai on a one-to-one basis. The turnout locally was overwhelming with as many as 100 agents from Chennai attending the event. The Chennai Agents were unanimous in their reviews that this was one was of the best travel events organized.

The B2B session was followed by a presentation on ‘Destination Karnataka’ by the President of KTF, including featuring the Karnataka Tourism AV, by Department of Tourism. Finally there were networking opportunities on an informal basis over dinner.

The Road Show will now be followed up with a Familiarization Trip of Karnataka that is being organized for select Chennai Agents.