Tourism Breaking News
Uttar Pradesh Chapter of IATO conducted two chapter meetings in Varanasi and in Agra on 21st of July and on the 26th of July respectively. Both the meetings were attended by about 40 members of IATO at each location and many attendees were new members who have recently joined IATO from UP. Uttar Pradesh is a very important state and in the last financial year only it has added 35 new members to the impressive membership list of IATO.
Both the meetings were conducted by Prateek Hira, the Chapter Chair of Uttar Pradesh. Guest of Honour in Varanasi meeting was Rajendra Rawat, Deputy Director – UP Tourism and similarly In the Agra Meeting the Guest of Honour was Deepti Vatsa, Regional Tourist Officer along with Harish Kumar of Ministry of Tourism, GoI.
Regional Chapter Chair, Sunil C. Gupta presided over the Agra meeting along with Prateek Hira. Uttar Pradesh Chairman of IATO and Varanasi meeting was chaired by Prateek Hira.
The meetings discussed and deliberated on issues and problems faced by members in the state of Uttar Pradesh and solutions to these were instantly provided by the attending government officers and the IATO’s Regional chairmaen Sunil C. Gupta and UP Chapter Chairman Prateek Hira.
Sunil C. Gupta enumerated the achievements of IATO and invited all members to register for the upcoming IATO Convention in Bhopal and take advantage of the knowledge sessions and familiarization tours planned thereafter.
Prateek Hira on another hand spoke about the schemes of the governments and informed the members how each of them can take advantage of the schemes after registering with the state government. He also heard all the problems being faced by the members and assured the members that each will be taken up by IATO and addressed.
In the Varanasi meeting Prof Jyoti Rana and Prof Pravin Rana of Banaras Hindu University spoke to the members regarding bridging the gap between the academia and the industry and IATO UP Chapter felicitated the two professors along with the Guest of Honour for the day in Varanasi, Rajendra Rawat and Vikas Singh of Hotel City Inn which sponsored this chapter meeting in Varanasi.
In the Agra meeting, a felicitation plaque was presented each to Sunil C. Gupta, Deepti Vatsa, Harish Kumar, Rajiv Saxena and the Management of Royale Sarovar Portico Hotel that had sponsored the Agra meeting of IATO Chapter.
Prateek Hira, Chapter Chairman of IATO said, “IATO’s strength is its members and IATO is the only travel trade body that influences the policy change and reaches the optimum benefits to its embers”
Sunil C. Gupta exhorted the members to convince the local travel trade to join IATO as IATO is a national apex body of tour operators and looks into the interest of the travel trade, plus the travel trade too gets an opportunity to network, learn and take their businesses to the next level.
Both the chairmen, Sunil C. Gupta and Prateek Hira met each member individually at the networking tea that followed this meeting and interacted with all the attending members and the special invitees individually, taking stock of issues and problems plaguing the industry and also urged them to attend this year’s IATO Convention in Bhopal from 30th of August to 2nd of September.
