IRTA 2019 - Outstanding Achievement Award - video Dailymotion

IRTA 2019 Outstanding Achievement Award: CGH Earth  #Travel #OutlookTraveller #OutlookMagazine #OutlookGroup

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00:00 (water splashing)

00:02 - CGH actually was an experiment which we did

00:07 where we coined the term less is more.

00:10 Spice Village, we gave the vocation

00:14 of tribal village in a spice garden.

00:16 Really, if you analyze the development of tourism

00:20 in Kerala, Spice Village would have been the paradigm shift.

00:23 We started a restaurant in Spice Village

00:26 called 50 Mile Diet, where we say that

00:29 everything has to come within a radius of 50 miles.

00:33 So obviously, the carbon footprint is not there

00:35 and the local farmer is benefiting

00:37 because we are sourcing it from the local community.

00:40 We were traditionally farmers,

00:43 and my father made the big leap

00:45 from a farmer coming an entrepreneur.

00:47 So always that blood of the farmer is there in our veins.

00:51 (upbeat music)

00:53 (upbeat music)

00:56 (music)

00:58 [Music]