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Sandeep Dwivedi, Chief Operating Officer, InterGlobe Technology Quotient (ITQ), shares his views on the increasing consumer sentiment to restart travel, which in turn is leading towards air traffic surge. He expects full domestic recovery to 2019 levels by end of the year. The first weeks of 2021 have renewed our …

Being an IATA Accredited agency about three decades ago was not easy– it was a milestone! But what is the value of being an IATA agent today? Have we bartered quality for quantity? Sunil B Satyawakta, Director, Civica Travels, shares his views. Some 30 years ago, for a travel agency …

Author and Critique Rama Joshi offers a compelling review of ‘What Next? Recollections of an Inveterate Voyager’, a travelogue by CP Sharma, Managing Director, Neptune Travco. Belonging to the genre of a travelogue, the book is also a kind of bildungsroman. This book is akin to a very big travel …

‘I am a sharp critic of airline commercial policies and believe they definitely need to be strongly regulated so interests of the distribution industry – GDS, travel agents and tour operators who play a pivotal role in facilitating airline consumers – are also recognised and protected,’ asserts Seema Luthra, Founder, …

Technology can help travel designers make offbeat art experiences mainstream by offering travellers a virtual one, which can be as creative and emotive as the real one, believes Kartik Gaggar, CEO & Founder, Rajasthan Studio – a platform dedicated to curating extraordinary art workshops with master artists from Rajasthan. In …

The journey of Shoba Mohan, Founder, RARE India, is not just another success story, but a vivid depiction of a small-city girl turning the tide in her favour and moving ahead, her passion intact and without compromising on family time or her love for the planet, its people and, of …

With the aviation industry slowing inching towards the part of the revival and pre-Covid operations, the upcoming festive season might be the much-needed boost to the industry. Sharing her views, Kanika Tekriwal, CEO & Founder, JetSetGo Aviation decipher queries on how the business is going to be like:  How are …

It is vital to have strong leadership and team for the tourism industry to get things done, both at the association level and at the Government level, as it plans to move forward. Sarab Jit Singh, Managing Director, Travelite (India), Unit of KTC (India) The pandemic has decimated the tourism …

My journey as a globetrotter started progressively since I was 15 years old and ended up being the anchor to my profession as a travel designer. (Travel Arena) If anyone had told us that on the morning of March 14′ 2020 we would wake up to a new world, a …

Kamlesh Barot, Director, VIE Hospitality and past President, FHRAI and HRAWI, believes that while the tourism industry has been affected terribly by the COVID-19 crisis, the true test would be after the first three months of opening, recovering from no business to at least 50 per cent of what existed, …