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Of
synergies and partnerships
The Indian business atmosphere is truly supercharged, whether
it's banking, retail, telecom, manufacturing or real estate.
India is the buzzword with FIIs pumping huge sums and betting
high on India Inc.
‘We
need more support from the government’
Sudesh K Khullar, the newly re-elected president of Hotel
& Restaurant Association of Eastern India (HRAEI) and
former president of FHRAI, speaks to Joy Roy Choudhury about
his expectations from the 43rd Annual Convention of the federation
‘There
is need for composite tax in place of multiple taxes’
The president of Hotels & Restaurants Association of Northern
India (HRANI), Rajindra Kumar, has proposed the department
of tourism to consider a single tax regime. By Praveen K Singh
‘Hospitality
should be given as much priority as IT’
T Nataraajan, CEO of GRT Hotels & Resorts, talks about
trends and challenges in the Tamil Nadu hospitality industry,
government support and ideas for development. By Sangeetha
Neeraja
‘There
should be a single tax structure’
Rabinder Singh Bedi, president, Hotel and Restaurant Association
Western India (HRAWI), talks to Dinkar Farwaha about the challenges
facing the industry and the initiatives he has taken as the
president of the association.
Bengal
blooms
The hospitality industry in Kolkata has never had it so good
with the average occupancy in star-category hotels hovering
at around 75 per cent, as per the latest statistics available
with HRAEI. By Joy Roy Choudhury
Exploring
new dimensions in hospitality
Businesses worldwide are facing challenges like never before.
The challenge to survive and grow is the biggest of them all.
If there is one single factor, which plays an integral part
in any business to counter to all those challenges that the
competition poses, then it has to be innovation. Express Hospitality
provides an insight into some of the innovations that the
industry has explored.
A
slice of MICE
Indian hotels are slowly waking up to the potential of Meetings,
Incentives, Conventions & Exhibitions tourism but infrastructural
constraints remain a hurdle. By Gayatri Vijaykumar
The
academic mutation
The yawning gap between the knowledge hospitality education
imparts and the industry desires is going through a correction
where courses are becoming concise; curriculum - need based;
and finally, driven by industry feedbacks. The hospitality
academic scenario is going through a reverberating change.
By Sanjeev Bhar
Incredible
Eve
Since its inception, the male-dominated hospitality industry's
vaunted warmth has been synonymous with women. Has the passage
of time bent gender roles to favour the female? Express Hospitality
explores
Synergies
at play
The Indian hospitality sector aspires to become the harbinger
of India's economic growth with support from the government.
By Praveen K Singh
Inspiring
leaders of tomorrow
To shape a new breed of leaders in hospitality, it is imperative
that the men at the helm set an example. This is especially
necessary in an industry where fickleness and attrition rule
roost. By Neeti Mehra
Making
it big
The entire process of satisfying and pleasing the customer
can be a daunting affair. This would explain the precarious
nature of running a restaurant. By Sayoni Bhaduri
Setting
standards for new luxury
With a growing network of properties worldwide, French hotel
chain Club Med has set out on a quest to reinvent the concept
of luxury. Its newly designed village speckled on the coast
of Mauritius tries to blur set notions about the hospitality
industry. By Andrea Lopez
The
ultimate destination for business travellers
If you're a frequent business traveller, you've probably stayed
in your share of boring hotels where you're lucky to have
cable, much less internet access.
Toasting
to Latin American cuisine
Imagine India without carrot, corn, pumpkin, squash, tomato,
papaya, vanilla and of course potato and chili.
A
place for some healthy fun
Are amusement parks the answer to soaring real estate prices?
What scope for development do they have in the country and
will they ever be able to replicate international theme parks?
By Varun Soni
Challenges
in designing hotels
With the expansion of hotels in different categories, the
greatest challenge to interior designers is to create something
different which is functional, will provide warmth to the
guests and will be different in terms of providing a competitive
edge over others. By Bibhash Chatterjee
What's
brewing?
What makes the perfect cuppa or what's the healthiest variety
available in the market? Here's why tea is claimed to be the
'hottest' beverage today. By Kiran Yadav
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