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92 year old anti - women law struck down The Hotel Association of India scored a major judicial success in the High Court of Delhi in its legal battle to carry forward the movement for empowerment of women and providing them equal opportunities for work in hotels across the country. ---------------------------------------------------- Tourism Accorded Recognition in the Union Budget The Central Budget is the flagship economic event of the financial year and presented to the Nation by the Honourable Union Minister of Finance each year. The Budget for 2003-2004 was a historic one in so far as the Hotel Industry is concerned. Presented by Mr. Jaswant Singh, the then Hon'ble Union Finance Minister on 28th February 2003 to the Parliament it represented a watershed in the growth of tourism sector in India. ---------------------------------------------------- Showing the way in adopting modern technology to improve Hotel Operations, Hotel Association of India organized the first Infotech Hotels Expo on April 10 - 11, 2000 in New Delhi with support from the United Nation Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific, the SAARC Tourism Council. The Ministeries of Tourism and of Information Technology, Government of India, were co-sponsors of the event.
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Stretching beyond the National frontiers HAI's programmes for the hospitality industry stretched beyond the national frontiers. Three SAARC Seminars were organized at Agra, Bangalore and Delhi in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), SARCC Hotel Association, International Hotel and Restaurant Association and SAARC Tourism Council. ---------------------------------------------------- A HAI-led initiative marked the successful culmination of 30 years of prolonged discussion between Hoteliers, Travel Agents and Tour Operators with the signing of the International Code of conduct by Mr. S S H Rehman (President, HAI), Mr.Pradip Madhavji (President TAAI) and Mr.Subash Goyal (President of IATO) on April 28, 2000.The agreement put India at par with the development countries in following an accepted Global Code of Conduct. It cleared the decks for other hospitality associations to follow the trail led by HAI.
---------------------------------------------------- Seen at the SAARC Seminar on Hygiene Management held on 22nd - 23rd July, 1999 at Taj Palace, New Delhi are, left to right, Dr Roshan Lal(Chairman DTTDC), Mr R K Puri(Secretary General, HAI), Mr S K Misra(VICE President, INTACH)and S S H Rehman(President, HAI)
---------------------------------------------------- Seen in the photograph is Mr R K Krishna Kumar, Managing Director, IHC Ltd, presenting the HAI Memorandum to Mr Hegde, the then Hon'ble Union Minister of Commerce at a special meeting in New Delhi on July 16, 1998. The action plan presented by HAI was formally implemented with the issuing of a Govt. Notification dated Nov 26, 1998 declaring Hotels and Tourism Units earning specified quantum of foreign exchange as service Export House/ international Service Export House, etc |
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