Amidst the COVID-10 second wave, a meaningful push for India’s travel and hospitality market has been largely missing. People are cautious about stepping out of their residences even to invest in simple necessities. With the travel and hospitality segment witnessing but a different blow due to the second wave, luxury hotels and wellness centres have been taking a lot of actions to safeguard their employees and guests through the second wave of the pandemic.
According to Nikhil Kapur, Founder and Director, Atmantan Wellness Centre, “This time around, the sentiment has weakened a lot as the majority of the people have seen severe illness/death from close quarters. Hence, the outlook is poor in the next 1-3 months. After a critical mass has been vaccinated, I see a big pick up in travel. Incidentally, once vaccination is done in other countries too, international travel should pick as early as Oct/Nov 21.”
In his view, travel is probably to choose up when people today get started travelling for enhancing their overall health/therapy of ailments to wellness centres like Atmantan and Nature experiences to offbeat places.
Notably, Atmantan is a GOLD LEED certified project.
“I count on people today to travel and pick out their travel location more mindfully going forward. The hospitality sector will take a when to revive but I count on the wellness sector to revive more prominently. One of the greatest alterations anticipated is the exponential development of the digital services and it will be intriguing to see how the travel and hospitality industries bring this in, “ Nikhil Kapur tells TheSpuzz Online.
In this exclusive interaction with TheSpuzz Online, Nikhil Kapur delves deep into how a residential centre like Atmantan has teamed up with passionate and skilled men and women to provide a transformative encounter and how they use some sophisticated diagnostics machines to assessment improvement in overall health parameters or overall performance.
Notably, he highlights their not too long ago launched tele-medicine platform – Atmantan Naturals which gives a comprehensive overall health remedy as it incorporates digital therapeutics as well.
What is the guiding vision that has led to ‘Atmantan’?
The vision was to build a location exactly where people today can get properly, when not feeling ostracised or depressed… a location exactly where they would in reality be applauded and encouraged for taking this step towards self-wellness.We felt a location like that didn’t exist a location one that gives accurate outcome-oriented wellness in a organic properly-replenished haven. We wanted to build a location for deep transformations of the atma (soul), mana (thoughts) and tann (body).
‘Atmantan’ in its name and supplying is the holistic amalgamation of the atma, mana and tann.
After the lockdown restrictions had eased last year, what measures had been taken at ‘Atmantan’ to assure the comprehensive security and properly becoming of its employees and guests?
Atmantan is a NABH accredited Wellness Centre and therefore our protocols assure the highest top quality of overall health applications, security & hygiene for employees and guests. Each person has a function to play to retain the atmosphere protected.
Keeping this in thoughts, we implemented a Protected FOR YOU campaign, which was focussed about:
(1) Guest & (2) Team
We enhanced all our service protocols.
Some measures taken are:
1) All our guests have to do a mandatory RT PCR test prior to arrival (sample swab should really be taken inside 48 hours prior to arrival time). Guests are advised not to socialise after the sample has been taken.
2) On arrival, we conduct a doctor’s screening for any visible symptoms or issues.
3) Close to 150 of our group members keep on the premises. This consists of senior & middle mgmt. & junior group members as well. This guarantees that quite couple of people today are coming from nearby places.
4) The employees does Jal Neti twice a week and has been by means of a dose of homeopathic medicines to strengthen their immunity. All members of the group will comprehensive their vaccination by Mid July.
5) All public places are becoming cleaned more typically.
6) We use sophisticated UV light in all rooms and public places as this kills any surface bacteria. This 15-second therapy is completed ahead of verify in. And just about every evening this therapy is completed in all public places.
7) Training of our group members to raise their sensitivity to the threat and how to mitigate the similar.
All these above measures make Atmantan a ‘Safety Bubble’!
What does ‘wellness’ encapsulate in your vision for your guests and how does it reflect in your services that are now on present?
We are a wellness pit cease. Like in Formula racing, the automobile normally comes in for a pitstop exactly where it is checked or serviced Atmantan is precisely such a location, exactly where guests retain coming in on a regular basis back to their trusted group and they continue enhancing upon their overall health parameters.
We provide our guests with transformative and educative experiences upon their medical professional consults, exactly where in them beneath diagnostics, prescribed nutrition, fitness regimes and all this is completed in a personalised manner with outstanding social assistance from our group.
Tell us more about the green initiatives that have been rolled out and why it is an integral aspect of your vision for the future?
My wife Sharmilee Agrawal Kapur and I had been quite focussed on creating a world-class home devoid of degrading the organic atmosphere. Hence, quite early on through the organizing stage itself, we carried out a climate study and also appointed a LEED consultant to discover sustainable architecture and power systems. As young entrepreneurs, there is no other way… if it has to be done… it has to be green.
Our path breaking measures involve:
40,000K LPD solar heating plant for which we imported thermal insulated pipes from Holland. These unique pipes assure that there is a minimum drop of temperature more than lengthy distances.
300KLD STP plant that makes use of 1/3rd the electrical consumption of traditional plants and also makes use of no chemical substances for therapy of waste.
This water is recycled for our garden and organic farm
Tell us about the place of your resort and what sort of travellers it is best for.
Atmantan sits atop a crystal hill, overlooking the blue Mulshi lake. The land lends us healing frequencies and enhances our wellness supplying. Tucked in Nature’s abode, Atmantan is away from the hustle and bustle of the city, when also becoming fabulously connected by road and air in the outskirts of Pune city.
Our guests are normally properly educated and evolved to the point that they worth their overall health as the most essential possession and pick out to come to us to strengthen and boost it.
This location is best for people today looking for illness management and reversal, relief from chronic ailments and injuries, people today suffering from auto-immune circumstances, these who want to, recover by means of the ancient science of Ayurveda (Kairali), detox, longevity and anybody seeking for holistic wellness.