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India City Walks FestivalTM
enabled by City Explorers® (Pvt. Ltd.)
A Domestic Tourism Revival Initiative
We intent to revolutionize how individuals explore cities and simultaneously take care of the infrastructure cum societal engagement. This we have achieved through thematic walks, events, trails and storytelling sessions. To share with all, the knowledge of the different pasts in India and to learn the aspects of history that they have in common.
People & Spaces
The festival will celebrate the people in tourism industry. We wish to encourage innovation and collaboration, including working across sectors with a wide range of partners
Art & Culture
The festival will support the capacity and resilience of the culture, heritage to enhance tourism.
Atma Nirbhar (Self-Sustenance) & VocalforLocal
The endeavour is to celebrate and nurture the locals with their traditions which will are endangered and needs to revive for our future generation.
Heritage & History
In our years of experience, working around the nuances of both tangible and in-tangible heritage, we understand and wish people to appreciate heritage & history.
Antiquity & Legacy
Our entrepreneurial vision is to create local employment opportunities and train people to work in tourism sector to keep the antiquity and legacy alive.
Recognition & Dignity
Our intent is to ensure constructive ways to enrich the lives of the people who have held the traditional grounds for centuries.
Heritage
Food
Architecture
Culture
Spirituality
Textile
Photography
Museum
Nature
Rural
Supported by
We encompass every conceivable aspect of tourism within India’s immense diversity
HYBRID CELEBRATIONS – on-ground & Online Festival (2020-2021)
There are multiple platforms to showcase the different aspects of India’s tourism
A Festival, for the people and by the People
We want heritage to be more widely recognised as a vital contributor to the economy, social cohesion, better places and individual wellbeing. Encourage safer ways of exploring tourism destinations in the post covid19 scenario. Revive the lost tourism field due to the pandemic & lockdown.
We believe that the community success comes through sustenance and self-dependence. Our years of working in the field of tourism has ensured various innovative mechanisms to sustain and prosper in the competitive world.
BECOME A HOST, JOIN US IN THE FESTIVAL UNDER DIFFERENT ROLES
We encompass every conceivable aspect of tourism within India’s immense diversity
Who is a Host?
The one who wants to showcase his/her city or neighbourhood to the like-minded residents or tourist through heritage walks or storytelling session or workshops. A host can be from any part of India and showcase any form of tangible or intangible heritage. The host can choose the platform to be either online or on-ground and can be under multiple themes and multi-language.Our endeavour is to support the locals in the revival of lost tourism field due to the pandemic & lockdown. We believe that the community success comes through sustenance and self-dependence. Click on the link to join us: https://cutt.ly/submitentry
Engaging
Inclusive
Responsible
Sustainable
Join us in other Roles?
The festival gives a big platform to all who wish to showcase the beauty of this country through diverse themes and mediums. And to bring the best we need people who are can use the social media platforms in multiple ways. We call for active Instagrammers, YouTubers, Vloggers, Bloggers, Facebook content creators and other platforms of mass engagement. Positioning Heritage/Culture Walks as alternate employment and involving LOCALS in heritage awareness as participants and hosts with designations like Walk Leaders®, City Champion®, Monument Friends®. Send us an email at – indiacitywalksfestival@gmail.com
Employment
Visitation
Attractions
Mobility
JOIN the tribe of
‘Walk LeaderS®’ &
Show your city
If you are continuously seeking information about a place, acquiring in-depth knowledge about a craft, have an inquisitive mind and wish to interpret the recorded or oral sources of heritage, culture, history and facets of tourism– then join us in the mission to be the best ambassadors of our country’s heritage and legacy.
EXPLORE CITIES, LOCALES & NEIGHBOURHOODS
EXPLORING A STATE, CITY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD
We believe that cultural heritage provides an automatic sense of unity and belonging amongst the people which allows better understanding between people and place
Tourism Revival Initiative
The Festival (ICWF) is an ambitious framework rather than a rigid plan. We are introducing new strategic directions for India tourism and enhance ways of working to support and strengthen India’s diversity of attractions through uncertain times, and will respond flexibly to changes and opportunities as they arise.
