She is still basking in the joy of being elected as the President of one of the biggest travel trade associations of India – TAAI, a position she is truly worthy of. Having won the elections with a sweeping majority, she is one power woman who has got her entire MC come to power without drop of even a single candidate. Though she has been playing an instrumental role in the association for many years now, but sitting at the helm of things, Mrs. Jyoti Mayal has an entire list of resolutions and reforms she wishes to implement. Here’s her first ever interview as the President TAAI with BOTT India.
Priyanka Saxena Ray
A lady who never minces words and clearly states her intention every time you hear her speak, Mrs. Jyoti Mayal had announced her candidature for the post of President TAAI much earlier and had her vision and mission in place, one she would acquire the hot seat! Given her legacy of work and active participation across all travel trade related forums, it came as no surprise when Mrs. Mayal was elected as President TAAI with a sweeping majority. Her new team, which is standing with her shoulder to shoulder in her path of success comprises Mr. Jay Bhatia as Vice President, Mr. Bettaiah Lokesh as Hony. Secretary General and Mr. Shreeram Patel as the Hon. Treasurer.
“Like expressed earlier in our manifesto, we have a vision, which will change TAAI. Our aim is to make it into an association that everyone will look up to. We aim to bring change to policies in manner that makes it easy for our members to do business. Technology, in today’s day and time can be used to grow not just business but also avenues of income – this is something which we will strongly focus on and help our members to look at non-ticketing revenues also,” shared the enthused President, who is soaked in a whirlwind of congratulatory world at the moment.
Also on her agenda is something which is perhaps most needed by the industry today – increased women participation. “I hope I will be able to inspire more women to join the travel trade and help them carve a niche for themselves. There is certainly a dearth of women entrepreneurs in our industry and my focus as TAAI President would be to increase women empowerment in our membership. I would also like to have a strong board of advisors consisting of officials from government, airlines and influencers, which will guide the TAAI leadership towards better and higher goals. We will also try and get clarity on GST with the correct favourable policy and educate our members – not just in the metros but in tier-II and tier-III cities as well regarding the same.”
With all this and more on her plate, we can safely safe say that the functioning of TAAI has indeed landed in capable hands and the travel trade can look forward to some wonderfully successful time ahead for the association.
