Share List Sandip Hor While looking at some of the inviting Aussie landscapes on television during the coverage of the recently concluded cricket series with Australia, the craving to visit down under at the end of the COVID19 pandemic must have intensified among many of the potential Indian travellers. InContinue Reading
Share List Parmita Uniyal Other than his office boy, Harjinder Singh who runs travel firm 24×7 Travels.com from a small office in South Delhi’s Kalkaji Colony has let all five of his staff go as he does not hope travel business would take off for at least a year. HeContinue Reading
Share List Deepti Singhal New Delhi: Online travel aggregator MakeMyTrip sees MICE (Meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) recovering from at slowest pace from Coronavirus-induced crisis in the travel and tourism sector due to adoption of remote working and virtual meetings. “MICE will be the slowest recovering segment in events andContinue Reading
Share List Sandip Hor Sydney: The Australian Tourism Restart Taskforce, recently created to co-ordinate and reinforce the industry response to the COVID-19 crisis, has just released a timetable which if accepted by all parties may see Australians travelling to New Zealand and other Pacific countries from as early as 1Continue Reading
Share List Parmita Uniyal New Delhi: Reeling under deep financial crisis triggered by Coronavirus-induced lockdown, travel and hospitality sector has asked the government to allow one-time loan restructuring and extend moratorium on loan repayments till March 2021. The demand has come from industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) whichContinue Reading
Share List Parmita Uniyal It is perhaps a beautiful nightmare. There is an eerie calm all around the city of New York. Streets continue to intersect each other the way it did just a few days back but not the people any more. Very few of them are now daringContinue Reading
Share List Sandip Hor “Where do we go for our next holiday – the living room or the bedroom?” asks a little kid to his parents. The family of three in New Delhi are spending time in their two bedroom apartment watching Ramayana on TV when the entire country isContinue Reading
Share List Sandip Hor Once again I am back in one of my favourite nests in the world – Hanoi – the captivating capital city of Vietnam teeming with history and where traditions and culture shake hands with modernity. It’s a Sunday morning and a sense of leisure is ripplingContinue Reading
Share List Sandip Hor Kissing the fabled Brahmaputra River in the north-eastern state of Assam, the Kaziranga National Park is home to world’s largest population of the scarce ‘one horned’ rhinoceros. A century ago, these species were nearing extinction, mainly because of excessive poaching for the illegal horn trade. HoweverContinue Reading
Share List Sandip Hor When it comes to a short and quick vacation, nearby Thailand pops in as a popular destination for Indian holidaymakers – main drawcards being food, shopping, Buddhist temples and pagodas with golden towers, sandy beaches and lots of fun. Popular locations like capital Bangkok, Chiang Mai,Continue Reading