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Indian School of Hospitality welcomes close to two hundred school and professional counsellors to its Gurugram campus for the seventh edition of the Counsellors’ Retreat. The retreat takes place over four days this month and represents the largest national gathering of counsellors for hospitality and culinary education in India. The scale reflects a growing recognition of hospitality as a discipline that draws from culture, business, behaviour, design, food studies, and leadership. ISH presents its academic philosophy of liberal hospitality to counsellors who guide student choices across the country. Liberal hospitality places people, culture, experience, and curiosity at the centre of learning. It brings interdisciplinary rigor through subjects that include psychology, anthropology, communication, entrepreneurship, technology, and food studies. This approach prepares students to think, analyse, collaborate, and lead in India’s fast-growing service economy. The retreat features workshops, conversations, and specialised sessions that give counsellors a direct view of how ISH builds academic depth across hospitality and culinary arts. Faculty members present their teaching frameworks. Students share their learning journeys. Alumni reflect on their career pathways in hotels, restaurants, consumer brands, technology platforms, and service-led businesses. The sessions also include capability building workshops that support counsellors who advise students in an evolving career landscape shaped by new industries and new opportunities. The seventh edition marks an important moment for hospitality education in India. The participation of nearly ~125 counsellors signals a shift in how families and schools view hospitality and culinary arts. These fields now attract students who seek global careers and leadership roles in industries that rely on creativity, human connection, and interdisciplinary thinking. The retreat reinforces ISH’s long term vision of placing hospitality and culinary education inside India’s mainstream higher …

The Indian School of Hospitality (ISH) hosted the third edition of its annual business conclave, IMPACT 2025, bringing together industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and academics to explore how empathy and culture influence leadership, performance, and learning in a fast-changing world. Built around the theme Culture 360°, the conclave examined how trust, identity, and human connection shape decision-making, motivation, and collaboration across workplaces. “Culture is empathy in action,” said Kunal Vasudeva, Co-Founder and Managing Director of ISH. “It is invisible but lives in every interaction. When empathy fades, culture weakens. True culture begins at the top and must be nurtured across every layer of an organization.” Two flagship panel discussions anchored the day’s dialogue. Culture as Currency: Redefining Organizational Values for a Changing Workforce featured Sanjay Bose, Executive Vice President and Head of HR at ITC Hotels, and Satish Kumar, Senior Director – People and Culture at Accor India and South Asia. The Future Workplace: Culture in the Age of AI, Hybrid Work, and Gen Z featured Yuvaraj Srivastava, Group CHRO at MakeMyTrip, and Amaresh Singh, Head HR – APAC at GE Vernova Power Transmission, with Kunal Vasudeva as moderator. Beyond discussion, IMPACT 2025 reinforces ISH’s purpose of building a living bridge between academia and industry. Insights shared on stage evolve into primary research, faculty studies, and classroom projects that influence how hospitality and service education adapt to new realities. The loop continues when findings return to industry as frameworks, case studies, and leadership practices. The conclave also showcased ISH’s creative energy through its four signature experiences: Frames of Culture: student-produced short films and documentaries on cultural narratives. HRmageddon: a strategy challenge celebrating people leadership. The Cultural Palette: an art-meets-identity showcase through …