Category TOURISM

How the Prime Ministers Museum and Library became one of India’s most ambitious cultural institutions — and why it matters now more than ever. Nestled within a thirty-acre estate south of Rashtrapati Bhavan, at the heart of Lutyens’ New Delhi,…

A most timely event, just when Faith tourism is in ascendancy, giving rise to a new economy, a new eco-system that gives rise to more employment, economic uplift around lesser-known destinations, this event brought together stake holders in the business. …

The journey to Chumi Gyatse begins in the warm plains of Assam, where Tezpur slowly fades behind convoys, tea gardens, and rising hills. From there, the roads climb steadily towards Tawang through two great mountain arteries built by the Border…

The latest media reporting based on a multi-reserve study by scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) highlights that tourism and human activity inside these reserves are significantly increasing stress levels among tigers. TOFT, who have campaigned…

A Door that Opens to the Past More than two decades ago, during a training course at the Royal School of Military Engineering  in Chatham, England, I spent a free Sunday exploring the nearby Medway towns. It was one of…

In an era of global heritage commodification, Lucknow’s rich Western–Oriental fabric exemplifies cultural sustainability by embracing complexity. As cities face the challenge of balancing tourism with authentic preservation, Lucknow’s story emphasises that genuine heritage tourism should be interpretive, dialogic, and…

India possesses many assets. Some lie beneath the ground in the form of minerals, coal, oil and gas. Others exist above the ground in factories, infrastructure, technology and human talent. Yet one of India’s greatest assets stands in plain sight.…

India’s domestic tourism has been largely growing on its own steam. It is the growing desire of Indians to travel more, spend more, create memories. Especially after the covid lockdown, when we had the first signs of the YOLO concept…

For decades, India’s growth story revolved around sectors such as information technology, automobiles, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. More recently, entirely new engines of economic activity have emerged — renewable energy, electric vehicles, defence manufacturing, data centres and digital infrastructure. Yet, quietly…

The Nalanda Approach must become part of India’s larger diplomatic and cultural imagination India’s rise in the twenty-first century is often discussed through the frameworks of economics, technology, military capability and geopolitics. These are important markers of national power. Yet,…

The Himalayas have long occupied a sacred place in India’s collective imagination. Towering peaks, pristine rivers, dense forests, and spiritual retreats have drawn millions of pilgrims, trekkers, and leisure travellers for generations. Destinations such as Manali, Shimla, Mussoorie, Nainital, Dharamshala,…

Realise the Economic Power of Tourism; spend more and earn more from it. It could be the game changer for the economy, says Ashish Dhawan, Founder, Ashoka University in his keynote address at the recent Oberoi Hotels’ Global Hospitality Conclave…