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Top tourism, hospitality players take pledge for travellers' safety
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SME Times News Bureau | 22 May, 2020
Top travel and hospitality companies led by MakeMyTrip on Friday came
together to make a safety pledge to prioritise safety of travellers,
maintenance of high-hygiene standards and adherence to new travel
protocols in harmony with the new normal.
The Centre has set new
safety procedures along with price points for the recommencement of
India's domestic passenger flight services from Monday.
The
expansive guidelines, notifications and circulars not just outline the
safety standards of social distancing, but also thermal screening,
passenger and air crew behaviours.
"As travel opens up in a
calibrated manner, the travel and hospitality industry is taking the
lead in committing itself to a shared responsibility of keeping
travellers safe at all travel touch points," Deep Kalra, Founder and
Group Executive Chairman of MakeMyTrip, said in a statement.
Other
key stakeholders include Ajay Singh, CMD, SpiceJet; Vinod Kannan, Head,
Vistara; Puneet Chatwal, MD & CEO, The Indian Hotels Company
Limited (IHCL); Sunil Bhaskaran, MD & CEO, Air Asia India; Anil
Chadha, COO, ITC; Vikram Oberoi, MD & CEO, The Oberroi Group; Ritesh
Aggarwal, CEO-OYO Hotels & Homes; Priya Paul, Chairperson, The Park
Hotels; and Rajni Hasija, Director, IRCTC, among others.
"As
restrictions lift and travel gradually resumes, we want to be able to
provide our customers a sense of reassurance for their safety and
well-being when they book travel again. Going forward, travellers will
be able to choose and book travel offerings with new safety standards on
the goibibo platform," said Vipul Prakash, COO, Goibibo.
The
hospitality sector and restaurants have been among the worst hit due to
the pandemic and the nationwide lockdown, but to their displeasure,
there was nothing specific for the sectors in the mega economic package
announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
Indian tourism
travel and hospitality is said to impact 10-12 per cent of employment
which is believed to cover almost 5 crore plus direct and indirect jobs.
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