With a well-regarded experience of around 30 years in the hotel and tourism industry, Anil Bhandari has served as MD of the International Travel House and was also the MD of Hotel Corporation of India. He was appointed MD of Indian Tourism Development Corporation Limited (ITDC) from 1992 to 1997 and later joined ITC Limited as an advisor of Travel and Tourism in 1998.
Over the years, Bhandari has worked at various positions in ITDC and was chairman of the entity from 1992 to 1997. He also served as an executive director of the International Travel House. He was on the executive committees of some of India’s premier trade and industry bodies such as FICCI, PHDCCI and Member Industry Council, and is the proxy director of PATA, WTTC and ACTE. He is presently chairman of AB Smart Concepts.
Bhandari holds a three-year diploma in hotel management from New Delhi’s Institute of Hotel Management and Catering, and has completed a two-year advanced course in hotel management and marketing conducted by Carl Duiserg Gesseslchaft, Germany. He is armed with a certificate in hotel administration from the Institute of American Hotel and Motel Association, and is also a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality, London. Additionally, he holds a diploma in German language.