Promoting Domestic Tourism
The Festival (ICWF) is designed to cater to a post COVID19 tourism world, particularly dedicated to the domestic tourism in India. Encourage safer ways of exploring tourism destinations as per health and hygiene steps are the key concern areas. By adhering to the norms of social distancing and yet bringing the best experiences together for the travellers is our focus.The Festival (ICWF) is designed to cater to a post COVID19 tourism world, particularly dedicated to the domestic tourism in India. Encourage safer ways of exploring tourism destinations as per health and hygiene steps are the key concern areas. By adhering to the norms of social distancing and yet bringing the best experiences together for the travellers is our focus.
Facilitating Local People and Locations
The vision of the Festival is to create a pool of socially and culturally aware people who are passionate locals, have desire to showcase their heritage, neighbourhoods, city to residents and travellers and yet face a challenge to find a platform to pursue their interest.
Domestic tourism
Local approach
Case Studies
Sustainability
Trusted Partner-City Experiences in India
Location & locals specific
India City WalksTM
A three-time National Tourism Award winner brand and recipient of the Hall of Fame award from the Ministry of Tourism, Govt. Of India. India City Walks is led by a full-time team of experts who have dedicated themselves to bring the best of India to be showcased to the citizens and the globetrotters simultaneously.
India with LocalsTM
Creating an opportunity for the locals and for the others to immerse in the unexplored arenas with the locals. This platform creates community impact by ensuring responsible and sustainable tourism along all chain of the experience. We have curated tours and experiences that nurture the local traditions and local tourism. This is a pan-India platform ensuring employment for the locals also bringing awareness about our rich cultural heritage amongst the people. We have devised a mechanism by which the locals are provided the much-needed skill to preserve and promote their own destinations.
EXPERIENCES ACROSS INDIA ARE AVAILABLE TO ALL TRAVELLERS OR VISITORS
VasudhaivaKutumbakam’ an ancient saying literally translating into ‘the world is one family’. The Indian value system has revolved around this saying for centuries now. The post COVID 19 world brings the value more than ever.
‘Festival’ will Aid Recovery in Consumption
MULTI-LINGUAL, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, MULTI-THEMATIC
Unlocking Opportunity for Locals
Influencing regional characteristics to appeal to different market segments
Experience Creation
An important segment of the festival is to bring destination research, video and content repository about the lesser known so that the places and people can celebrate their own neighbourhoods. We manage experiences within the field of creative tourism. For the locals and overall tourism revival, experience creation is done with regard to physical, social, and symbolic attributes management for both cultural and tourist fields, that can lead to the creation of specific skill green ecotourism destination planning.
Handholding for the Locals
Finding ways to be more environmentally friendly by ensuring that local communities feel comfortable with their role as performers and entertainers training rural tourism entrepreneurs and providing marketing support with sustainable alternate sources of income.
Opportunity to get locals involved
The opportunity to get locals involved, as well as take charge of something that will require interaction with a number of visitors will be an inspiring story for the nation to see and project from tourism industry growth and inclusivity.
Unexplored
Anecdotes
Locals
Diversity
What the Media had to say
The India City Walks Festival™ is a medium of Entrepreneurship to promote the proposed sites through inclusive involvement of the population livingaround the sites, local businesses, & educational institutions to be able to sustain locals.
We STIMULATE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENTS
Celebrating India’s Diversity through Multi Region, Multi City, Thematic Experiences and Events across India. We develop new programs that people can experience and learn new things unique to the destination. We ensure that local communities feel comfortable with their role as performers and entertainers.
