Businessworld Tourism Summit ’18 held

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

The 1st India BW Businessworld Tourism Summit 2018 was held at The Lalit in New Delhi Monday. Dr. Annurag Batra, BW Businessworld’s Chairman and CEO, formally welcomed all the guests and announced that after the summit, BW Businessworld is going to Relaunch Rail Bandhu (The Onboard Magazine of Indian Railways). BW will now publish the monthly railway magazine.

 
Speaking about the challenges in acquiring Rail Bandhu, Dr. Batra said, “The distribution of Rail Bandhu is a challenge but now along with RK Group’s collaboration and BW’s better editorial output, we will make a difference.”

 
While summarising, he did speak about the travel tech start-ups which he opined can also determine the future course of travel.

 
Following to the inaugural speech, Avijit Arya, founder of Internet Moghuls gave the keynote address on Tourism: The X factor & GDP Growth Driver, he said that tourism was a growing market in India and people who dare to think differently will only be surviving.

 
Arya went on to add that more than half of the world’s population is under the age of 30 and around 90% of those youngsters live in countries that are developing and most haven’t travelled. He too said that more people than ever in human history can travel globally.

 
While speaking about the future of tourism, he said that along with conventional tourism, emerging forms of tourism like Astro Tourism, Sports Tourism and Religious & Spiritual Tourism are changing the face of this industry

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