SPIRIT OF MUMBAI

 Frame Your Idea (FYI) at  FICCI FRAMES 2019 , concluded yesterday, created even greater access to content producers for those with a creative spark and the burning desire to achieve success in celluloid but having no access to makers. During the 3 days of FYI, over 3500 meetings fructified between 400 writers/idea owners & over 50 Producers/Studios/ Broadcasters. These meetings were across various categories including Film, Animation, Digital/Web Series, TV, and Documentary. Over 50 FYI panelists consisted of content teams of producers, directors, studios, broadcasters and content aggregators, looking for that next big idea, story, script or finished content that they would want to grab and put out there. In 2015, FICCI conceived and executed this 'first of its kind' forum in India called  ‘Frame Your Idea’  (FYI) with the intention to create access for creative minds to pitch their ideas, stories or scripts to best content producers. The foru...

98% of the participants likely to return in 2019 OTM Mumbai, the largest travel trade show in the Asia Pacific region concluded on an optimistic note. 1000+ sellers from 50+ countries and 27 states networked with 10,000+ trade visitors, at Bombay Exhibition Centre, between 18th to 20th January. The show was inaugurated by  Shri. K J Alphons , Minister of State for Tourism (I/C), Government of India. In his inaugural address he expressed his delight seeing the turnout of the global participants. He also expressed satisfaction about the mix of international and national participants at the show floor - approximately 400 and 600 respectively. Guest of Honour  Shri. Jaykumar Rawal , Minister of Tourism, Government of Maharashtra remarked that Mumbai was proud to host the leading travel show in the Asia Pacific region. He also marvelled at the long history of  OTM  as an offshoot of the oldest travel trade show in the country. In an exit survey, 9...

Speed adds thrill to mundane life. In a metropolis like Mumbai, speed is the need to succeed.  On 22nd February 2017, OTM , Mum bai hosted a special Speed-Networking event exclusively for Travel Bloggers and Exhibitors participating in OTM , Mumbai to  build on their prominent role in the travel marketing ecosystem. The shortlisted bloggers held mini-meetings of 5 minute duration with interested exhibitors at the venue. The overall activity was scheduled for 1.5 hours , but went on for 3 hours , during which ample opportunity were provided to both bloggers and exhibitors to meet and discuss how they could work together and help promote the destination, product or brand the exhibitors represent.  Every blogger was given a table with a prominent sign showing the name of the blog and the categories they repr esent. The exhibitors visited bloggers-tables individually. We had a face to face meeting for a max. durati...