New Delhi, August 17, 2016: The long anticipated event, the Today’s Traveller Awards ceremony and Cover Launch of the Coffee Table Book 2016 Game Changers, was attended by Vijay Goel, Minister of State (IC), Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, who was the Chief Guest for the event.
The event was presided over by Vinod Duggal, Former Governor, Manipur, Union Home Secretary, Member National Disaster Management Authority who presented the 10th Annual Today’s Traveller Awards 2016 at the Taj Palace New Delhi.
Over 300 top-level management professionals from the Travel and Hospitality industry, as well as, heads of the Corporate world attended the grand event.
Howard Johnson Bengaluru Hebbal won the Today’s Traveller Award 2016 for Best Business Hotel in Bengaluru. The award was presented by Shri Vinod Kumar Duggal Former Hon’ble Governor Manipur, Union Home Secretary, Member National Disaster Management Authority to Mr. Rahul Rai, Executive Director, Unique Mercantile India Pvt Ltd and Mr. Rishi Neoge, General Manager, Howard Johnson Bengaluru Hebbal.
Chief Guest Vijay Goel, Minister of State (IC), Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India `joined the celebrations and took the stage to personally recognize the felicitated leaders for their achievements. Vijay Goel while congratulating the winners said,“ Every award brings both joy and responsibility. The joy of being recognised and the responsibility of setting and maintaining new bench marks.”
Today’s Traveller Awards, the most respected awards in the travel industry, has always identified and recognised the achievements and accomplishments of progressive companies and leaders from the industry. The 10th Today’s Traveller Awards recognises Game Changers who have changed the rules of the game.
The event was attended by dignitaries like Ashwani Lohani, Chairman& Managing Director, Air India; Vinod Ajmera, IAS, Commissioner Rajasthan Foundation, Department of Industries and Additional Chief of Protocol, Government of Rajasthan; Dr AK Manocha, Chairman and Managing Director, IRCTC; SP Arora, Managing Director, Tourism Finance Corporation of India; Farooq Ahmad Shah, IAS, Secretary (Tourism), Government of Jammu & Kashmir; Nidhi Mani Tripathi, IAS, Secretary (Tourism), Government of Manipur; Basanta Rajkumar, Executive Director, Punjab Heritage & Tourism Promotion Board; BM Gupta, Executive Director, Tourism Finance Corporation of India; Dr Subhash Goyal, Former President, IATO & Chairman, Stic Travel among many others.
Corporate leaders who attended the event included, Sanjay Rishi, President, American Express South Asia; Binoy Jacob, Chairman, Triune Projects Pvt Ltd; Alok Lall, Director, Microsoft India; Rajan Bahadur, Managing Director and CEO of CARE India, and many others.
The event was also privileged to have leading entrepreneurs and leaders from the Hospitality industry, such as, Dr Ramesh Kapur, Chairman and Managing Director, Radisson Blu Plaza Delhi; Ashwini Kakkar, Executive Vice Chairman Mercury Travels and Chairman Via.com; Saurabh Tak, Managing Director, RSG India; Rahul Rai, Executive Director, Unique Merchantile India Pvt Ltd; Suresh Kumar, Managing Director – Fortune Park Hotels Limited; Raj Rana, CEO, South Asia at Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group; Sunil Gupta, Chief Executive Officer, WelcomHeritage; Jal Goiporia, Vice President – Development, Rajesh Wadhawan Group (WHPL).
As part of the 19th anniversary celebrations, Today’s Traveller Awards Night had the pleasure to host its first Film Tourism Seminar and was delighted to welcome delegates from the film tourism fraternity for the panel discussion. To grace the event we had, Tanuj Garg, Founder and Managing Director, Ellipsis Entertainment; Aashish Singh, Vice President- Production, Yash Raj Films; Marijke de Souza, Executive Producer, Dharma Productions and Yogendra Mogre, Head of Production, The Walt Disney Company India.
The event was partnered and supported by Film Tourism Seminar Partner & Gold Partner IRCTC; Gold Partner Arunachal Pradesh Tourism, Film Tourism Seminar Partner Gujarat Tourism; Charity Partner CARE India; Health Care Partner Apollo Hospitals; Hospitality Partner Taj Palace New Delhi and Tourism Finance Corporation of India (TFCI).
Corporate Comm India(CCI Newswire)
