Category: Interview

The 23-year-old Parth Upadhyaya came hitting my thoughts with his fundraising campaign in ketto, for the upcoming Eco Everest Expedition 2019. Parth, is planning to climb the Mount Everest, supporting a great cause called #ClimbForGood. Parth aims to help underprivileged kids taking them for trips and introduce them the beauty of nature through his fundraising platform. Mountaineering is a very expensive sport and the expedition to Everest costs Rs 30 lakh rupees which is almost 43,000 USD. Out of which, Parth is now short of Rs 12 lakh rupees with just 40 days for the big climb. Born and brought up ... Read more

Praveen Menon, General Manager of CRB Hotels Kochi, is a man of discipline, modest and, there is no air attached to him. A great team leader who has around 17 years of experience in the hospitality industry, he ensures his team is motivated, and gives ample importance to even the tiniest of the details needed. Know him more through this chit chat… Tell us about your career path. How did you start your journey with hospitality industry?  After completing my Diploma in Hotel Management, I did my Internship with ITC Group Sheraton towers Chennai and later joined Winchester Grand Hotel Apartments, Dubai as front ... Read more

There are people who just don’t live their lives, but try to make a signature on whatever things they do. They will always have their own way of dealing with things. Raja Gopaal Iyer, CEO of Uday Samudra Leisure Beach Hotel and Spa, Kovalam, is such a soul. Raj, as he is known among people, always has a different outlook on doing things. His way of managing people is also unique. According to Raja Gopaal Iyer, Managers should not be just bosses, but leaders. He is a true leader who inspires others to dare to dream and excel better. Phentermine without ... Read more

Tania Sahu, a very passionate woman who loves food and travel, is making waves in social media with her food thoughts, reviews and travel diaries. She is a very expressive, and is one such an exciting person to strike a conversation with, anytime, anywhere. Arya Aravind catches up with the straight forward, humorous and bubbly Tania Sahu. Excerpts from the conversation… Could you please tell us about the story behind your blogging? Being a single child I was too much pampered for the last 26 years. But things got changed when I got married and shifted to Hyderabad from Kolkata. My ... Read more

Harish in Jaisalmer Harish Bali is a techie turned traveller from Delhi, who is in search of the different tastes of India.  A blogger and Youtuber with thousands of fan base, Harish has an interesting life story like in films. After working in sales in consumer durable, FMCG, telecom and internet marketing, he has started his own start up in Feb 2014 in digital marketing. Harish started his journey with blogs through www.technofare.com, which was a tech guide. Harish  started two YouTube channels – ‘Digital Spot’ and ‘visa2explore’ – in November 2016, where he shares his experience as a techie ... Read more

The first ever India Tourism Mart, organized by the Ministry of Touism, Govt of India, is the brainchild of K J Alphons, Minister of State for Tourism. “The Tourism Mart aims at attracting more tourists to the country,” said the minister while talking to Tourism News Live in an exclusive interview. Minister Piyush Goyal will inaugurate the first edition of India Tourism Mart in Delhi on September 17. The Mart also aims at bringing together the Indian tourism industry to the international players. While the international tourist arrivals grew by a remarkable 7 per cent in 2017 to reach a ... Read more

B Dileep Kumar, Chief Editor of Tourism News Live, interacts with K J Alphons, Minister for Tourism at his office in New Delhi Union Tourism Minister Alphons Kannanthanam said Kerala Tourism, which is in crisis after the floods, will get the best possible assistance from the ministry of tourism. “Kerala will be given special attention in the first Tourism Mart in New Delhi. The tourism sector in Kerala is coming back from the devastating floods in a tremendous speed,” said the minister while talking exclusively to Tourism News Live. “It is that time of the year where the Neelakurinji has ... Read more

Rahul Ramachandran (Right) at shooting location Meet Rahul Ramachandran, probably the youngest director in the Malayalam film industry. With his debut film ‘Jeem Boom Baa’, he is about to fulfil his lifetime dream to become a film maker. Hailing from the hospitality industry, 25 year old Rahul, with his young team is going to hit the silver-screen by February 2019. Interestingly all those in the technical team are from Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala. Rahul shares his exciting journey which matches with a thrilling screenplay, with Manoj Attingal of Tourism News Live… Poster of Jeem Boom Baa What made ... Read more

