In an endeavour to show solidarity to the women professionals in the travel trade and also stick to its commitment of acknowledging, highlighting and helping the women entrepreneurs in the travel trade, the dedicated team at ADTOI has taken another step in the direction. The Association has created wherein it is creating and updating posts highlighting the profile of the women entrepreneur and also share their views on their journey and their plans for the future.
ADTOI has launched a new Facebook page to empower women in the Tourism Industry on PAN India basis and bringing them forward. Women just need a platform, a bit of hand-holding and someone to believe in them. The Aim of this page is to provide a social media platform for all ADTOI lady entrepreneurs. Through this platform, we will promote tourism, our CSR initiatives and work to connect ADTOI members. The virtual launch took place on 9th May, 2021 in the presence of ADTOI President, Mr. PP Khanna, other office bearers and the Chapter Chairmen. The launch was conducted by Mrs. Ekta Watts, Executive Committee Member, Chairperson Women Empowerment and CSR activities.
ADTOI has pioneered in providing a platform to work for the empowerment of ladies in tourism industry by conceiving a post “Lady Entrepreneur Officer (LEO)” and has appointed one LEO in the Chapters of the Association. This has been initiated by Mrs. Ekta Watts. Current ADTOI Lady Entrepreneur Officers are Mrs. Irshad Patel, Maharashtra Chapter; Mrs. Puja Karar, West Bengal Chapter; Mrs. Saraswathi Anandaveloo, Tamil Nadu Chapter; Mrs. Shilpa Patel, Gujarat Chapter; Mrs. Shishta Sharma, Haryana And Punjab Chapter and Dr. Shreya Barbara, North East Chapter. Through this platform, they will promote tourism, CRS initiatives and work to connect ADTOI members and to initiate their efforts for the same. A small initiation towards the big vision which we have for our Lady members.
Recently, ADTOI formed Covid Taskforce to help its members and fraternity in getting timely medical help. In order to provide timely assistance to its members and fraternity on PAN India basis ADTOI has formed a TASK FORCE from among the members to assist the ADTOI membership in general in these hours of COVID crisis plaguing the country, said Mr. PP Khanna, President, ADTOI.
Mr. Chetan Gupta, Hony. General Secretary, said, “We have created this Task Force to help our members in this difficult times. TASK FORCE is formed from among the members to assist the ADTOI membership in general in these hours of COVID crisis plaguing the country. We authenticate and validate ourselves each and every information we send to our members pertaining to availability of bed, oxygen cylinders, concentrators, medicines, ambulance services, to create database of plasma donors etc…. This small initiative is taken to help and support all our members PAN INDIA in all possible ways.”
