Sanjeev Miglani, Reuters
India is working with Air India and some Arab Gulf states to repatriate hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers and other citizens stranded by the coronavirus pandemic. It could end up being one of the largest emergency evacuations in decades.
4 weeks ago
Xinyi Liang-Pholsena, Skift
Much of the post-crisis tourism recovery conversation has focused on China. But India should not be neglected, especially for destinations that have seen the perils of fixating too much on a single market boil over at the onset of the global pandemic.
4 weeks ago
Kanishka Singh, Reuters
Maintaining a ban on domestic flights is unlikely to help the country's roadmap to restart industrial activity, which begins this week.
2 months ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
Oyo put in place a substantial number of furloughs — likely in the thousands — and there are probably many more to come after the India lockdown ends. The Oyo that emerges will look different than the rocket ship of a year ago. Withdrawing from certain markets will certainly have to be under consideration.
2 months ago
Sanjeev Miglani and Aditi Shah, Reuters
While India had only eight confirmed deaths from coronavirus as of Monday, experts warn that a jump in cases is likely soon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government ordered a shutdown of domestic flights. Rail travel is already suspended. The economic pain will be fierce.
2 months ago
Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Reuters
Even though Myanmar has no reported cases of coronavirus, India is making the prudent move to shut down the border, knowing full well the limitations of its health care system if a full-blown outbreak should spread across the country of 1.4 billion people.
3 months ago
Shuriah Niazi, Skift
Bhutan’s high tourist fee was one key reason the country managed to avoid the pitfalls of mass tourism until recently. It’s high time that the sustainable tourism development fee is uniformly levied for all tourists, regardless of their origins.
3 months ago
Xinyi Liang-Pholsena, Skift
Oyo appears to be taking its once-explosive global expansion strategy down a few notches, and that could be a good thing for the young company in the face of still-uncertain impacts from the coronavirus and the reputational damage it recently suffered. These losses aren't pretty.
4 months ago
Patrick Whyte, Skift
Speculation continues to grow around Lastminute.com Group's ownership. In the meantime it's getting on with expanding its presence across the globe.
4 months ago
Sam Nussey, Reuters
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son's strategy of investing heavily in headline-grabbing startups is certainly risky. Will investors continue to back him?
4 months ago
Sean O'Neill, Skift
Longtime leader and co-founder Deep Kalra will remain critical at the company in a newly created role of executive chairman. The change in job titles is a reward for co-founder Rajesh Magow's years of work leading the India business. Both executives have pushed hard on a subscription model, one of Skift's Megatrends for 2020.
4 months ago
Rafat Ali, Skift
What’s happening with Oyo cannot be looked at separately from the modern Indian milieu that gave birth to it, and in which it operates. Oyo now needs to rise above that legacy and bring in the global business practices that ensure it survives and thrives in the future.
4 months ago
