With an estimated 19 million pets, and 600,000 pets being adopted every year, the pet food industry in India shows huge potential. There has been an increasing awareness about pet nutrition and pet owners are becoming more conscious about pet care products. Growth is recorded in all categories inclu...
Abhishek Dwivedi, a 27-year-old, Jaipur-based manage-ment trainee has already registered to attend the grand Jaipur Literature Festival next year. For him it is a coming together of two distinct features of human identity- literature and culture. He told BE, “Both culture and literature are intert...
The Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) released its economic growth data about India’s GDP growth rate slipping to 5% in Q1 of FY 20, the lowest in six years.This was not unexpected as it had been 5.8% in the Q4 of FY 19. The economy has been slowing down for, at least, the last six quarters.T...
The first few months of 2019 have seen the lowest new investment proposals in India in the last 14 years. The ‘Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy’ report states investments in Q4 of FY 2019 added only Rs. 9.5 lakh crore. These figures are unlikely to experience any significant change in the up...
Cleartrip is one of the forerunners of the online travel and hospitality industry in India. Aditya Agarwal, Head, Corporate Strategy, Cleartrip, spoke to BE’s Ankit Singh.Q. Tell us about the business model of Cleartrip?A. We are a technology company. We have been around for 14 years and are a rel...
India is a tourist’s paradise. With its diverse landscape, different cultures, multitude of languages and communities, uniqueness in food from region to region and a co-existence of several religions and beliefs, the country offers a plethora of choices for every kind of tourist. While the nature ...
India offers a great tourism potential not only for the Indians but to the foreign travellers as well. Comparing the years 2017 and 2018, when the number of domestic tourists registered a growth of 11.9% (1657.55 million to 1854.93 million), growth in number of foreign visitors was registered at 7.4...
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was among the pioneer states of India in the field of implementation of land reforms. Terrorism and militancy had disturbed its march towards land reforms. Despite its challenges, the state continues to take care of landless persons by giving them government ceiling surpl...
Sikkim has opened doors to its first-ever public and private partnership with the reopening of its Bada Bungalow at Temi Tea Estate. The bungalow has been transformed into an eco-adventure hub with five rooms, seven cottages, a view deck, as well as a casino lounge. Partnered with Priya Entertainmen...
Indian tourism has a huge unrealised potential. Twenty-first century tourism calls for tourism diversification and realisation of relevant specialisations through innovations. Some recent examples of tourism diversification include adventure tourism, wildlife tourism, religious tourism, medical tour...