Rimini Expo Centre

Day 1

The first day was really busy and felt like a few seconds. It was full of happiness, offline meetings, productive negotiations and new acquaintances. Here are some daily highlights:

• we held more than 35 meetings with partners and suppliers;
• hosted an event for our Italian LCC partners. We had aperitivo with special attendance of Andrej Skraba, the Senior Business Development Manager at Lufthansa City Center International. The host star was our support front-office manager Alessandro, who was presented to all partners;
• Felix Shpilman (CEO of Emerging Travel Group, which manages RateHawk) gave an interview to Italian travel media Guida Viaggi and talked about RateHawk’s performance and future plans.

On the left: RateHawk team (Felix Shpilman, Ilya Kravtsov, Marta Ladutko, Gabriele Zauli) andour partners from LCC Italy (Andrej Skraba, Umberto Sassatelli).On the right: Gianluca Bartolaminelli and Luca Rizelli

RateHawk Team the stand

At that’s not all! The evening was also quite interesting as we held an exclusive RateHawk Party at WE ME SUITE Riccione. We spent a couple of hours networking and having fun with the guests — we were so happy to see all of you offline, shake hands, make photos, laugh and share news and thoughts.

Felix Shpilman, CEO of Emerging Travel Group, RateHawk’s parent company, made a presentation about the Group’s philosophy and business principles and announced the launch of a new legal entity in Italy. Afterwards, Gabriele Graziani (Country Manager for Italy) talked more about Italian team, its great performance and achievements. By the way, we have a short but interesting and touching interview with Gabriele which was posted just before the event (it’s in Italian). 

Felix Shpilman and Gabriele Graziani

Also, we presented awards to our top partners: 

• Special thanks for 2022 Partnership
• Partner with the main growth in 2022
• Top startup as RateHawk partner
• Partner with bookings in each of the last 24 months
• Most historical partner
• Partner who first booked all of our services.

Thanks for being with us — your companies growth and success is our goal!

And in the end of the party we had one more funny activity: we took all the business cards from our guests and ran a draw of 200 and 500 RateHawk points which can be spent on future bookings. Congrats to the winners! 

Thanks to everyone who spent this evening with us! It was such a pleasure to meet all of you in person!

On the right: Ilya Kravtsov, Chief Commercial Officer of Emerging Travel Group

Day 2

The second day of TTG 2022 was even busier:

• our team held more than 100 meetings (we were on a record!);
• we had a lot of productive discussion with our partners: talked about the strategy for 2023 and business growth;
• got congratulations and positive feedback about coming launch of legal entity in Italy.

RateHawk team

Gabriele Graziani, Marta Ladutko and Maria Marron

Day 3

Final day, closing thoughts and warm goodbye from Gabriele Graziani — country Manager for Italy. See you next year!