By Ansoo Gupta founder of OneShoe Trust September 27 is marked as world tourism day every year. But this year, World Tourism Day comes as a grim reminder of the uncertainties that we face together as an industry. While tourism is restarting and we are seeing signs of recovery almost everywhere, Continue Reading
What is happening in Afghanistan is the onset of another affliction for the world’s ailing tourism economy. It was at a CAPA conference at Mumbai in the earlier part of this century where I met a young man from Kabul whose calling card mentioned his name in only one word- Javed. His designation was […]Continue Reading
Consumers and marketers in tourism both grew conscious during the COVID pandemic and consensed that it would be a new normal. As a result, our ways of consuming tourism experiences and transacting business will see a change. As the first wave of the pandemic showed signs of subsiding, there were mad rushes to popular destinations […]Continue Reading
Indian aviation’s’ game-changing move is a treasure in the making. Let us try to spin some positivity in bad news. Reading the figures given by CAPA, one can say the percentage increase between last fiscal’s losses for Indian airlines over this year is not much. Last year it was USD 3.9 billion, this year it […]Continue Reading
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 horses […]Continue Reading
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
