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Hotel revenue executive - gurugram, inbound operations, react js developer, java/spring boot developer, customer service executives - airport representatives, domestic sales, travel desk supervisor, general tasks.

• Support and Assist the various operations teams with Product knowledge.
• Help the team customize programmes with product ideas as per their requirement.
• Come up with new product ideas and translate them into tangible tours or excursions as per demand.
• Keep abreast of latest travel trends.
• Track competition on product.
• Travel to study product as per plan and where required.
• Efficient and timely action of all queries with regard to Product.
• Ensure proper coordination with operations team in India and Sales Reps.

Specific responsibility / day to day activities

• Analyse future business trends and track new markets/segments and competition for product ideas. Keep abreast of all product-related news.
• Experience new products and meet strict deadlines to investigate a product and submit accurate reports/ feedback.
• Shooting videos and stills while travelling to make interesting films/photo slides with the help of the in-house video desk and design team.
• Circulate the updates on any new products and updates on existing ones post your travel, using internal and external communication channels via reports and blogs.
• Create presentations to educate internal customers on product lines.
• Compiling and updating the central pool of information/database on products including experiences curated by branches and ensuring it is catalogued for easy access by all markets.
• Periodically review and optimise the product portfolio based on client feedback, market trends, and performance metrics.
• Engaging with friends of the Destination Knowledge Centre and increasing our pool of friends and experts in various fields.
• Promote market-specific products.
• Synergise with operation teams to increase productivity by optimising the product options available to their FTOs.
• Act as a SPOC for all product-related queries from internal teams. Track & maintain query MIS.
• Work with cross-functional teams to identify market-specific requirements.
• Assisting the sales team to create decks with products best suited for each market.
• Creating collaterals on products for RFPs as per market requirements.
• Support the Product Team verticle under the Destination Knowledge Center
• Internal customer satisfaction and feedback from overseas partners on product support

Job Specifications

• The candidate must be a graduate.
• Preferably, 7 to 8 years of experience in tailor-made operations for inbound clients.
• Good Product knowledge of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka & Bhutan.
• Indepth Knowledge of itineraries and routings.
• Should have an understanding of customer needs and the market.
• Oral and written English communication skills.
• Some writing experience would be an added advantage.
• Quality conscious with an eye of detail are vital.
• Understanding of latest travel trends.

Interested candidates can share updated CV at [email protected]

• Collect and analyze best available rate of contracted hotels from various Booking Sites.
• Illustrate and Interpret data, formulate reports.
• Evaluating pricing trends evaluating Hotels based on price.
• Conduct competitive analysis to compare tariffs.
• The candidate must be a graduate with minimum 2 to 5 years of experience in Data research.
• Proficient in MS office (Excel, Word & Powerpoint)
• Strong data analytical skill
• Prior experience into hotel reservation would be an added advantage

Job description: Inviting applications from enthusiastic candidates for ‘Travel Operations’ role based in Gurugram and Mumbai. The candidate must be a post-graduate / graduate with 2 – 8 years of relevant experience in the travel industry. He/she must have work experience in a similar role.

A brief of the duties & responsibilities is as follows:

• Process and manage bookings to hotels/airlines/train/Safaris.
• Well-versed in designing of itineraries and costing.
• Whenever necessary, negotiate for better rates with hotels for specific movements.
• Monitor day-to-day quotes to ensure customer satisfaction and to meet targeted timelines.
• Actively engage in briefing and debriefing from the operator for each tour.
• Manage the entire life cycle of events including accounting, documentation, and coordinate with the Clients while they are on tour.
• Maintain a close cordial relationship with all service providers.
• Coordinate & follow up with: Respective market manager, product, and R&D team for preparing the product & brochures, suppliers and branches and/or service providers as required.

