New Delhi, September 12, 2025: luxury glamping resort nestled in Mussoorie’s serene hills, has been honored with an Elephant at the 2025 Kyoorius Design Awards for its innovative ‘Mapped & Served’ tableware collection, setting a new standard for heritage-driven hospitality design in India’s competitive resort market.
The award-winning ‘Mapped & Served’ tableware collection tells the story of how the world’s highest peak got its name. Working with strategic design partner: Tonic Worldwide, the resort has woven this narrative directly into the guest experience at a sensory level, rather than treating their location’s history as mere background.
Located at the historic foothills of Sir George Everest’s peak—the original site of India’s Great Trigonometrical Survey—Everest Base Camp has pioneered ‘living heritage hospitality’.
“Everyone who hears about it thinks about the climb, but we are the keepers of the real peak story,” said Jai Mittal, Owner of Everest Base Camp, Mussoorie. “Tonic Worldwide has played a pivotal role in bringing alive this story through seamless integration of design and narrative, embedding history into a functional dining experience and transporting our guests to a bygone era. We are delighted with our blockbuster win at KDA’25 and can’t wait to reveal what’s coming up next.”
Chetan Asher, Founder & CEO, Tonic Worldwide said, “We are great believers in the power of original design craft, and this was one such unique story which couldn’t have been told through some static display or a coffee table book. The ‘Mapped & Served’ tableware collection transforms a routine dining experience into a guided tour of Everest’s surveying legacy, with every bite and sip. It’s a conversation-starter, story-teller and memory maker put together as one. The win at KDA’25 awards strengthens our resolve to put EBC’s narrative at the global stage.”
The resort is extending this design-led storytelling philosophy across all guest touchpoints, reimagining every element of the property into thoughtfully designed spaces where every detail serves as both functional hospitality and historical narrative.
Corporate Comm India (CCI Newswire)
