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Pondicherry University is successful the process of rolling retired a caller postgraduate programme successful hospitality management.
Addressing the valedictory of “Akanksha 2026”, the flagship yearly industry-institute interface inaugural of the Department of Tourism Studies recently, Pondicherry University Vice-Chancellor P. Prakash Babu, said the caller postgraduate programme successful Hospitality Management was projected to beryllium launched from the adjacent world year, a property enactment said.
Noting that the determination was portion of reinforcing the university’s committedness to industry-relevant education, Mr. Prakash Babu emphasised tourism’s strategical relation successful determination development. He urged students to use insights gained during the three-day interface successful their firm and entrepreneurial careers.
The event, which brought unneurotic implicit 25 manufacture leaders, academicians, planetary delegates, and students, discussed emerging trends successful tourism, hospitality, question technology, sustainability, and experiential tourism, and means of fostering robust academia-industry collaboration.
Sejoe Jose, Managing Director of Marvel Tours, Kochi, who was the main guest, shared insights connected innovation and ethical practices amid accelerated manufacture transformation, portion Agnese Davidsone, Rector, Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, Latvia, the impermanent of honour, highlighted the relevance of planetary collaborations.
In his keynote address, Valmiki Harikishan, question manufacture entrepreneur, highlighted entrepreneurial ventures successful niche markets.
Sibi P. S., Head of Tourism Studies Department, underscored the yearly event’s relation successful bridging academia and industry, and preparing students for opportunities successful technology-driven, sustainable tourism. Sherry Abraham, Associate Professor and lawsuit coordinator, outlined the programme’s scope, featuring peculiar lectures, sheet discussions, workshops, and pupil activities.
K. Tharanikkarasu, Director (SEI&RR), Pondicherry University, presided implicit the inaugural session.
Post-inauguration, final-year MBA (Tourism and Travel Management) students received their assignment orders from the main guest, marking palmy placements successful starring tourism, technology, and hospitality firms facilitated by the department.
Lalit Kishor Bhati, designer and municipality planner, Auroville, successful a peculiar address, spoke connected reimagining community-based tourism arsenic co-creation for self-reliant development.
A sheet treatment chaired by S. Sudalaimuthu, professor, Department of Banking Technology, Pondicherry University, included manufacture experts connected astute technologies, specified arsenic Syed Abdullah Badsha, Raja Ramalingam, Alok Kumar Das, Sejoe Jose, Shashwat Ramesh, and Ilgvars Abols (Latvia).
The panelists explored AI personalisation, integer marketing, and sustainable tech integration. The league concluded with a peculiar code by Chennai-based wellness entrepreneur Anagha Maria Varghese connected leadership, unlearning powerlessness, and wellness successful hospitality.
A absorption league connected sustainable and experiential tourism, featured Aurovilian Anjali Schiavina’s insights connected ESG integration and quality connection, followed by a sheet connected niche experiences with experts from CGH Earth, HouseofTours.com, and others, and a SIPAS-funded store connected stakeholder engagement attended by implicit 15 section professionals.
P. Natarajan, Dean, School of Management, led a squad of assets persons, including Sherry Abraham, Gokulapriyan Raj, Karthik B. Pradeep and Fathima Thesleena for the proceedings, the property enactment said.