We are India’s oldest and largest inbound travel company. Last year we commenced the development of our in-house product with the aim of end-end automation of our B2B business. To accelerate the development of our platform, we have recently set up a technology innovation center, TCI Digital Labs, and are looking to onboard passionate developers across all areas – cloud, (AWS), DevOps, Java, React, Typescript, and Data – to become part of our ambitious product engineering roadmap.

Job Description

• Software development experience which includes 2 + years of deep, hands-on experience with React Js
• Good understanding of frameworks like Bootstrap, Backbone, React JS, Redux, and libraries like jQuery, LESS, and Ajax
• Knowledge of automation testing frameworks (Mocha, Jest, or others)
• Experience with browser-based debugging and non-performance software
• Strong understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing languages, such as LESS and SASS
• Proficient understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery
• Experience with common front-end development tools such as Babel, Webpack, NPM, etc

Good to have

• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token
• Have designed API interfaces (REST and/or GraphQL)
• Back-end development experience
• Conversant with SQL
• Development experience in building back-end applications using Java and the Spring ecosystem
• Strong command over core Java
• Understands the application of java best practices
• Familiar with the Java Concurrency model
• Understands Java collections, generics, and java 8 based functional programming features
• Understands what it means to write unit-testable code
• Has extensively used the Spring ecosystem
• Spring Boot
• HTTP/REST API development
• Spring Data (JPA)
• String experience ORM tools like Hibernate (can fine-tune mappings for performance)
• Conversant with SQL and database design
• Appreciation of various design styles including event-based, microservices, monolithic modularity, etc.
• AWS: Experience with developing applications for the AWS Cloud
• Usage of Code quality tools (SonarQube or others)
• Familiarity with Deployment using CI/CD pipelines
• Understands Unit and integration testing facilities of Spring Boot
• Meeting & Greeting the guests as per the allocated duty.
• Interaction with Guests as per the briefing sheet.
• Facilitate all activities involved in the arrival and departure transfer of guests.
• Responsible for strictly following the prescribed SOP & making the guest comfortable & their experience memorable.
• Responsible for welcoming, escorting & assisting guests in arrival & departure transfer.
• Assist the guest at the time of check in & check out at the hotel.
• Brief the guest about complete tour itinerary (If required).
• Perpare paging board as per the allocated assignment.
• Reconfirm the flight, hotel, vehicle & all other details before transfer.
• Ensuring Vehicle quality by performing complete vehicle check-list process.
• Ensure to carry required amenities as detailed for allocated assignment.
• Disseminating correct & timely information to Operations team.
• Effective laisoning between DO-CSE, TDO & ADO.
• Assist the client in all possible ways in consultation with the file handler and duty officer.
• Provide clients’ feedback to the operation team.
• Should be responsible for assisting official work / assisting Duty Officers as needed.
• Should have good knowledge of brand specific requirement.

Location: Mumbai / Gujarat Designation: Deputy Manager / Manager

• Generating sales from the Domestic market as per assigned budgets
• Ensure file profitability, managing assigned budgets, and statistical/financial records
• Ensuring & maintaining a high standard of quality and service delivery
• Ensure proper coordination & maintain PR at all service levels (Interdepartmental coordination & communication, including domestic agents)
• Liaise with travel partners, including hotels to manage booking & schedules
• Customer satisfaction (Dealing with customer inquiries & meeting their expectations)

Specific responsibilities

• Sales visits to clients
• Ensure cost control / constant renegotiation with suppliers to increase profitability
• Maintaining weekly sales reports
• Coordinating with the product and Procurement team for setting up of new products if required
• Ensure process compliance to increase productivity and customer satisfaction
• Keep a track of Conversion ratio, GOP and Client feedback
• Candidate should be a minimum graduate
• Should have a minimum of 4-6 years’ experience and a flair in sales role
• Should have an understanding of the customer needs and the market
• Must possess Destination and Product knowledge and sound understanding of market pattern
• Strong interpersonal skills

Location: Gurugram

• Managing travel desk transactions and interaction with airline and train vendor.
• Managing online transactions for monument tickets and reconciliation.
• Ensuring the best deals for groups and charter negotiations.
• Reconciliation of accounts and tracking the refunds (airlines and railways).
• Maintain a good PR with Airlines and charter / train vendors.
• Low-cost airline ticketing and reconciliation.
• Coordination with Airlines call center for full refunds, waivers , cancellation and changes.
• Train ticket billing and reconciliation.
• Follow up with FHE’s for bill disputes and train bill clearance.
• Update Ancillary services through credit cards for Full cost airlines.
• Assist superiors in managing travel desk.

