Agenda Dialogues: What's the future of global travel and tourism? 

We are committed to building back better - not only for India but for the world.

The pandemic has really overwhelmed an unprepared world. It’s left an untold cost in human lives, livelihoods, economic growth.

India is poised to become the pharmacy of the world [...] That is our commitment that we grow strong, grow back better, not only for India but also for the rest of the world.

Today, if we do not stop the virus, all human lives are at risk.

We are very hopeful for tourism. People want to go, people want to travel, but this is dependent on the destinations being open.

As soon as we’re allowed to fly more, you’ll find that Indian carriers will bounce back really quickly.

I believe there’s massive pent up demand [for travel], but it’s hemmed in by restrictions in any given country.

What we have is a mosaic of different policies, procedures, government regulations [...] That nobody's really able to decipher - and that's really discouraging travel.

People definitely miss travelling for pleasure, but business-wise I don’t see travel coming back as quickly as we expect.

The shortest distance between us and getting back to normal is getting the world vaccinated.

We are proud to contribute to our government's massive effort to save its own people.

I think as the stakeholders of travel and tourism, we failed miserably last year to bring all these policies together to create a global platform, so people can understand what is expected of them, so they can travel.