DDP Gamechanger for the year: Jaal Shah

Jaal Shah, Group Managing Director, Travel Designer Group, Founder – RezLive.com was recognised as the DDP Gamechanger. Jaal Shah has been instrumental in the empowerment of travel partners globally. His company Travel Designer Group, which started out as a small business, is today considered as one of the leading and fastest growing wholesale travel company globally. Shah began his tryst with the travel industry in 1999, as an outbound tour operator offering short haul destinations. Early in 2001, his company, The Travel Designer Inc., started its first outbound consolidation division Designer Packages, which offered Middle East and South East Asia as core destinations to travel partners. After gaining a few years of hands-on experience in the trade, Shah diversified his business by launching RezLive.com, Designer Indya, RezLive Thailand and RezLive Dubai. Shah, a staunch believer in promoting new ventures in high technology businesses, was solely responsible for transforming the Travel Designer Group into a strategic think-tank. He is also the founder of XMLHUB.COM, a global travel network providing access to the extensive global content and excellent negotiated rates to OTA’s, Hotel booking portals, Travel agents/ tour operators, Wholesale travel companies and Travel Technology companies.