The Team
Your Partners in Success !
The Team
We live and breathe decades of love for the travel trade. A team, that perfectly blends creativity, entrepreneurship and a wealth of great experience in the travel industry, the Indian and international tourism markets, are the pillars to design and implement a strategy that generates results for you! We execute time bound marketing campaigns and measure the success of campaigns through tangible results.
Meet the people behind your success in the Indian travel market.
Ashish Saran – Founder & CEO
Ashish is a well known, well-respected travel trade and hospitality professional with over 25 years of industry experience. He started his career with Taj Group of Hotels & Best Western International, transiting successfully towards the retail FIT outbound market.
He has held lead positions in launching and successfully promoting various segments of the hospitality and travel trade segments, like Best Western International, Kuoni AG, RE4A (Rail Europe Australasia), SITA World Travels India Ltd., Interhome Vacation Homes, Minotel, STC Switzerland Travel Centre, Vancouver Tourism, Tourism British Columbia.
Recently, he's found remarkable success in marketing world-renowned luxury train journeys like Rocky Mountaineer and Orient Express and, The Luxury Trains, in the Indian and key South Asian markets. It's been an incredible journey of sharing life-changing travel experiences with our clients.
Currently, with his close associations in Switzerland, Ashish enjoys fulfilling the mandates from BLS Interlaken Lake Cruises, PLANET (VAT refunds on Luxury Shopping) & IBEROSTAR group of Hotels & Resorts in the Indian market.
Ashish Saran has elevated international travel brands in India over the past decade, offering invaluable insights into the Indian outbound travel market and leveraging his wealth of local experience to propel them to new heights.
Mr. Claude Benard – Director Sales Europe
Claude Bénard has proven experience in the tourism and hotel industry, with a path both Offline and Online.
He has worked with:
– Tour Operator based in Marseille,
– Hotels group Envergure (Louvre Hotels),
– Marseille Chamber of Commerce tourism service,
– Booking engine, travel tech for hotels & tourism industry,
– Co-founder of Tourism-Mentors, trainings and consulting about digital tourism and digital marketing.
His career has also included international digital projects management for the Chinese Outbound Travel Market working with Dragon Trail Interactive, a leading Chinese digital agency 100% focus on China travel industry.
Now he is active since 3 years with the large India Outbound Travel Market. He is also a refined India Art Lover
Suparna Germann - Business Head- Western Europe
Suparna brings a wealth of experience across diverse industries, including the travel trade, luxury sector, and chemical and pharmaceutical domains.
Some of her expertise comes from:
Extensive projects with tour operators across Europe in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands.
Close collaboration with hotel chains, event houses, in Switzerland and Germany.
She has lived and worked in New Delhi, India for a Swiss outbound expert for several years giving her the opportunity to understand the Indian market at close quarters.
Her multifaceted background equips Suparna with a holistic understanding of industry trends, challenges, and opportunities, enabling her to deliver strategic solutions that drive sustainable business growth.
A Swiss citizen, based in Basel she enjoys hikes and wild life safaris across, Europe, Asia and Africa.
