Trendy Travel Trade with Food & Shop Volume VII • Issue VII • August 2020 • Pages 64 • Rs.100/- Glore of Indian Festivals Address: Good Wood Estate, Lower Bharari Road, Bharari Road, Shankli, Longwood, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh 171001 Phone:0177 265 9012 Royal Journey of India Archaeological Tour of Majestic Kerala Enchanting Himalayas Tribal Trail Buddhist Temple with 18 to 20 Nights Rajasthan 14 to 15 Nights with Taj 15 to 17 Nights North East India Tour Mumbai – Mangalore – Bekal – Wayanad Bhubaneswar - Dangmal - Bhubaneswar 21 to 23 Nights 13 to 15 Nights 14 to 16 Nights Delhi - Jaipur - Pushkar – Ranthambore – Kozhikode(Calicut) - Baliguda Delhi – Jaipur – Samode – Nawalgarh – Delhi - Agra - Darjeeling - Gangtok - Delhi - Varanasi -Bodhgaya - Patna Sawai Madhopur – Kota – Cochin – Thekkady – Kumarakom– - Rayagada - Jeypore - Rayagada - Bikaner – Gajner – Jaisalmer – Osian Phuntsholing - Thimphu - Punakha - -Kolkata - Bagdogara - Darjeeling - Bundi - Chittorgarh - Bijaipur - Quilon – Varkala – Kovalam Gopalpur - Puri – Bhubaneswar Udaipur - Kumbalgarh - Jodhpur - – Khimsar – Manvar – Jodhpur – Rohet – Paro - Delhi - Pelling (Pemayangtse)- Gangtok - Jaisalmer - Bikaner - Mandawa – Delhi Mount Abu – Udaipur – Dungarpur Kalimpong -Bagdogra – Delhi – Deogarh – Ajmer – Pushkar – Pachewar – Ranthambhore – Agra – Delhi Contact @ :+91- 9899359708, 9999683737, info@ travokhohlidays.com, [email protected], www.travok.net PUBLISHER'S NOTE Trendy Travel Trade with Food & Shop Volume VII • Issue VII • August 2020 • Pages 64 • Rs.100/- Editor & Publisher : Vedika Sharma Director: Babita Sharma Senior Editor : Tarsh Sharma Reporter : Parul Malhotra Consulting Editor(West) : S K Mishra Consultant Art Director : Anita Mudgal Graphic Designer : Sangeeta Arya Dear Reader, the COVID-19 business environment Consulting Photographer : Ganesh Kapri in order to ensure employee’s and T3FS August issue 2020 is focusing customer’s health and safety and enhance Manager Administration : Gaurav Kumar on the festivals of India. Festivals are customer’s willingness to patronize expressive way to celebrate glorious their business. By keeping MICE and Manager Circulation : Himanshu Mudgal heritage, culture & traditions and witness New Normal of Wedding in mind T3FS so many international tourists, so as in comes up with the view of the experts E-mail : [email protected], [email protected] OUR TEAM OUR India. about how COVID 19 affect the MICE India - a land of festivals, is well business and what they are expecting Website : www.fabianmedia.net known all over the world as a country from the government of India to support of cultural and traditional festivals, them in such crises. enthusiastic celebrations of gods and In lifestyle, we covered the start- goddesses, saints and prophets, history, up innovation to fight COVID 19. culture and the advent of new seasons The Covid-19 pandemic has had an Editorial & Marketing Office: occur almost daily throughout the unprecedented impact on the Indian Fabian Media Pvt. 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The publisher reserves the right to refuse , withdraw or otherwise deal with all advertisement without the hospitality industry is facing many with the start-up's views on the same. explanation. All advertisement must comply with the Indian challenges to run hotels in a sustainable advertisement code. The publisher will not be liable for any loss way due to COVID 19. Hospitality caused by any delay in publication, error or failure of advertisement businesses are expected to make to appear. important changes to their operations in VedikaSharma [email protected] Runway to get the trends of current .scenario Get live updates of all travel & lifestyle trends at .your fingertips CONTENTSPg12 Pg32 Pg10 Glore of Indian Festival Impact of COVID 19 Survival and Revival of on MICE Tourism Pg42 Pg46 NEXA: S-Cross Petrol Pg26 Pg54 COVID 19: Impact on Start-up Ecosystem Wedding Trends Aviation of 2020 6 trendy travel trade with food & shop August 2020 300 years of Old Elegant Fortified Palace Hotel Luxury Heritage Hotel It revives the gracious lifestyle of princes of Rajasthan and the heritage of India. Destination Wedding Leisure Stay Film-Shoot