Since 1995, I have worked in the fields of education, research, writing books, training, consulting, and extension activities. I started out as a licensed guide with the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, and over the course of my thirty years of teaching and research, including my corporate career, I have been exposed to a variety of duties and responsibilities. As the first author of the well-known textbook “Tourism Principles and Practices,” published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi I have authored over 50 empirical research papers, including 12 in scopus-indexed journals, guided ten Ph.D. scholars in a variety of fields, including sustainable, responsible, nature-based, medical, wellness, and ecotourism, and completed four projects funded by the UGC and ICSSR. It is a great honor for me to have been awarded an Erasmus Fellowship and to have been granted the chance to serve as the Project Manager for a joint European Commission-funded project building capacity for two cores.

As a training consultant, I work with LINPICO SARAL, a French consulting firm, which is providing three-year (2024–2027) World Bank-funded consulting services to the Tourism and Civil Aviation Department of the Government of Sikkim’s INSPIRE PROJECT. Using the PAHEL India Foundation, I am a consultant in the creation and development of Arunachal Pradesh’s new tourism policy.

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND ALTERNATIVE TOURISM