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Ravi Gosain, Vice President, IATO said, “Inbound tourism has a lot of scope, it’s a value product compared to the domestic. It is very important to grow inbound parallelly to domestic tourism. The government should provide financial incentive and some facilitation in policies to help tourism industry grow.” 

Ravi Gosain, VP, IATO said, “Technology plays an important part in our lives, and travel is not different from that. In the coming years, it will change the life of travel agents and tour operators in the way they are working.” 

Ravi Gosain, Vice President, IATO, said that the tourism ministry should do overseas promotion immediately as we are sitting on an advantage when our neighbours are not doing well. positive publicity about India is the need of the hour.

Ravi Gosain, MD, Erco Travels, Tourism Enterprises and Saffron World B.V. & Vice President, IATO, has joined TravStack (Gutsytech Travel Solutions Pvt Ltd), as a Strategic Investor and Growth Consultant. Gosain said, “TravStak will help the travel agents to optimize their resources and work effectively. It will help them in doing their business by bringing technology to their fingertips.” TravStack (Gutsytech Travel Solutions Pvt Ltd), is a Travel technology Startup based out of Bangalore by 2nd time founders from IITs and other premiere institutes backed by Singapore Tourism Board, Forbes under 30 entrepreneurs and advisors from Google, Netflix etc. TravStack is on a mission to impact 1 million travel professionals. It provides readily adaptable SaaS tools for Tour Operators, Travel agents, Travel Advisors & other Travel Businesses. The product offerings includes smart Itinerary builder, white labelled travel store with CMS, holistic travel CRM with workflow automations.  All these solutions help travel and tourism professionals to improve their bandwidth, boost digital branding & improve customer buying behaviour.  Simultaneously, empowering all SMB and offline businesses with digitally transformative tech. “We are happy to onboard a tourism industry veteran Mr. Ravi Gosain as a Strategic Investor and Growth Consultant. He is currently the Managing Director, Erco Travels Pvt. Ltd, Tourism Enterprises and Saffron World B.V. He also holds a position of Vice president in IATO. His knowhow about Startups, technology and worldwide network will steer us in the right direction in terms of positioning our product to the prospective clients from travel industry. We would also appreciate his industry experience translating into product use cases and product market fit. We would like to closely work with travel and tourism associations to listen to …

In a meeting with industry associations on overseas promotions, Ministry of Tourism has proposed in that they wanted to declare 2022-23 as Visit India year, starting from August 15, 2022. “However, we suggested that it should start from January 1, 2022. If they want Visit India Year to be successful and meaningful, they should provide some incentives to the tour operators or tourists who want to visit India. Otherwise, it’d remain just a slogan,” he suggested.

IATO has finalised the list of contenders for the forthcoming election of the association on March 6. The contenders are Lally Mathews and Rajiv Mehra for President, EM Najeeb and Sarab Jit Singh for Senior VP, Lajpat Rai and Ravi Gosain for VP, Rajesh Mudgill and Rajnish Kaistha for Honorary Secretary, and Sunil Mishra and Viney Tyagi for Honorary Treasurer.

Ravi Gosain, Hony. Treasurer, IATO, has said that the Government should announce a date for reopening of visa applications for India, whether it eventually happens or not. “If they make the announcement, it will be an important step for inbound market, because it would allow people to plan well in advance. If there is a possibility of doing it in March, the should announce it now, of if they think it can open by June-August, they should announce it as soon as possible, so that professionals can work for promotions and plan something,” he advised.

Ravi Gosain, MD, Erco Travels, has said that with moratorium limit ending on 31st August, many travel companies must shut down. “Situation is very unfavourable for tourism industry. On 31st August, moratorium is ending, and most of the people, whether employees or employers took a moratorium and were expecting that something will roll out. However, things haven’t improved. From September onwards, I don’t think companies of any size are able to pay a single bill. Hence, this will be a huge setback. Hence, I am sure there will be many bankruptcies after this moratorium has ended,” he shared.

Uttarakhand Tourism Professionals Association’s (UTPA) official meet was organised in New Delhi after formal registration of the organisation as a Trust. More than 130 members joined this meet to discuss about promotion of tourism in Uttarakhand. Ravi Gosain, President, UTPA, presided over the meeting with General Secretary Sunil Bahuguna and rest of the office bearers. In the meeting all members participated enthusiastically by sharing their views and achievements in the field of tourism. Some of the members launched new camp sites, homestays and village tourism, etc. During the meet 25 more people joined UTPA & got the membership who are connected with Hospitality & Tourism. The Management committee also announced formation of five Sub Committee with different task/profiles toward the development of Tourism in Uttarakhand, promotion of its languages, its culture & festivals, the growth of villages & stop further migration, we are sure all these effort will help us to generate occupation for village people soon in near future. It was decided to sought meeting with Tourism secretary and CEO of Uttarakhand Tourism soon with a delegation to present their suggestions for promotion of Tourism and locals in Uttarakhand. UPTA also invites all tourism professionals who are associated with Uttarakhand to support and join hands with them in this mission. UTPA is recently formed to develop tourism in Uttarakhand and professionals who are working in Tourism and Hospitality sector of Uttarakhand are eligible to became members.