Bhubaneswar,(Kalinga Voice) : Against the backdrop of the Covid-19
ravaged landscape, there is a need for developing new research
methodology in the hospitality and tourism sector to explore new
avenues, Prof. I. Ramabramham, Vice-Chancellor of the Central
University of Odisha, Koraput, has said.
The country has many unexplored tourist sites which could be
developed while there was a need to focus on tribal culture and lifestyle,
Prof. Ramabramham said while speaking at a week-long Faculty
Development Programme (FDP) organized by the School of Hotel
Management, faculty of Hospitality and Tourism Management of the
SOA Deemed to be University here, which concluded here recently.
Explaining how new trends in tourism management could be
reinvented, he said these projects could be taken up with government
assistance, local initiative or through public-private-partnership.
Prof. Ramabramham also said there was a need for the demystification
of tourism as an elitist pursuit. Research should focus on how each state
could promote its profile in the area of tourism, he said.
Twenty eminent resource persons were drawn from different parts of
the world took part in the FDP while 120 participants from 65
organizations from within India and abroad took part in the
deliberations.
Some of the prominent organizations which participated in the FDP
included National University, Bangladesh, Central Universities, IITTM,
IHM, CIPET, IFNOU, OSEPA, Government of Odisha, State Council of
Technical Education and Vocational Training, Government of Odisha and
Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotion Society, Government of Bihar.
The resource persons included Prof. S.C.Bagari, professor of HNB
Garhwal Central University, Dr. M.K.Hada, Director, Vigilance and
Security, DRDO, Prof. Tapan Kumar Panda, former Acting Director, IIM,
Indore and Chief Academic Officer of Ampersand Group, Mumbai, Mr.
Prem Subramaniam, Ex-Head, Tourism Infrastructure, IDFC, Prof. Sanjay
Nadkarni, Director of Innovation and Research, Emirates Academy of
Hospitality Management, Dubai and Prof. Sunil Sahadev, Professor,
University of Brighton, UK. Prof. Sitikantha Mishra, Advisor-cum-Dean,
SHM, who was the Programme Director, thanked the resource persons
while Dr. Anshuman Samal, Associate Professor, provided a detailed
overview of the FDP.
Dr. Smita S. Mahapatra, Associate Professor, and Dr. Sasmita
Mohanty, Associate Professor proposed the vote of thanks.
