THE RISE OF ANOTHER VIRUS

Anurag Yadav Tuesday, 21 September 2021, 10:05 AM

  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 Continue Reading

A Paradigm shift in Tourism Marketing

Dr Nimit Chowdhary Monday, 2 August 2021, 12:00 PM

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

INDIAS CROWN JEWAR

Anurag Yadav Friday, 30 July 2021, 11:00 AM

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

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 horses […]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