Instant Jabs & Instant Changes – Insurance Holds the Key

Hector Dsouza Friday, 16 July 2021, 12:00 PM

By Hector D’souza The word `jabs’ has now become `passe’ or so normal when people say they’ve been `jabbed’, few shut the eyelids! The target is to `jab’ the whole world in perhaps the next one year. This is the good news; however, those in the travel industry will need to rein in their Continue Reading

A Highway Harangue

Anurag Yadav Monday, 12 July 2021, 11:00 AM

The joys of launching amazing highways in India will be still-born unless the users are made to live up to it. India leads the world in traffic-related deaths. In fact the high rate of accidents and bad state of roads drags back the GDP by at least 3 points. In the light of the above […]Continue Reading

Effectuate!

Dr Nimit Chowdhary Saturday, 10 July 2021, 11:00 AM

These are challenging times. The world, including tourism, has almost come to a standstill hurting tourism jobs and people dependent on the sector indirectly. An overwhelming majority of service providers and servers have been idle and waiting for tourism to resume; their misery increased with every passing day. While some decided to continue at a […]Continue Reading

Overlanding is Here to Stay!

Dr Nimit Chowdhary Wednesday, 23 June 2021, 11:00 AM

Dr Nimit Chowdhary, Professor of Tourism, Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Jamia Millia Islamia     Among various predictions made for the new normal of tourism, a few ideas stood out and received approval from futurologists. Post COVID tourism would observe conscious travellers- conscious of their safety and conscious of not harming the nature. Continue Reading

A JAB BETWEEN THE RIBS

Anurag Yadav Monday, 21 June 2021, 11:00 AM 0

    The virus is exposing global fault lines in tourism policies, health infrastructure, political commentary and wishful thinking. It’s no news that travel business worldwide has been crushed like never before with the advent of the pestilence from Wuhan. The global concerted response has, alas, been clearly missing for a long time. The developed […]Continue Reading

Mythbusters: Recovery Edition – Part I

Mark Lewis-Brown Thursday, 17 June 2021, 12:41 PM 0

By Mark Lewis-Brown, CEO & President, Vertical Booking USA There are lots of messages out there, in the hospitality industry now, about what hotels need to do, or what technology they need to buy, to reach recovery more quickly. Some of these messages are accurate and others… questionable. But don’t you worry… I’ve got you […]Continue Reading