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When judges get free trips to luxury resorts, disclosure is spotty.

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Many federal judges receive free rooms and subsidized travel to luxury resorts for legal conferences. NPR found that dozens of judges did not fully disclose the perks they got. Chelsea Beck for NPR hide caption

Many federal judges receive free rooms and subsidized travel to luxury resorts for legal conferences. NPR found that dozens of judges did not fully disclose the perks they got.

Dozens of federal judges failed to fully disclose free luxury travel to judicial conferences around the world, as required by internal judiciary rules and federal ethics law , an NPR investigation has found. As a result, the public remained in the dark about potential conflicts of interest for some of the United States' top legal officials.

Federal judges — occasionally with family members or even their dog in tow — traveled to luxury resorts in locations as far-flung as London; Palm Beach, Fla.; Bar Harbor, Maine; and the outskirts of Yellowstone National Park for weeklong seminars. The judges received free rooms, free meals and free money toward travel expenses, together worth a few thousand dollars.

Victims of harassment by federal judges often find the judiciary is above the law

At one event, a far-right German politician with a history of racially inflammatory and anti-immigrant statements made a presentation to dozens of judges. At others, judges heard from an advocacy group that uses lawsuits in federal court to change environmental policy, as well as from corporate CEOs in the oil and pharmaceutical industries.

For almost two decades, the federal judiciary has recognized that the combination of apparent luxury and ideological content can present the appearance of undue influence on the courts. In response, the judiciary has required more transparency in the form of public disclosure.

An NPR investigation found that the disclosure systems often fail to give the public timely information about the outside benefits that judges receive and from whom.

As a result, judicial ethics experts say, people with cases before these judges lack important information about a judge's potential biases. That information, if received in time, could be used to request that a judge recuse from a particular case.

"It also matters to the public, even if someone never shows up in a courtroom, to believe in the integrity of our judiciary and to trust in the decisions that are issued by judges," said Renee Knake Jefferson, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center. "Having disclosures of judicial financial interests goes directly to the public having confidence in the outcomes of the decisions — that they are free of any bias or influence."

Many judges defend these events as helpful forums to discuss important issues, and they reject criticism that a stay at a fancy hotel could influence their decisions. Critics call them "junkets" and glorified vacations that reward ideological allies.

Both sides agree that disclosure is needed.

There are two primary ways the public can view information about judicial education events and see which judges attended: One disclosure is filed soon after the event, and the other is submitted much later.

First, within 30 days of an event, judges are required to file a form that details the host of the event and the entities that provided funding, as well as the speakers and topics of discussion. This form, called a " Privately Funded Seminar Disclosure Report ," is posted on every federal court's website.

Second, federal law requires that judges report the reimbursements they received for the events on an annual financial disclosure report. That report also includes information like alternate sources of income (such as a book deal or teaching job) and what stocks a judge might own. Those reports are eventually posted on a centralized online database maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

By closely examining the portion of these events subject to public records laws, NPR identified problems with both systems.

In nearly 40 instances, judges attended events at luxury resorts but failed to properly file a report within 30 days. In fact, the forms were uploaded months or even years late and only after NPR began asking questions.

In 13 cases, NPR found that judges failed to declare the benefits they received on their annual financial disclosure forms.

NPR contacted all those judges for comment.

And in another dozen cases, judges' financial disclosures for 2021 or 2022 were simply unavailable to the public. By all accounts, judges are filing those annual disclosure reports on time. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts bears responsibility for posting those reports online and has acknowledged delays in getting the system up to date.

