Travel and Tourism has gone beyond just being attractive destinations and is now an important economic growth contributor which is integral to any nation’s prosperity. On this World Tourism Day, the Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) takes pride in its steadfast commitment to the growth of the industry.
IHCL has been instrumental in creating and enabling employment, supporting livelihood, and handholding and supporting socially backward communities.
Since 2007, IHCL’s Building Livelihoods Program has directly trained and certified over 30,000 youth who have dropped out from schools from identified remote areas, urban slums, and tribal belts in association with State Industrial Training Institutes, Non-Governmental Organizations, TISS School of Vocational Education, and Tata Strive, amongst others.
IHCL currently runs 14 Skill Development Centers in partnership with Tata Strive to anchor capability-building, thereby creating a much larger indirect impact through training faculties and by supporting several other vocational training institutes through this partnership in regions such as J&K, the North-East, UP, and so on
The company also offers a 3-year Bachelor’s in Vocational Education Program in partnership with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences at 15 of its hotels across Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, and Goa.
Committed to the ethos of Tata Affirmative Action, IHCL also focuses on enabling employability and entrepreneurial opportunities for socially-backward communities and tribal groups through its CSR and business supply chain. The company, through its brands and businesses procures goods and services from social impact enterprises and artisans across several destinations, support over 1,000 families and 100 artisans’ livelihoods.
