tHOUGHT Leadership

Aptamind Partners Founder and CEO Aradhana Khowala is a regular speaker at various conferences and forums around the world. She is passionate about the impact of tourism and speaks widely about the opportunities and economic value it brings to family offices, private businesses and governments globally.

This report highlights the glaring gaps in the travel and tourism sector especially in the C-suite and executive roles and also highlights what leaders can do to deliver on gender diversity. While many organizations are working on promising solutions and have taken significant steps to address gender diversity, it has not resulted in accelerating gender diversity into a collective, cohesive movement that motivates action at scale.

The implications for talent management are profound for the hospitality industry and the companies in it will find themselves significantly disrupted unless they can recruit, retain, nurture, develop and evolve their talent consistently. 

Tourism is the world’s second largest industry and also one of the world’s fastest growing. There are very few other industries that are poised to grow as much or as fast as tourism. People are travelling today globally at a pace that is unprecedented.