Culinary
Experience
MONUMENTS
Experience
CULTURAL
Experience
CITY
Experience
Shopping
Experience
Educational
Experience
ART & CRAFT
Experience
SPIRITUAL
Experience
Music
& Dance
Photography
Experience
Fashion
& Beauty
Health &
Wellness / Nature
Adventure
SPORTS
Theatre &
Performance
Rickshaw/
Tuk tuk Ride
Cookout
Experience
City Focus
Walks
Experience
Wildlife Experiences
A FESTIVAL TO BRING SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF TOURISM
In this Festival, it is time to identify and train the people who can be promoters of local tourism and upholders of cultural heritage
Bring shift through local, ‘innovative transformation’
Fundamental for building a sustainable foundation for heritage tourism. The Festival has the ability to enhance and improve the region’s local cultural tourism offerings in the short to medium term. The Festival shall be mentoring &conducting straining programmes for locals to become WALK LEADERS®
Together as an organization, as an extension to the community
The festival framework designed by India City Walks™ will integrate organizations/individuals/ NGOs who organize heritage walks along with a dedicated volunteer committee member who wish to showcase their cities with pride. With India City Walks Festival™ touristic experiences would take a completely different turn with only proper training.
Bring a sustainable ground for our common future
The festival has taken the steps which would bring a stable and sustainable ground for community growth. Tourism industry at the moment stands in a volatile situation and we need to bring back the trust in people, for both the travel and the host. The festival aims at ensuring steps to achieve this in a sustainable manner so that we bring benefits for all.
Eco-tourism
Social Impact
Skilled Approach
Sensitive Environments
sPECIAL iNTERESTS in india city walks festivaltm
Location Specific Tourism Circuits
Buddha Circuit
Including the teachings and principles of Lord Buddha with historic sites dedicated to him in our festival from Bihar, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and other prominent States
Krishna Circuit
As part of India’s diverse spiritual tourism offerings, we shall be including sites and locations from states which promote the Krishna circuit, namely Gujarat, Haryana, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh
Ramyana Circuit
Festival as a medium to promoteour mythical stories to the world-wide audience. The locals would be the brand ambassadors of these historic and mythical experiences
TRIBAL Circuit
The beauty of unexplored India remains in the hinterland that are untouched. In this festival we ensure responsible ways of getting a sneak peek into the lives and cultural traditions of the tribes
A festival TO CELEBRATE RURAL INDIA
Authentic rural experiences spread across India
ECO-TOURISM
Focussing on environment and our contribution in the upkeep of the place, we connect locals and the travellers to conduct eco-driven experiences. The India City Walks Festival™ creates opportunities to build community capacity through eco-rural tourism.
ORGANIC TOURISM
Opportunity for local rural sites, interior neighbourhoods to showcase their hidden gems,creating an opportunity for new age organic tourism promotion from our hinterlands.
SELF-RELIANT
The festival brings together an opportunity to alternative income generation across all age group. We intend to revolutionize how individuals explore cities and simultaneously take care of the infrastructure cum societal engagement in a self-reliant way.
CULTURAL TOURISM
Through the festival we will promote our stories that weaves information about social cohesion, rootedness & identity leading to local immersion in India’s diversity.
WALKS, TALKS, ACTIVITIES, PERFORMANCES & EXPERIENCES
RESPONSIBLE TOURISM INITIATIVES
Our aim is to develop a model where the host and the participant equally protect and nurture a space
Inclusive Opportunities
With the festival, we believe in making a social impact and not disrupting any local life. Our endeavour is to make sure that all rungs of the tourism service sector serves in harmony. We have initiated skill mitigating programs to ensure all can be part of the delivery system.
Sustainable Opportunities
In the pandemic hit world, we need sustainable alternatives, and the festival brings the right opportunity for all who have lost their jobs or are looking for alternate sources of income in the tourism world. This festival creates the opportunity for all.
Creating Deeper Understanding & Awareness
Festival as a medium we will raise awareness about responsible tourism with host/participants/ travellers. It is our utmost priority to create awareness. Our awareness generation is divided into segments of groups ranging from school students and college goer, to one-time traveller to a regular visitor.
