How India inspired Omio founder Naren Shaam to hit the ground running to revamp global travel [Video]

Travel tech unicorn Omio owes its inception to a moment of frustration. 

The idea for developing a tech platform focused on ground transport was born out of tech entrepreneur Naren Shaam’s struggle to book a train ticket from Paris to Amsterdam way back in 2012. 

This experience made Shaam, Founder & CEO of Omio, realise that the world of travel was focused primarily on airlines and accommodation and there weren’t solutions that consolidated ground transport options such as buses and trains. 

“I realised that the whole world of travel is divided into airlines, which you can buy pretty much on any website, hotels, and now alternative accommodations. But the ground transport market was really fragmented—trains in Japan, India, buses in Europe, ferries in Greece. No one had consolidated all of this from a technical standpoint,” elaborates Shaam. 

Recognising this gap, Bengaluru-born Shaam took it upon himself to consolidate the fragmented market and aggregate ground transport options across geographies. In fact, the opportunity …