AHOY, ANDAMANS
INDIAN HOTELS Company has just opened a Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, Andamans, which promises paradise across 72 villas in 46 acres of forest and mangroves on the crescent shaped Radhanagar Beach. According to Puneet Chhatwal, MD and CEO, Indian Hotels Company, Andamans is slated to be one of the top places to travel in 2018. The resort offers a sustainable model of tourism. Not a single tree has been felled during the construction of the villas modelled around the indigenous Jarawa tribe’s pitch-roof stilted huts. The lobby built on stilts will greet guests to spectacular beach views and a 50-metre infinity swimming pool. Taj has also set up an on-site bottling plant eliminating the use of plastic bottles, a waste disposal system to convert wet waste to gas and compost, and a sanitation treatment plant to limit its carbon footprint.