The people behind the alliance

Dato Pardip Kumar Kukreja represents Malaysia and Singapore within the TRAVEE PLUS Global Tourism Alliance — two of Asia’s most important travel gateways, and a region where the difference between a good contact and a working operator is measured in millions of arrivals.

Through the Paradise Group of Companies — with Paradise Travel & Tours Sdn. Bhd. established in Kuala Lumpur in 1987 — his work spans destination promotion, travel-trade networking, business development and the cross-border partnerships that hold inbound and outbound travel together.

His reading of the Malaysia and Singapore tourism ecosystem gives the alliance credible access across one of Asia’s most commercially significant travel regions.

Contribution to tourism

• Building international tourism partnerships
• Promoting Malaysia and Southeast Asian destinations to the world
• Developing relationships with overseas travel companies and DMCs
• Supporting inbound and outbound tourism business
• Creating international travel-trade networking opportunities
• Growing destination partnerships across markets
• Encouraging tourism collaboration between Asian countries
• Supporting international market development for travel businesses

Tourism grows when people connect — but tourism business grows only when those connections are held together by trust and consistency. Malaysia and Singapore are gateways to Southeast Asia, rich with opportunity for both inbound and outbound travel. Through TRAVEE PLUS, we are building a network where members have direct access to destination expertise, reliable partners and genuine business — partnerships that outlast any single transaction and create tourism growth that lasts.

— Dato Pardip Kumar Kukreja, Founding Member — Malaysia & Singapore

Dr. Ketut Jaman represents Bali and Indonesia within the TRAVEE PLUS Global Tourism Alliance — one of the most recognised leisure destinations on earth, and one where a famous name counts for far less than the operation running beneath it.

A destination professional based in Bali, he brings local expertise, operational depth and a clear sense of what international travellers actually expect once they land. Through Melali Bali DMC, his work supports international partners with destination services, on-the-ground coordination, experiences and ground handling across the archipelago.

His seat gives alliance members direct local-market knowledge and industry connectivity in Indonesia — the part of the business that cannot be run from abroad.

Contribution to tourism

• Promoting Bali as a global leisure destination
• Supporting international travel agents and tour operators
• Developing destination experiences for overseas travellers
• Strengthening local tourism supplier networks
• Supporting hotel, transport and activity partnerships
• Running dependable inbound operations in Bali
• Building B2B relationships with international markets
• Bringing authentic Balinese experiences to global travellers

Bali is known everywhere — but real tourism needs far more than a famous destination. It needs strong local operations, trusted partnerships, and a genuine understanding of what international travellers expect. Through TRAVEE PLUS, we can bring global partners closer to reliable destination experts, while opening new outbound opportunities for our own market. I believe this alliance can become a real bridge between destinations and tourism businesses around the world.

— Dr. Ketut Jaman, SS., MSi., Founding Member — Bali, Indonesia

Mr Sri Ram Pandey represents Nepal within the TRAVEE PLUS Global Tourism Alliance — a market where spirituality, high adventure and living culture meet in a way few destinations can match.

Based in Kathmandu, he brings destination understanding and travel-trade experience across one of South Asia’s most distinctive tourism markets. Through World Trade Travel & Tours Pvt. Ltd., Hattisar, his work supports travel businesses, destination promotion and international partnerships.

His seat gives alliance members trusted local-market knowledge and representation in Nepal, well beyond the trekking trails the country is usually reduced to.

Contribution to tourism

• Promoting Nepal across international tourism markets
• Developing pilgrimage, cultural and adventure tourism
• Supporting inbound partners with destination services
• Building relationships with international travel companies
• Strengthening India–Nepal and other cross-border tourism business
• Supporting destination product development
• Connecting overseas agents with local suppliers
• Presenting Nepal beyond its traditional trekking image

Nepal is where spirituality, nature, adventure and culture come together. Our opportunity is to carry these experiences to more of the world, while building stronger partnerships with tourism professionals everywhere. TRAVEE PLUS gives every destination a place to promote itself and, at the same time, to lift every other member. That two-way approach is what makes the alliance valuable. We are not only promoting destinations — we are building business relationships between countries.

— Mr Sri Ram Pandey, Founding Member — Nepal

Ashutosh Chandel represents India within the TRAVEE PLUS Global Tourism Alliance, with experience across tourism, destination management, hospitality and travel-trade development.

Based in Dehradun, Uttarakhand — at the doorstep of the Himalaya — his work has drawn together tourism professionals, DMCs, hotels, travel agents and pilgrimage operators, while developing and distributing tourism products across domestic and international markets.

Through CMTC World and CareMyTrip.com Hospitality Pvt. Ltd., his focus is on structured tourism products, B2B distribution, destination partnerships and dependable ground-handling networks — the Char Dham and pilgrimage circuits India travels for, built to be sold through agents rather than around them.

Contribution to tourism

• Developing and promoting domestic and international tourism circuits
• Strengthening B2B travel distribution and DMC partnerships
• Promoting Uttarakhand and Himalayan tourism
• Building pilgrimage and spiritual tourism products
• Growing relationships with travel agents and tourism professionals
• Supporting hotel and hospitality partners through distribution
• Creating tourism products for Indian and international markets
• Encouraging collaboration between DMCs, agents and destination stakeholders

Tourism is one of the few industries where collaboration creates opportunity for everyone in the chain. One traveller crossing a border generates business for airlines, hotels, transporters, DMCs, guides, restaurants and whole communities. TRAVEE PLUS is our effort to connect those opportunities through a trusted global network. We are not building another association — we are building an alliance that actively generates business, develops markets and helps every member grow internationally. India’s inbound and outbound potential is enormous, and through TRAVEE PLUS we want to open stronger tourism corridors between India and our partner destinations.

— Ashutosh Chandel, Founding Member — India

Mr Arvind Shukla leads travee+, the technology behind the alliance — the platform that lets a travel business spend its day selling trips instead of rebuilding last year’s files. The software prices the trip; the rates, the client and the name on the document stay with the member.

We built travee+ so that an agency spends its day selling trips instead of rebuilding last year’s Word files. The software costs the trip; the rates, the client and the name on the document stay yours.

— Mr Arvind Shukla, Chief Executive Officer, travee+