North India revels with Maya

The 4th North India Travel Awards was held at The Lalit New Delhi amidst the stalwarts of the tourism industry. Chief Guest Vijay Goel, Minister of State for Statistics & Programme Implementation and Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India and Guest of Honour Shivdular Singh Dhillon, IAS, Special Secretary-cum-Director, Department of Tourism, Cultural Affairs, Archaeology, Museums & Archives, Punjab and CEO, Punjab Heritage & Tourism Promotion Board, presided over the ceremony. Krishan Kumar Amla, Chairman & MD, Broadway Enterprises was conferred the Gallery of Legends trophy while Hanneli Slabber, Regional GM, Asia, Australasia and Middle East, South African Tourism, was DDP Game Changer. Sujit Banerjee, Secretary General, WTTC, India Initiative, received the Legend in Public Service award and Pankaj Srivastava, Commercial Director & Board Member, Air India, bagged the DDP Trailblazer award. Amit Sankhala, MD, Encounters Asia, was awarded the DDP Face of the Future title.