There is no indication that the judges intentionally withheld information in order to deceive the public. And the office that administers the annual financial disclosure website told NPR that it struggles to work through a backlog of reports, as well as requests for redactions to protect judges' safety, but is making progress.

Ethics experts said delays and omissions in these reports undermine the entire purpose of the transparency rules.

"That information loses most of its value if it's a year and a half later," said Kedric Payne, the senior director of ethics at the nonprofit watchdog Campaign Legal Center. "It's just too distant from the potential conflict of interest."

Regardless of intention, the result is that the public is kept in the dark. And NPR's findings likely represent an undercount of the larger problem.

Events with ideological presentations and a side of luxury

Nonprofits, legal organizations and private universities all host judicial education events around the world. But those groups are generally not subject to public records laws. As a result, their full attendee lists are shielded from public scrutiny.

When it comes to the hosts of these events, George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., is exceptional in two ways.

George Mason University's campus in Fairfax, Va., in 2018. Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption

George Mason University's campus in Fairfax, Va., in 2018.

For one, GMU — particularly the university's conservative-leaning Law & Economics Center — has long stood out as one of the most prolific hosts of judicial education events. Collectively, hundreds of judges have attended the university's events at luxury resorts over the years. GMU is quick to point out that the events are paid for by private donors. The Law & Economics Center's website lists donors that include major corporations like Amazon, Pfizer, Google and Facebook, as well as the business lobby group the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. According to the New York Times , conservative activist Leonard Leo helped gather $30 million in donations to rename the law school after late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

GMU is a public university in Virginia, which means it is subject to the state's Freedom of Information Act. NPR requested attendee lists for eight of its judicial education events from 2021 to 2023. By comparing attendee lists with the publicly available records, NPR was able to identify dozens of missing disclosures.

That missing information may be relevant to both the public at large and people with cases in front of these judges.

For example, dozens of judges took part in a 2022 event that featured a speaker from the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) political party. Germany has been rocked by massive protests in recent months over revelations about AfD's ties to right-wing extremism. A regional AfD leader is facing charges in Germany for allegedly using Nazi slogans, which he denies.

Gunnar Beck, a member of the European Parliament and an AfD member, spoke to the group of American federal judges about "European Jurisprudence." Beck has a history of anti-immigrant and racially inflammatory statements.

In 2021 — the year before his presentation to the judges — Beck took multiple photos of Black families, including young children in strollers, and posted them on social media. In one of the posts, he used the photo to criticize what he called the Afrikanisierung (Africanization) of Germany. (This post was deleted after NPR contacted Beck.) In another, Beck wrote that due to immigration, "Germany has no future as an industrial and cultural nation, but it does have a future as a welfare office."

Beck told NPR in an email that "each country and its people have a right to control their border with a view to safeguarding their maintenance of their national culture and identity" and that "I do not think these views are either fascist or racist."

The GMU events have also featured presentations from a nonprofit that says it uses lawsuits to promote a pro-market, as opposed to pro-regulation, approach to environmental policy; the CEO of a U.K.-based pharmaceutical company ; and the CEO of an energy company that is currently suing the federal government over financial regulations.

One recent event included a reading assignment on the "worst decisions ever handed down by the Supreme Court" as defined by conservative and libertarian legal scholars. Roe v. Wade , which established a constitutional right to abortion, was No. 2. Landmark cases establishing rights to same-sex marriage and the use of birth control also appeared among the top 10 "worst" decisions.

Given the power of judges to affect Americans' lives on issues from guns to abortion, the environment and crime, transparency about these events is critical, said Gabe Roth of the nonprofit watchdog group Fix the Court.

"The public has a right to know whether or not its top legal officials have any potential conflicts going into hearing cases," said Roth. "Sometimes they're small bore, but a lot of the times they have major national impact."

