Kerala Tourism to reopen

Brigade Hospitality has recognized among the 100 Best Workplaces for Women – 2020 by the prestigious institute, Great Place to Work. Every year, Great Place To Work Institute recognizes the best workplaces in various sectors and categories on how these companies engange with their employees at various levels to know its impact on the individual growth & overall outcome. The recognition goes onto validate the platform companies provide to their employees to learn, grow and prosper thus creating an environment that gives equal opportunities to one and all. The ‘Best 100’ were decided from a pool of over 800 organizations who applied for this assessment.

The assessment criteria included, women must form at least 10% of the workforce on the organization’s payroll and a minimum of 70% positive feedback on the Trust Index© employee survey from women employees in the organization. Organizations were then studied on Gender Parity & Representation of women across levels to arrive at India’s Best. Great Place to Work ® Institute, is the ‘Global Authority’ for creating, sustaining, and identifying High-Trust, High-Performance CultureTM. Considered the ‘Gold Standard’ in Workplace Culture Assessment, Great Place to Work ® identifies Best Workplaces solely based on Employee Feedback and quality of People Practices in an organization.

Expressing his views on the recognition, Mr Vineet Verma, CEO & Executive Director, Brigade Hospitality said, “Our women colleagues are our strength and their dedication & commitment is indeed commendable. They have shown time and again that it is not the gender but the passion & drive to excel is what really matters. I salute our women in office and assure them that we will continue to add to their numbers. Brigade Hospitality stands committed in this direction and we are honored to be recognized among India’s 100 Best Workplaces for Women”.

Striving towards the satisfaction of their guests, Brigade Hospitality pays the utmost attention to their needs.

The Government of Kerala has decided to reopen the destinations in a phased manner. The Destinations have been listed out to be opened in two phases. Destinations which are not crowded like Hill stations, Adventure Tourism centres, Backwaters can be opened now following SOPs and COVID protocol and Destinations like Beaches which would be comparatively crowded are allowed to be open from 1st November 2020 following strict SOPs and protocols. 37 The Department has also prepared Guidelines for reopening the destinations. The domestic tourists will be allowed to visit Kerala by following COVID protocol. They have to register on the covidjagratha portal and follow the Guidelines. Tourists visiting for less than 7 days are exempted from quarantine. Tourists visiting for more than 7 days have to bring RT PCR negative certificate from ICMR/ State Approved Laboratory or test on arrival at cost from ICMR/ State Approved Laboratory. Otherwise, they will have to be on quarantine for 7 days and test on the 7th day or continue on quarantine for another 7 days.