21/04/2020
“The travel and tourism industry, one of the global growth engines, is bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic's damage. To revive the industry, recovery of domestic travel businesses should be the first step,” said Jane Sun, Trip.com Group CEO.
On April 3, India’s Union Ministry of Tourism held a virtual conference with the industry associations of tourism and hospitality sector. Secretary Tourism Yogendra Tripathi along with senior officials of the ministry spoke to FAITH (Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism & Hospitality), as well as to representatives of CII, FICCI, PHDCCI and IMAI. The industry put forth a number of ideas and suggestions for tiding over the crisis created by COVID-19 in the sector of tourism and hospitality. Here too, the common takeaway was that a lot of thrust on promoting domestic tourism will be needed.
