With digital transformation emerging as a key catalyst for the revival of the hospitality and travel industry in the aftermath of Covid-19, Sabre Hospitality has been helping hoteliers to reduce costs with their industry leading platforms. Hospitality Biz spoke with Scott Wilson, President of Hospitality Solutions, Sabre to understand how technology can be a path to recovery for hotels in the aftermath of Covid. What products from Sabre Hospitality will aid the growth of the hotel industry in India amid changing booking patterns? At Sabre, we’re committed to building a new marketplace for personalised travel by enabling our partners to…
Author: Asmita Mukherjee
Tamara Leisure Experiences, a new entrant in the hospitality industry is currently on an expansion drive. Shruti Shibulal, the young CEO & Director of Tamara Leisure Experiences said that despite Covid-19 and its devastating impacts, the brand has managed to plan its third Tamara Resort, which is an Ayurvedic centre on the backwaters of Alleppey, Kerala. The brand also aims to add 1,000 keys to its kitty by 2025. Speaking about her journey with the brand Shibulal said, “My journey to becoming the CEO of Tamara Leisure Experiences was quite organic. I had just completed an MBA at Columbia when…
India has lot of unexplored destinations waiting to be explored and discovered. It is time to focus and promote such domestic destinations, says Sunjukta Chakraborty, CEO, Delaire (a new tourism representation company), in an interview with Prasenjit Chakraborty. Q. Your view on the representation business against the backdrop of the pandemic? A. Yes, definitely the representation sector did get hit hard, but everything is a learning curve; these testing times do inspire us to work a lot harder. It has also shown us in what different ways we can approach our clients and market them differently. Q. What changes have…
For May 2021, India’s domestic passenger traffic is estimated at ~19-20 lakh, implying a sequential decline of ~65-67% compared to ~57.3 lakh in April 2021. With this, the domestic passenger traffic reached lower than the June-July 2020 levels. The airlines’ capacity deployment for May 2021 was lower by ~54-55% compared to April 2021 (~27,700 departures in May 2021, against ~60,300 departures in April 2021), indicating the lower demand stemming from averseness of consumers to travel due to the rise in infections. According to Kinjal Shah, Vice President & Co-Group Head, ICRA, “For May 2021, the average daily departures were ~900,…
The European Union’s (EU) technical system responsible for the verification of the security features contained in the QR codes of all EU Digital COVID Certificates has gone live with seven EU Member States a month ahead of the deadline for its implementation. From June 1, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Croatia and Poland have connected to the gateway and started issuing the first EU COVID-19 travel certificates, while certain countries have decided to launch the document only when all functions are deployed nationwide. According to a press release of the EU Commission on the milestone, more countries will join the…
With a “nimble” approach, Vistara is focussing on a leaner cost-structure as well as exploring newer avenues to supplement earnings, its CEO Leslie Thng has said and emphasised that full-service carriers are even more relevant in the current COVID scenario. The Delhi-based airline, which entered the domestic aviation space in January 2015, aims to have 70 planes in its fleet by 2023. In an e-mail interaction with PTI, Thng said that full service carriers look to be relevant more in the current scenario due to less density of seats in the cabins. With the pandemic, there is increased focus on…
TOFT India, the nature based travel trade alliance focusing on driving more sustainable travel in South Asia, has launched the internationally-recognised Travelife programme to help drive up tour operation standards in India’s tourism sector. “India’s track record on travel and tourism sustainability is very poor, according to the latest UNWTO report 2019, far behind many of its competitors, including Sri Lanka. So being able to bring a respected international partner to India, together with our own accommodation certification programme, means we are now ready to drive up eco-standards and work with states and destinations to help them develop better ecotourism…
The Netherlands on Tuesday lifted the ban on passenger flights from India. The ban was imposed on April 26 in view of rising Covid-19 cases in India. “As per the Dutch Government ban on passenger flights from India that had come into force on April 26, 2021, has been lifted w.e.f 01 June 2021,” the Indian Embassy in Amsterdam tweeted. However, there is still a European Union ban on non-EU travelers from countries where the coronavirus situation is considered very high risk. The Netherlands had on April 26 decided to suspend India flights as “the epidemiological situation on the ground…
Travellers on direct flights from such destinations will now go through Terminal 3 and then move directly to a government-approved quarantine facility booked at the passengers’ own expense, reports PTI. London’s busy Heathrow Airport opened a dedicated new terminal on Tuesday for arrivals from countries designated as “red list”, such as India, for a higher risk of COVID-19 transmission. Travellers on direct flights from such destinations will now go through Terminal 3 and then move directly to a government-approved quarantine facility booked at the passengers’ own expense. This move comes after the London airport’s staff had raised fears for their…
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchising company with over 8,900 hotels across nearly 95 countries today announces the signing of Ramada Encore by Wyndham in Indore. Indore is the most populous and largest city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and is situated approximately 190 km west of the state capital of Bhopal. In the last two decades, it has become a major education hub in central India and is home to campuses of both the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Management. Indore is also a commercial centre for goods and…