The agendas for the GMU events showed that the event programming often ended around noon, followed by a five- or six-hour "study break." In some instances, the agendas leave days completely free.

It's unclear exactly how judges spent that time. But attendees had the opportunity to enjoy the Ritz-Carlton's clay tennis courts, the Alyeska Resort's Nordic Spa or the short walk to Buckingham Palace from the May Fair Hotel in London. The agenda for GMU's 2022 Bar Harbor Colloquium in Maine reserved 90 minutes for a wine tasting .

The Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska, in 2009. John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption

The Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska, in 2009.

A spokesperson for GMU did not respond to NPR's specific questions for this story.

"Topics are selected based on foundational concepts in the economic analysis of law relevant to judges and other areas of interest to the judiciary," wrote Ken Turchi, associate dean of GMU's Antonin Scalia Law School, in an email. "Every judge who attends has the option to complete and submit a disclosure form detailing expenses incurred and reimbursed."

Which judges have disclosure problems?

Problems plagued the paperwork for judges appointed by presidents of both major parties going back decades, including Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

And the judges who failed to fully comply with the disclosure requirements include some notable names.

In this screenshot, Aileen Cannon speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing to be a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020. She was appointed to the position later that year. U.S. Senate via AP hide caption

In this screenshot, Aileen Cannon speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing to be a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020. She was appointed to the position later that year.

Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida is presiding over former President Donald Trump's criminal trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents. Cannon, herself a Trump appointee, attended two seminars at a luxury resort in Montana, but the privately funded seminar disclosures for both events were not posted online until NPR began making inquiries. Clerk of court Angela Noble told NPR in an email that the absence of the disclosures was due to technical issues and that "Any omissions to the website are completely inadvertent."

Judge Robert Conrad is the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. U.S. Courts hide caption

Judge Robert Conrad is the current director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, which implements the policies of the federal judiciary. Conrad, who was appointed by George W. Bush to the Western District of North Carolina, attended three privately funded seminars from 2021 to 2023. He later included the events on his annual financial disclosure but did not file a publicly available disclosure for any of those events within the required 30-day time limit. "He inadvertently did not make the additional disclosure in the separate system for private seminar attendance," said Peter Kaplan, a spokesperson for the Administrative Office. "Judge Conrad appreciates your bringing this oversight to his attention."

Judge Leslie Gardner of the Middle District of Georgia, who is the sister of prominent Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, also failed to file a privately funded seminar disclosure on time. Additionally, NPR found that Gardner omitted the reimbursements she received for lodging, meals and travel on her annual financial disclosure. In a phone call to NPR, clerk of court David Bunt said that Gardner, an Obama appointee, was updating her annual financial disclosure and privately funded seminar disclosure, which were incomplete due to an "oversight."

"I don't have really an excuse for it, and I'm going to correct it"

Judges contacted by NPR largely described the issues with their disclosures as the result of an "inadvertent oversight" or an "accident." In a handful of cases, court clerks blamed technical issues with the online system for uploading paperwork. One judge appeared to be unaware of the requirement to file a disclosure report within 30 days. Several judges thanked NPR for contacting them and prompting them to update their disclosure reports.

"It looks like we blew it," said Judge Philip Gutierrez of the Central District of California in a phone call to NPR. Gutierrez failed to file a disclosure within 30 days of attending a judicial seminar at The Breakers, a resort in Palm Beach, Fla., in 2021. "I apologize. It's important. I'm embarrassed."

Gutierrez immediately uploaded the missing disclosure.

Judge Gary Fenner of the Western District of Missouri attended the same GMU 2021 seminar in Palm Beach but failed to file a privately funded seminar disclosure and omitted the event from his annual financial disclosure that year.

"I am really surprised that I did not report that," said Fenner, an appointee of Bill Clinton, in a phone message to NPR. "I'm going to rectify it. I'm embarrassed about the fact that somehow that was overlooked by me. But I don't have really an excuse for it, and I'm going to correct it."

