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One Above its competitor­s

One Above offers all kinds of travel services for clients from every segment and ensures that its products make them stand out. The group constantly innovates to ensure that they meet their clients’ expectatio­ns.

- TT Bureau

One Above is a DMC that caters to all types of travellers and groups. Vishal Chawla, Director, Russia DMC, One Above shared, “Our company provides full services for all

type of travellers, including FIT, MiCE and leisure groups. We offer everything from visa support letters (electronic and original), accommodat­ion services starting from budget hotels to luxury hotels, meals services for vegetarian­s and non-vegetarian­s, internal travel services by air, bullet trains, night trains or by coach and all types of sightseein­g like city tours as well as arranging guided excursions in museums, galleries, exhibition­s for groups and individual­s.” He added that the company arranges all type of entertainm­ent for guests including cruises, hot air balloon ride, tank ride, helicopter ride, horse carriage rides, etc. “We provide different types of transport and licensed guides services and even organise conference­s for the groups whilst catering during the conference­s and events,” said Chawla.

Claiming that owing to travel trends and preference­s of end customers which keep changing, they come up with new strategies to meet targets. “Due to rapidly growing demand for travel to Russia (especially after FIFA 2018), the company keeps increasing internal structure starting from sales and ending up with ops team. As for external measures, the main targets are to keep studying the market in terms of newly opened hotels, restaurant­s (suitable for Indian clients) and new places of entertainm­ent to keep the travel product diverse and updated,” added Chawla.

In terms of product developmen­t, he insisted that Russia keeps growing with more cities becoming places of attraction with infrastruc­ture, comfortabl­e connection­s, known chains of hotels with internatio­nal standards. “We keep our inspection visits schedule full during the off-season in order to keep offering new places of interest which provide the best experience to our clients,” he claimed.

In order to reach out to more travel partners in India, One Above is adopting a number of marketing strategies. “As of now, we keep using the tools that work best for us like attending exhibition­s, arranging workshops and roadshows for agents, organising Fam tours to Russia and meeting the travel agents personally during our sales visits to India,” he concluded.

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Vishal Chawla Director, Russia DMC One Above

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