Sundar Vasudaven joined TRS Consulting as the founding Principal Consultant in December 2003, after serving as the Head of Travel for Maritime Mercantile International Travel (MMI),an Emirates Group Company based in Dubai.

Sundar previously was the UAE Regional Head for Thomas Cook Al Rostamani and the Travel Manager for International Travel Bureau (one time associate of HRG-DNATA) in Bahrain.

Sundar Vasudaven, Principal Consultant brings over 22 years of Management experience within the Travel Industry in senior positions in the Middle East and Western India.

He holds a Major in Communications from the University of Cambridge, UK. and is a Graduate of the EPGC Senior Management Program, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, USA and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. He participated in the first Aviation Management program conducted by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.

Work engagements include, the Dubai Travel & Tour Agents Group, Oman Travel Agency Community, Sharjah Travel Agents Association, IBM India (Managing clients-Hertz Car Rental, Marriott International and Singapore Airlines), Orbit Travel Business School, Mumbai, India and Hemas Group, SriLanka.

Other Strategic Consulting & Training assignments include, Developing Economic Business models for Travel Agencies representing On –line Airline General Sales Agency representations of major Airlines, viz.Swiss International-Oman, United Travel, Oman Thai Airways-UAE,American Express Travel-Kanoo Travel Group-UAE & Oman,BCD Travel-Jumbo Travel & Tours, Kuwait. Al Rais Travel, Dubai, SNTTA, Dubai, ANTA Travel & Tours, UAE, an ETA-Al Ghurair Group Company.

TRS Consulting is an IATA Strategic Partner and a preferred External Training provider of EmQuest providing Learning Solutions and Professional Certifications to the Travel Agency community in the UAE.

TRS Consulting is the Licensed Training Center of The Travel Institute, USA, providing Internationally recognized Professional Certifications (Certified Travel Associate-CTA, Certified Travel Counselor-CTC and the Certified Travel Industry Executive-CTIE, encompassing all career stages from Front line professionals to the Executive Level in Leadership positions and allowing you to display these international credentials designations.

Sundar Vasudaven was a Guest Faculty of the SP Jain Center of Management, in Dubai, representing the Customer Value Management Program for the Post Graduation MBA- Program.
He represented as a Panel Speaker at the Education Session of the Association Of Corporate Travel Executives 2005 Global Conference, in London and the Arabian Travel Market, UAE,2009,Travel Agents Day panel session on Travel Industry Trainings.

Sundar Vasudaven is a member of the Society Collegiate of Travel Management, USA. and a recipient of the Participation Award of the Dubai Economic Research Award {DERA}-2006.
He supports the Travel Trade through White Papers, Research and Resources and is invited for Travel opinions by local and International Travel Trade publications.

Sundar speaks English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Konkani and Arabic.