Judge Keith Starrett of the Southern District of Mississippi, a George W. Bush appointee, said he had thought he marked his attendance at GMU's seminar at the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek Resort and Spa in Colorado in 2021 on his annual financial disclosure. He acknowledged that it was missing from the forms due to an "oversight."

"I'm going to do whatever I need to do to get it right," he said by phone.

In the District Court for the Southern District of Texas, NPR found three judges — Jeffrey Brown, Andrew Edison and Charles Eskridge — who had not filed the required privately funded seminar disclosure forms. After NPR contacted the court, the judges uploaded the forms, and clerk of court Nathan Ochsner said in an email, "At the direction of Chief Judge Randy Crane, my office will routinely remind all [Southern District of Texas] judges of this reporting requirement."

Meanwhile, the delays in getting access to annual financial disclosure reports appear to be the result of the time limits built into the transparency laws, as well as a combination of long processing times for redactions requested by judges and, in some cases, security concerns.

The law requires that judges file their annual financial disclosure reports for the previous year on May 15. Many judges request and receive a 90-day extension, pushing that deadline to mid-August. Judges can then request that the judiciary redact "personal or sensitive information that could directly or indirectly endanger" the judge or the judge's family, but then a committee has to review the request.

"So if you're a judge that asked for a 90-day extension and then, on top of that, you're asking for redactions," said Roth, of Fix the Court, the public release of the annual disclosure is "already well into the following year."

Former federal Judge Jeremy Fogel, who is now the executive director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, evaluated some of these redaction requests when he served on the judiciary's Committee on Financial Disclosure.

"I don't think that the problem you described is one where the judiciary doesn't want to share the information," said Fogel. "I think the problem is that they have not been able to put the resources in place to get the information online and available to the public in a timely manner."

The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C., houses the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption

The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C., houses the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

NPR sent a list of judges to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and asked why their annual financial disclosures for 2021 or 2022 were still unavailable. Kaplan, the Administrative Office spokesperson, said he "could not comment on specific judges' filings." In general, Kaplan blamed missing disclosures on backlogs in the system and reviews of filings for possible security issues.

"Currently, nearly all filings from 2021 and more than 80% of the filings from 2022 are available on the database," said Kaplan. "We are continuing to cut into the backlog of reports."

An ongoing debate over judges and luxury trips

Even if judges universally filed their disclosure reports on time and if the federal judiciary sped up the release of information, it would likely not end the ongoing debate over judges getting thousands of dollars in free perks, especially at ideologically slanted conferences.

Fogel said that in his time as a judge, he tended to avoid events that might be perceived as ideological.

"I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's unethical," said Fogel. "But I think it's better — it's a best practice — for judges to avoid programs that have a particular philosophical or ideological viewpoint."

Judge Starrett, of the Southern District of Mississippi, has attended five GMU legal events in the last three years and even brought his German shepherd to one of them.

He rejected the idea that his views could be swayed by a certain speaker's agenda or free perks.

"I've been called a liberal judge. I've been called a conservative judge. I've been called a son of a bitch. That comes with the territory," said Starrett. "I pay close attention to speakers that are politically biased one way or another. I listen to them, and I challenge some of them. I ask pointed questions."

Judge Gutierrez, of the Central District of California, has attended three GMU events in the last three years.

"Certainly, I think people have a slant. But for the most part, I found them to be interesting and educational," he said. He added that a group of federal judges will always tend to ask tough questions and get into spirited debates — whether in court or in a legal seminar.

"We want our judges out in the world learning and teaching. And we want our judges to have friendships. We want our judges to be able to travel," said Jefferson, the legal ethics expert at the University of Houston Law Center. "It's the disclosure that matters."

Nick McMillan and Hilary Fung contributed reporting and visuals, with graphic editing by Alyson Hurt. This story was edited by Barrie Hardymon with research by Barbara Van Woerkom. Photo editing by Emily Bogle.

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