We are thrilled to see such positive feedback from your recent conversation with Arun Varma Thank you for highlighting our efforts and the value we strive to bring to the business travel sector. It’s collaborations and discussions like these that drive us to innovate and excel. We look forward to the opportunity to collaborate and achieve great milestones together in the future!
Wanted to share that I had a great conversation with Arun Varma last Wednesday – It was like having virtual coffee talk with someone trying to make great change. The best thing is that these change are in the world of Travel for better. Arun is the CEO at Prime Air Global – It is a Global Business Travel Management – It is a huge task to set up a company and that too a Global Business Travel Company. Turns out we both share some interests like 👉 Bangalore and Delhi – Arun has been working from Delhi and he had an office branch in Bangalore – Currently I work from Bangalore and started by career in Delhi so we talked about both the place and what it means to both of us. 👉 Travel Procurement – We talked about Travel Procurement and how it is different from other categories – How suppliers like Arun can bring value adds, innovations and great efficiency to Travel Procurement 👉 The challenges of Corporate Travel – The Travel Industry operates on daily rates and fluctuation mainly for Airline and Hotels – This makes it difficult to get contracts and show values - Also there are other Travel Providers who are competitors for Travel Procurement and Travel Management Companies 👉 In general, about our individuals experience about our roles and how things are at different now compared to 1990s and 2000s – Arun started his career around 1990s when manual paperwork was much more – I have worked for a UK Travel website around 2003s and that is the start for e-commerce and website travels 👉 We also talked about how things might shape up in the future – How we both are helpful that Travel becomes more and more efficient and effective in helping the customers 👉 Total Cost of Onwership – We also talked about how Total Cost of Onwership or TCO is very important for Travel Procurement – For example the Airlines Tickets are cheap on weekend but if someone travels on weekends the would have to pay for the Hotel stay and generally Hotel stays are more expensive during the weekends – So TCO is a must to be considered. Finally we closed on the note that if Arun comes to Bangalore or if I make it to Delhi we will make an effort to meet and have real time connect with some good tea/ coffee