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Recovery of hospitality, tourism key to India's economic revival
New Delhi,UPDATED: Sep 4, 2020 01:39 IST
A contraction of 23.9 per cent in Quarter-1 GDP of FY2020-21 has brought to the forefront the serious nature of India's economic crisis at a time when the country is grappling with an alarming rise in new cases of the novel coronavirus. The RBI's recent report reaffirmed that tourism and hospitality have taken the worst hit as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent nationwide lockdown.
India Today Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai discusses the crisis looming over India's tourism and hospitality industry with Puneet Chhatwal, chairman (CII national committee on tourism) and MD/CEO of India Hotels along with Deep Kalra, co-chairman who is the co-chairman of the CII national committee on tourism and is also the founder of bookings portal MakeMyTrip.
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