August 6, 2012

Kuoni India has announced the appointment of Rajeev G. Wagle as the new Managing Director with immediate effect. He succeeds Rajiv Duggal who has decided to take a sabbatical for personal reasons.

Rajeev joins Kuoni India from UTV Software Communications Ltd. where he was responsible as Group CFO. Rajeev was associated with Kuoni India from 2000 till 2008 as CFO. In his new role as Managing Director at Kuoni India, he would be responsible for steering the company to greater heights. He brings in a profound experience in finance and vast knowledge of the tourism business.

July 26, 2012

To create awareness about reusing and recycling paper amongst its employees, Kuoni India launched ‘Donate Waste Paper’ campaign as its CR initiative. Towards this cause, Kuoni India tied up with ‘I Love My Mother Earth’, an NGO working for the cause of environmental conservation. Under this initiative, employees from all divisions of Kuoni India donated used/waste papers, notebooks, magazines and brochures in collection boxes placed at their respective location for a month starting from June 7, 2012.

Over 2012 kgs of waste paper was collected from locations across India and was handed over to representatives from ‘I Love My Mother Earth’ by Matthias Leisinger, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Kuoni Group and Rajiv Duggal, Managing Director, Kuoni India. Papers donated under this initiative would be recycled to make notebooks which would be distributed to less privileged children.

‘I Love My Mother Earth’ is an organization dedicated towards spreading knowledge, conducting research, increasing awareness and inspiring action in the area of conservation of planet earth. The organization, founded in 2010, is committed towards creating conservation efforts of the ultimate standards resulting in highest impact and everlasting change.

February 6, 2012

Kuoni India was felicitated for Customer & Brand Loyalty in “Travel & Hospitality Sector” at the prestigious 5th Loyalty Awards on February 1, 2012 at Intercontinental, The Lalit, Mumbai.

The award was presented by Louise Cantrill, European Operations Development Director, AIMIA and Arjun Hira, GM, Brand & ARB, Retail, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. To S.D. Nandakumar, Head Tour Operating B2B, Kuoni India.

The 5th Loyalty Awards, a part of the 5th Loyalty Summit, were presented by AIMIA and conceived and managed by Kamikaze B2B Media. These Awards were the outcome of a combination of Consumer Research undertaken in 5 major cities of India aided by Nominations received from organisations. An Accredited Research Agency was appointed for the research of the Awards Nominees and to declare the winners.

February 2012

To support the cause of child education, Kuoni India conducted a corporate responsibility initiative ‘Donate a book’ across all its offices. As part of this initiative, Kuoni India employees donated 1001 basic level books like stories, drawing and poem books. The books collected were given to Pratham, an NGO working for education of underprivileged children in India. The books donated will be used in the Library Programme for children run by Pratham.

Stefan Leser, Executive Vice-President, CEO Emerging Markets & Specialists Division, Kuoni Group and Rajiv Duggal, Managing Director, Kuoni India presented the books to Yashaswini Kumar, Associate -Media & Communications, Pratham. The NGO expressed its appreciation for Kuoni India’s initiative.

Pratham is the largest nongovernmental organization working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India. Established in 1994 to provide pre-school education to the children in the slums of Mumbai city, Pratham today reaches out to millions of children living in both rural and urban areas through a range of interventions.