Jul 18 2011
Dinesh Dhamija
Founder and Former CEO of Ebookers
Dinesh Dhamija is a business entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of the successful online travel agency Ebookers. Dinesh was awarded the 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year award by the Management Today magazine. More recently, he was the founder and chairman of the Copper Beech Group, a firm involved in residential property development in Romania and education infrastructure in India.
“I see travel as a dream of everyone, you are selling something to people that lets them go across the world”
‘Selling travel, is selling dreams, and yet visiting another country, benefits a person, by allowing him to think laterally”
Having gained a Master of Arts Degree in Law from Cambridge University, Dinesh’s first employment was with IBM. However Dinesh was keen to establish his own business and soon decided on the travel industry as his chosen sector. Over the next 20 years he gained the travel expertise, business management experience and supplier contacts which have been so critical in the ebookers success story. By 1999 he realised that the internet was where the future lay, and set about raising the funds to launch websites across Europe. Ebookers rolled out across Europe and quickly established itself as the leading online travel agency in Europe.[/expand]
Dinesh inspires business leaders to adopt a creative an innovative management approach and gives tools and insights for managing business from his experience.[/expand]
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Topics
Building an Internet Success
Internet Entrepreneurship
Internet Travel Agencies
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