CEOs of Lastminute, W2M,
Exoticca and Pierre et Vacances to redefine the rules of the travel industry at
TIS2025.
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The ‘CEOs &
Leadership Summit’ forum will debate topics ranging from technological
disruption and AI to talent management and the emergence of new players in the
sector
The
sixth edition of TIS2025 will bring together more than 8,000 tourism
professionals, 200 exhibiting firms and 400 experts from October 22 to 24 in
Seville, Spain
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Madrid, October
1, 2025. Global tourism is undergoing an unprecedented
transformation process where the arrival of artificial intelligence, new
traveler expectations and the need for purposeful experiences are redefining
how travel is conceived. In this context, destinations and tourism companies
must adapt to this new environment in constant change. For this reason, TIS-Tourism Innovation Summit, to be held from October
22 to 24 in Seville, Spain, will host the CEOs & Leadership Summit, a specialized forum where executives from leading
companies in the tourism industry such as Lastminute,
Exoticca, WeRoad, Destinia, W2M, TravelPerk, AMEX, Ilunion Hotels, Pierre et
Vacances Europe or The Tourism
Space, among others, will showcase their success stories and the strategies
they are implementing to respond to the current and upcoming challenges in the
sector.
One of the big changes in this new tourism is
how to measure its success. The traditional model of measuring the impact of
tourism on the number of visitors, number of overnight stays and tourist
spending is collapsing, giving way to a new paradigm more concerned and aware
of the positive impact of tourism on local communities and territories=. At
this time of change, the more than 8,000
professionals attending TIS2025 will be able to discover how to build purposeful tourism, capable of generating
vitality in destinations and relevance for travelers, while leaving a positive
footprint on society. To this end, Tina
O'Dwyer, CEO and founder of The
Tourism Space, will discuss the need to move from metrics focused on volume
to indicators that measure the real impact of tourism activity on communities
and territories.
The new players
in tourism
This moment of structural change that the travel
industry is going through is also bringing about a wave of mergers,
acquisitions and strategic alliances, along with the emergence of powerful new
players and the repositioning of traditional giants. Gabriel
Subías, CEO of W2M (World2Meet),
the travel division of the Iberostar Group, and Henry
Briance, Senior Managing Director of Certares,
will analyze the changes and transformations that tourism companies and groups
may experience in the future to maintain their competitiveness and strength in
complex and changing environments.
In this regard, tourism is attracting new
players from outside the traditional sector, from major sports retailers to
e-commerce platforms and lifestyle brands. Rodolphe
Lenoir, co-founder of Impact
Consultants; Damien Corchi, COO
of Decathlon Travel; and Nicolas Gerbal, Director of Travel &
Leisure at Showroom Privé, will
reveal why their companies have decided to expand into travel=. They will also
explain how they are leveraging the trust and communities they have built to
design travel experiences and products, and what opportunities for
collaboration are opening for operators, destinations and OTAs in the face of
this game changer.
Innovation, the
key to an uncertain environment and a changing traveler
The congress will also address how innovation in the travel experience is
transforming the market. Dan Christian,
founder of Travel Trends Podcast,
will show how AI is becoming an everyday tool that is redefining the way we
design products, optimize operations and anticipate trends. This shows that AI
is already becoming a strategic driver for all areas and segments of the
industry. In the MICE sector, Noelia
Herranz, Global Vice President, Business Enablement at AMEX (American Express Global Business
Travel) will explain how this technology is redefining the events and business
travel landscape.
For their part, the CEOs of Lastminute.com, Alessandro
Petazzi, Exoticca, Pere Vallés, and WeRoad, Andrea D'Amico, will share how they are
reinventing the traveler experience and adopting innovation in their businesses
to navigate this new changing and uncertain environment.
Likewise, in the hotel sector, Gregory Sion, CEO of Pierre et Vacances Europe, will also unveil
his strategies to meet the challenges of improving efficiency, loyalty and adapting
to a constantly changing customer. Meanwhile, in the travel agencies and tour
operators segment, Mónica Emilio,
Chief Operating Officer of Destinia, David Hernandez, CEO and founder of Pangea, and Carlos
López, Managing Director of Avasa
Travel Group, will analyze how they are redesigning their role to remain
relevant in an ecosystem dominated by immediacy.
But no transformation is sustainable if there
are no teams prepared to drive it. Talent
management will therefore be another of the topics to be addressed at
this edition of the Tourism Innovation Global Summit. Carlos
Bello, Innovation Director at Ilunion
Hotels, José Emanuel Soler,
Director of Les Roches, Juan Diego Salinas, Director of Metahotel, and Felicia
Williams, VP of People at TravelPerk,
will share how companies in the sector are transforming the way they structure
and empower their teams to gain speed, break down silos, encourage
experimentation and attract talent in a global and highly competitive
environment.
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