TAAI, Kerala Chapter presented an award to Nalina Pothuval for her 40 plus years of dedicated service in the Tourism Industry..
Post pandemic, people are so eager and hungry to travel, a kind of revenge travel after the lockdown days. There is a surge in outbound tourism and surprisingly domestic tourism has risen to the same heights. Kerala had not seen such an exodus of people taking the advantage of visiting various foreign countries.
When big names from other States in tour operations dominated, Ms Nalina Pothuval, MD of GnS Leisure Travels Pvt Ltd, Kochi, introduced the doyen of outbound tourism in Kerala. It goes to the credit of Ms Nalina Pothuval that she ventured to set foot to spread the message of international tourism in Kerala as early as in 1990, at a time when outbound tourism from the state was in its infancy.
She was then the Regional Manager for SOTC, Mumbai and later on she helped TCI to develop their overseas travel business in Kerala. She started her own venture, GnS Leisure Travels Pvt Ltd, in the year 2000, and for almost past two decades, she is the leading light of outbound tourism in Kerala. She has made umpteen numbers of trips to various countries taking under her wings 1000s of travelers. It was a feather in her cap when she led a group of 110 passengers on the first SilkAir flight from Kochi, and then started the success story of Nalina and her company GnS Leisure Tours.
GnS Leisure Travels Pvt Ltd has gained unparalleled domain expertise, service excellence and customer satisfaction. We have scaled heights through outstanding team work, constant innovation, consistent quality and uncompromising adherence to our vision, mission and core values. Our exceptional service has created thousands of satisfied customers all over the world. We look into details and provide a novel, pleasant and unforgettable experience to our customers
It is her passion and determination to take every Malayalee abroad and make them aware and experience the various international culture & customs. Her future aspiration in life is to pass on the knowledge she has acquired over these years to as many aspiring and budding youngsters. She dreams to build a great network of entrepreneurs who can be future stakeholders in GnS Leisure Tours and take it to new heights.
