TravTalk India Online Magazine
With the fear of the new variant, tourism and hospitality sector of India is witnessing a slow growth in business. Swosti Group is positive and confident about 2022.
Janice Alyosius
As the Indian wedding season is here, hotels are expecting the business to improve. The government has increased the gathering capacity limits, which has really helped the hotels.
“We have been flooded with mails and enquiries from guests for marriage bookings and all hotels of Swosti Group are blocked on all marriage dates and on non saya dates. We are booked to full capacity till the year-end,” said JK Mohanty, Chairman and Managing Director, Swosti Group, Chairman IATO, Eastern Region & Chairman, Hotel & Restaurant Association of Odisha.
Talking about the business in 2021, Mohanty mentioned that the Swosti Group is coming up with a Luxury Resort Property on the beach in Puri.
“Puri is an important place and is the tourist capital of Odisha. Presently there are no five-star hotels and Odisha is missing out in attracting high-end tourists to Puri. To fill up this gap, the Swosti Group has planned this resort in the right moment and we hope to complete the project as early as possible. The Swosti Group is confident of making the Puri project a success because the in-house travel company, M/s Swosti Travels, established in the year 1986 is already linked with all domestic and international tour operators,” he said.
Speaking of the expectations from 2022, Mohanty said, “After facing severe setbacks caused by COVID-19, the tourism as well as the hospitality industry is recovering slowly. In the coming year 2022, I forecast that business travel will grow. Further vaccine booster and vaccination plans for children will increase more travel both domestic as well as international tourists”.
It is a great opportunity for the Eastern India to showcase its vast and rich tourism potential at the IATO Annual Convention which is being conducted physically after COVID-19,” said Mohanty, speaking about the convention.
