AKTC’s conservation of Humayun’s Tomb and area has positive impact to India’s tourism as Ratish Nanda honored with Excellence Award at Condé Nast Traveller Awards
Aga Khan Trust for Culture’s Project Director, Ratish Nanda
“At Humayun’s Tomb, we got a 1000% increase in visitor numbers as part of the conservation effort.
Tourism and heritage can do a lot more together in a much more sustainable way than what we are doing now.”
– Ratish Nanda, Projects Director, Aga Khan Trust for Culture
Conde Nast Traveller awards the best in travel & tourism
Friday, December 23, 2016, 11:00 Hrs [IST]
The sixth edition of Condé Nast Traveller Reader’s Travel Awards (RTA) took place at The Lodhi, New Delhi, and was attended by select invitees comprising industry leaders, influencers and marquee names from travel, tourism and government bodies.
Like every year, the Readers Travel Awards, chosen through a readers’ voting process spanning across 2 months, recognised the best in the travel industry across hotels, destinations, airlines, spas, websites, apps, cruise lines and more.
The efforts of those who work towards bringing pride to our nation were also recognised. Paralympics gold winner Devendra Jhajharia was awarded the ‘Excellence Award’ along with Ratish Nanda for his contribution to heritage conservation.
… Ratish Nanda, Projects Director of Aga Khan Trust for Culture, who was felicitated for his contribution to heritage conservation, commented, “I receive this award very humbly on behalf of the other contracts for art of conservation community. I think in India we have 1000s of years of heritage and we have all seen what better preserved heritage can do for tourism. At Humayun’s Tomb, we got a 1000% increase in visitor numbers as part of the conservation effort. Tourism and heritage can do a lot more together in a much more sustainable way than what we are doing now.”
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