With a veritable three-decade experience in the hotel and tourism industry, Late Mr Anil Bhandari was the erstwhile MD of the International Travel House and 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. He later started his own organisation, AB Smart Concepts.
Bhandari was on the executive committees of leading industry bodies including FICCI, PHDCCI and Member Industry Council, and was the proxy director of PATA, WTTC and ACTE.
Bhandari held a three-year diploma in hotel management from New Delhi’s Institute of Hotel Management and Catering, and completed a two-year advanced course in hotel management and marketing conducted by Carl Duiserg Gesseslchaft, Germany.
He was armed with a certificate in hotel administration from the Institute of American Hotel and Motel Association, and was also a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality, London. Additionally, he held a diploma in the German language.