CHOMU PALACE HOTEL Chomu, Distt : Jaipur ( Rajasthan ) Tel: +91-1423 300 300 Fax: +91-1423 300 400, Mobile : +91-9001094081, 9782056789, [email protected] October 2018 trendy travel trade with food & shop 7 Trade Line FAITH: Worst period ever for tourism in 100 years Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism & Hospitality, the policy federation of all the national associations representing the complete tourism, travel and hospitality industry of India (ADTOI, ATOAI, FHRAI, HAI, IATO, ICPB, IHHA, ITTA, TAAI, TAFI) & cause partner AIRDA has further revised upwards its value at risk to Indian tourism to Rs.15 lakh crores. FAITH’s first guidance which was calculated and was shared with the Government in March 2020 had put tourism’s economic value at risk at Rs. 5 lakh crores from this pandemic. FAITH revised this further during the quarter as the situation deteriorated and the value at risk was put at Rs. 10 lakh crores. This has been revised again to touch a value at risk of upto Rs. 15 lakh crores in terms of the economic output of tourism in India given the way the virus is progressing, tourism supply chains have broken down in India across all its key inbound, domestic & outbound markets and is not expected to recover for the next 5 months too making the total impact to a minimum of 9 months starting from March this year. The direct and indirect economic impact of Tourism industry in India is approximately estimated at ~ 10% of India’s GDP. This roughly puts the full-year economic multiplier value of tourism in India at ~ Rs. 20 lakh crores. Minimum three-quarters of tourism will be fully impacted This value covers the whole tourism value chain from airlines, travel agents, hotels, tour operators, tourism destinations restaurants, tourist transportation, tourist guides. Each of these segments of tourism is non - performing or underperforming and will stay that way for many months of this year. OTOAI request Embassies for issuing Gratis Visas The prevailing times are exceptionally tough and challenging for all of us and more so for the tourism industry across the globe, which was the first to be hit and will take a long time to recover. From loss of job to loss of business, travel fraternity is desperately grappling with the situation, constantly finding ways and means to keep themselves afloat. Because of the global impact of the Pandemic, people are scared to travel and many travellers have lost money over holiday bookings that they could not undertake. OTOAI, standing tall to its commitment of always being there for its members and doing every possible effort to boost Outbound Tourism sector in India, recently wrote a letter to mainly all European Embassies in India, requesting them to issue Gratis Visas to all those travellers who despite having a valid travel visa could not undertake the planned holiday. Riaz Munshi, President, OTOAI There are many travellers who had their travel plans scheduled for the period between March – July 2020. These travellers had already applied and received their Visas for the Travel but as we know, were unable to carry on with their travel plans.OTOAI has written to most of the European Embassy requesting them to issue a Gratis Visa to the visitors who despite having paid and processed the Visa fee and due procedure, could not undertake the journey for reasons known to all of us. PATA action towards tourism recovery The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) is calling upon all industry stakeholders from both the public and private sectors to work more closely together towards the recovery of the travel and tourism industry. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, PATA has been in regular discussions with various industry organisations, partners and associations to work towards this the goal. One such result of these discussions had been the launch of the expanded PATA Crisis Resource Center, created with the support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Through consultation with other potential partners, PATA hopes to add further resources that will be useful to organisations as they deal with the current situation. “COVID-19 is the greatest single crisis in the history of travel and tourism.