Supratim Raj Basu, Founder & Director, Help Tourism, has been conferred the DDP Game Changer at the East India Travel Awards. In 1991, the dynamic gentleman founded The travel company, which pioneered sustainable development of communities through ecotourism and supported preservation of culture and nature. He was able to identify and promote destinations, based on ecotourism and is also the founder of The Association for Conservation & Tourism (ACT), a non-profit NGO initiated to promote ownership of local people highlighting the natural and cultural resources around them. Additionally, he is an expert in identifying rural tourism products, motivating communities into rural tourism services and training local stakeholders into hospitality and allied services.