Love to travel but worried about security in these distressing instances? Don’t be concerned, you are not alone. There are not quite a few points travellers can be particular about due to the pandemic spreading the way it has in the last two months. From new launches to one of a kind provides that are teamed up with sanitisation applications, the travel and hospitality market is reinventing itself to meet the genuine time challenges that are coming its way.
New hotel launches in July consist of Radisson Blu Resort Dharamshala, which is situated amidst the foothills of the picturesque Dhauladhar Himalayan variety and surrounded by pine forests. The resort provides simple accessibility for travellers from Delhi and Punjab, as it is nicely connected to the national highway 503 and only 16 kms away from Gaggal airport. For households, the resort’s Family Recreation and Gaming Zone is anticipated to give a number of on-web site activities such as VR gaming, interactive games and arcade games to assure indoor entertaining-filled activities.
Clearly, security is the main concern for all stakeholders in the travel and hospitality segment.
In today’s story, we speak to crucial stakeholders in the travel and hospitality market to comprehend how they are gearing up with enhanced security measures.
COVID-19 Second Wave: Emergency travel and cab services witness spike in bookings
To allow protected cab rides, Savaari rolled out simple-to-afford one way cab services spanning 15 lakh routes in the nation and their emergency travel associated bookings witnessed a spike in April 2021.
Gaurav Aggarwal, CEO and Founder, Savaari Car Rentals observes, “In fact, the number is as high as 35%, reaffirming the customer’s faith in our services during distressing times. This is also indicative of the customer’s trust in superior COVID-precautions.”
A notable trend highlighted by Savaari’s CEO is that men and women from tier III cities are presently displaying a preference for intercity cabs to take COVID-19 patients to nearby metro/TIer II cities for much better healthcare facilities. In this context, security protocols played a pivotal part in travellers opting for cab services repeatedly for inter state and nearby travel.
COVID-19 Second Wave: New hotel launches, irresistible present provides amongst crucial trends
As the hotel market faces heat in terms of muted bookings, a number of nicely identified hospitality brands in the nation are preparing for the future. While market insiders are not totally optimistic about the revival in market this year, this has not stopped new launches and intriguing provides to entice travellers to strategy and even present trips to their loved ones.
According to Vikram Lalvani, Chief of Revenue, Sales and Destinations, Sterling Holiday Resorts Ltd, “At Sterling we believe holidays are not just earned but also gifted. To help spread the joyfulness of a break from the impending lockdowns across the country, Sterling announced, Sterling ‘Spark Joy’ . A product that brings back the trend of gifting a holiday and makes it easy for anyone to Spark Joy in their loved ones by gifting them a ‘Sterling Spark Joy’ gift card. With an easy to buy and easy to redeem process on our website, one can choose any unique occasion to gift someone a holiday. The receiver can redeem the value of the e-gift card anytime while booking their holiday.”
COVID-10 second wave: Safety comes initially for hotel guests
Consider how Sterling Holiday Resorts Ltd teamed up with Apollo Clinics to ensuresafety protocols at its resorts across the nation. The system rolls out sanitisation and hygiene suggestions and processes for guests, personnel and vendors, with a set of protocols applicable across each guest facing and back of the property services and facilities at all Sterling Resorts.
New sets of games and indoor vacation activities have been made in rooms of guests and in designated places inside its resorts, thereby conforming to the norms of social distancing, security and hygiene. Additionally, for weddings and conferences, a variety of spacious venue selections are supplied to assure social distancing involving sessions, in the resort’s massive lawns and pre-function places.
Highlighting its significance, Vikram Lalvani, Chief of Revenue, Sales and Destinations, Sterling Holiday Resorts Ltd informs TheSpuzz Online, “ Sterling CARES is a 360-degree comprehensive sanitisation program to ensure the highest level of safety and hygiene at our resorts. Apollo is Asia’s foremost healthcare provider. The programme is in line with the latest guidelines recommended by the Government and institutions like WHO, ICMR and FSSAI – to ensure the guests have a safe and fun-filled holiday.”
He additional elaborates on the Sterling ‘CARES’ security protocols, which starts ideal from a guest’s pre-arrival to verify-out, thereby utilizing minimal paperwork and sanitisation of the higher-speak to places every single 2 hours, “Most Sterling properties are spread out over acres of land and the accommodation is dispersed providing plenty of space for guests to enjoy natural social distancing during their stay. Sterling has put together a whole set of social distancing measures with minimal human intervention in food and beverage, including contact-less dining experiences – with QR code menus, buffets served by staff and takeaway options in addition to the traditional a-la carte offerings.”
No doubt, travel across India has been tough hit in the course of the second wave of COVID-19 as travellers are turning more cautious about stepping out of their properties. Once the circumstance gradually hobbles back to normalcy, there will nonetheless be a massive studying curve for the country’s travel and hospitality market.
According to Nikhil Kapur, Founder and Director at Atmantan Wellness, “The hospitality sector will take time to revive as people will choose their destinations mindfully. But the wellness sector is poised for revival and one can expect one of the biggest changes to come from the exponential growth due to digital services and how the hospitality industry takes this forward.”
What is also most likely to drive each the travel and hospitality market is its capacity to reinvent itself and prioritize security protocols, enabling all who enjoy to travel to locate the courage and conviction to do so and but with no compromising on security.
As every person believed the worst was more than, the circumstance changed drastically and became deadlier. Even as the nation geared up to battle the second wave, the standard security measures such as social distancing, wearing masks and stepping out only for crucial needs are not getting followed. All of these have also contributed to the worsening circumstance that emerged in the course of the second wave.