Travel Massive Podcast

We chat with Kei Shibata Founder & CEO of Venture Republic Japan's largest travel metasearch business including Travel.jp, the "Kayak.com of Japan" about change and innovation in the travel-tech space Welcome to the Travel Massive podcast, an interview series with travel industry change-makers and pioneers, sharing their stories and insights. Your host is Holly Galbraith, tourism expert and also host of the Tourism Tweetup Podcast (www.gofuturemedia.com). Highlights: Kei talks about disruption in the travel and tech space including: - what does it mean to be a "disruptor?" - how The Venture Republic centres "users" around their business model - how sacrificing financial gain sometimes is needed to get ahead of the competition - finding new ways to innovate in the travel space, change the travel industry, and impact the way travellers travel and make decisions when they travel Recent successes of The Venture Republic: - syndicating 400+ travel brokers around the world - generating 8,000+ content on travel