Maya at India Travel Awards
East India welcomed India Travel Awards – East 2014 to celebrate the Best in the travel and tourism industry. gets the details.
After its tryst in South and West India, Maya travelled Eastwards as the India Travel Awards – East celebrated the achievements of those behind the travel and tourism industry in that part of the country.
The swanky Novotel Kolkata Hotel & Residences hosted the event which wit- nessed major players of the travel, tourism and hospitality industry in attendance. Bratya
Basu, Minister of Tourism and Culture, West Bengal, was the Chief Guest at the event while
Umapada Chatterjee, Director, West Bengal Tourism, and
Amita Motwani, Mrs India International were also present as honoured guests. Basu talked about the awards being an encouragement for the travel and tour operators in the East to help them further the cause of tourism.
Some of the big ticket winners were Jitendra Kumar
Mohanty, who got the Wall of Legends Award, JT Ramnani was the DDP Game Changer,
Apurva Salarpuria received the DDP Trailblazer award, while Debjit Dutta was named the Face of the Future.
SanJeet, Director, DDP Group, said, “Nominations were received in 95 different categories, nine new categories were created by the travel industry them- selves. When voting was finally opened, over 5,58,480 votes were received from all over the world. The total number of votes received were from 45 cou tries and 320 cities.”