- Eco-tourism
- Low-impact approach
- Urban Regeneration
- Experiential Learning
In-Depth Local Knowledge
We undertake in-depth knowledge development projects for tourism led socio-environmental initiatives
Research Repository
To bring an authentic and well researched purview of our historic developments within the genre of tourism, we have a dedicated team of researchers, scholars, historians, local experts, subject matter experts, on-field & off-field tourism experts, performing & non-performing artists who are actively creating a repository for the festival
My Neighbourhood My Heritage®
Opportunity for local rural sites, interior neighbourhoods to showcase their hidden gems,creating an opportunity for new age organic tourism promotion from our hinterlands.
Creating Future City Champion®
The festival brings together an opportunity to alternative income generation across all age group. We intend to revolutionize how individuals explore cities and simultaneously take care of the infrastructure cum societal engagement in a self-reliant way.
India Resources™ & Inventory
A sense of belongingness and pride evokes sentiments of being a responsible citizen and showcasing the India differently. Through collaborative effort, we support in creative tourism.
Virtual Tours
TOURISM DESIGN & INNOVATION
Young yet experienced, inclusive, diverse and dynamic set of people who have strong educational qualifications,passionate to deliver any tourism initiative in challenging situations, adaptive to the new norms and come with no boundaries.
NETWORK, ENGAGE, INTERACT & PROMOTE EVERYTHING UNDER THE
THEME OF CULTURE, TRADITION & HERITAGE
OUR OPERATIONS
Team focus
We are an impact initiative of City Explorers® (a private limited company in India) and operate in conjunction with India City Walks and India With Locals. We strongly feel that the tourism challenges have to be mitigated by not thinking REVIVAL but CREATION. Creation of products, jobs, assets and management of open spaces has huge opportunity. We operate several flagships and bring innovation in tourism to position local identities into experiential themes for travellers to explore regions in a responsible, safe and sustainable manner.
We enhance social impact through ’#VocalforLocal’ and support companies to build their brand equity by creating their tourism business across regions of India.
Local Network & Strength
A step closer to creating sustainable model of promoting tourism in local neighbourhoods, our strength remains in the reliable and strong local network of skilled and passionate locals who share their knowledge about the destination.
Knowledge Bank
Our yet another stronghold is the research repository which is accessible to all hosts as part of the festival. This knowledge bank provides authentic location information for the host to share with the participants. Simultaneously our team ensures an immersive storytelling experience.
On-ground Team
The festival operations also depend at large on a robust on-ground team which we have created over the years across India. The intent is to cater to the tourism industry, assuring a ground staff of trained and passionate individuals. The designated City Champion® works respectfully and enthusiastically with local communities.
Continuous Monitoring
An essential element of our Festival operations is the continuous monitoring and evaluation of the content, information, customer service that is being provided to the guests/ participants. Through identification and training before and during the festival we open the path for continuous.
SPONSORS & PARTNERS
KEY OUTCOME
Pan India Marketing Opportunity | Regional Brand Visibility | Digital Engagement | Social Impact by building skills & training
Customer Engagement and Customer information | Targeted Messaging | New Content
OUTREACH OF THE FESTIVAL IN PAN-INDIA, TIER-2 & TIER-3 CITIES AND CREATE IMPACT WHICH IS MULTIFACETED SUCH AS ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL
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HOLISTIC DESTINATION
EXPERIENCE MODEL
India City Walks Festival™ will combine community impact with local culture, creating a product that attracts tourists and citizen engagement. Cultural consumption will benefit local residents though the infusion of visitor and public expenditures as well as stimulates community revitalization.
This initiative by City Explorers Private Limited will assist the development of heritage tourism opportunities across regions including use of a thematic framework in form of India City Walks Festival™ to link heritage places, stories and practices together.