Over 50 years of Tourism Advocacy
Building India's Travel Businesses
Over 50 years of Tourism Advocacy
Building India's Travel Businesses
It is more like the chicken and the egg story, what came first? Between Travel or tourism, which is the mother industry? Globally, tourism is counted as per all arrivals, irrespective of purpose. And yet, we also find voices dismissive…
Flight AI 171 was taking off and in just under two minutes came crashing back on ground! Looks like a case of a pack of cards! Unbelievable and a narrative more befitting a horror novel. A terrible loss of 241…
Indeed, the Good Times were here, with the average Kashmiri enjoying the bounties of tourism. Then came the dastardly attack on the tourists in Pahalgam, impacting common lives, jolting the nation, resulting in India retaliating like never before. It would…
A new brand has been launched by Marriott International, born in India with Fern Hotels, to be labelled ‘Fern Series by Marriott’. This marks a new chapter in India’s hospitality industry, a first, where an international chain, the world’s biggest,…
Arvind Singh ji passes on, leaving behind him a richest legacy among luxury tourism, the icon known globally for Brand Udaipur. The icon of luxury tourism in India, the custodian of Brand Udaipur, Arvind Singh ji of Mewar, passed away…
Decidedly, going by released government figures, to increase domestic tourism by 60 plus crores of travellers in just 45 days is no mean achievement. Not just in India but globally anywhere; one single event, clocking such magical numbers, this has…
Budget 2025 has earmarked a meagre Rs 3 crores for marketing and Rs 2541 crores for infrastructure building Incredible India, how Incredible can she be? Well, it would seem, wonders will only add on, not get any less. The latest…
Over the years, over past decades, numbers have been growing, new streams in activities developing, a product grown out of curated events like nowhere else in the country. It has become the holiday capital to go to, for all reasons,…
Habib Rehman, legend unto himself, who oversaw much of the transformation at ITC hotels, passed on last month. He scaled the heights in hospitality and tourism, alongside a time when our industry was growing; he grew with the industry, say,…
As 2025 dawns upon us, for those in India’s tourism industry, it is becoming apparent that hospitality business is the key driver for our tourism. As hotels expand their offerings, Indians are willing to lap up the fun, and pay…
A truly cosmopolitan and soft-spoken hotelier, Pierre Jochem spent almost a decade in India, initially as General Manager of The Oberoi and later at The Imperial Hotel, both in New Delhi. He recently returned most happily to India to talk…
The good news is that the successor to Mr. Ratan Tata, his half-brother Noel, is equally grounded, sedate, ideally suited to carry the huge legacy forward. The end was a rude shock; only a day before he passed on, he…