Bharat Kumar Regmi, Charge d’Affaires, Embassy of Nepal in New Delhi says he is surprised by Kerala. “The greens of the state has stole my heart when I looked it from the flight,” said the Nepal envoy who is visiting Kerala for the first time. “If Kerala is blessed with green hillocks, Nepal is captivating because of its snow-capped mountains. And, the coconut trees in Kerala are a match to the tall pine trees in Nepal,” he compares both the countries and says both has unique features which attracts travellers. He had an interaction with the Chief Minister of the state, ... Read more

It’s from her father that Salila Sukumaran started taking the basic lessons of yoga. Later, she started taking the lessons as part of her corporate management training while she was taking her hotel management training in Delhi. “Yoga came to my life, uninvited. But, once I started practicing yoga in a consistent way, it made me feel strong internally and physically that I knew there’s something amazing about yoga that I had tapped into without knowing that I was tapping into it,” said Salila while she was touring Kerala during the Yoga Ambassadors Tour 2018. Yoga Ambassadors Tour was an ... Read more

Elissa Chrisson from Australia, says yoga has changed her life in a very positive way. Elissa was the star performer during the Yoga Ambassadors Tour, organized by ATTOI. Elissa was one of the delegates touring Kerala with the Yoga Ambassadors Tour. The event was organized in association with the Ministry of AYUSH and Kerala Tourism. The event, aimed to propagate Kerala as a global destination, is taking around 60-plus Yoga professionals from across the world to different destinations in Kerala to experience yoga and learn more about yoga. The 10-day educational tour concluded on International Yoga Day  June 21. The ... Read more

  Yogachemmal Dr. Meena Ramanathan is a yoga therapist and a consultant in yoga, and is also the Deputy Director at CYTER (Centre for Yoga Therapy Education and Research), Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Pondichery. She has been practicing and teaching yoga since 2004. Dr Meena took a wonderful session on the subject ‘Yoga Therapy: Its principles & practices’ at the International Conference on Yoga, conducted as part of the Yoga Ambassadors Tour 2018, organized by ATTOI, in association with Ministry of Ayush and Kerala Tourism in Kovalam. Manoj Attingal of Tourism News Live catches up with Dr Meena to know more ... Read more

Karita Aaltonen hails from Finland, which is one of the world’s most northern and geographically remote countries and is considered the birthplace of Santa Claus. Like the Santa from the mythical mountains of Korvatunturi, Karita is all smiles, bringing love and cheer to the people around her. She’s in Kerala for the 10-day Yoga Ambassadors Tour, oganized by ATTOI (Association of Tourism Trade Organisations, India), Ministry of Ayush and Kerala Tourism. Neeraja Sadanandan from Tourism News Live catches up with her to find more about the cheerful Karita. Read on… Karita has started practicing yoga almost 20 years back. “But I’ve ... Read more

Kerala Tourism is all set to introduce a new brand ambassador, says P Bala Kiran, IAS, Director, Kerala Tourism at ITB Berlin exclusively to Tourism News Live. “A new campaign will be launched in the coming months with a new brand ambassador to promote Kerala to the globetrotters across the world,” he said. The department had earlier announced that it has plans to rope in a celebrity artiste or a sports person, and not a global face. At present, most number of travellers are visiting the central and south Kerala. The Kerala Tourism department is planning to promote the unexplored Northern ... Read more

In an exclusive interview to Tourism News Live, the Canadian footballer who has been winning the hearts of soccer lovers across Kerala, says he is mesmerised by the beauty of the God’s own Country after spending a day in the backwaters of Alappuzha. Jobin Joseph, Director of Spice Routes with Iain Hume. Phot Courtesy: Spice Routes Iain Hume spent a day in the newly launched luxury houseboat of Spice Routes with his wife Christine and children Alyssa Fay and Keira. “It was a great experience and I am gonna come back again,” says a very excited Hume. Hume is all ... Read more