Museum of Stories
From concept to operation, dream to design each destination hotel of the RARE Community is a story worth being told many times, in different ways. If RARE were a physical entity, it would fill multiple rooms with sepia toned photos of heritage preservation, gold tinted handover documents to erstwhile royalty, herbariums filled with many flowering grasses, sketches of iridescent sunsets, voices of happy animals, footsteps of artists, photographers and film makers, art, craft, textiles, books, dreams, hopes and vision….. each drawing you into their stories. Many times you will enter a story, this collection is an ode to every hotel of the community, the destination may be different, but every story is worth celebrating.
Light Footprint Tourism
Ideally, this attribute of the RARE Touchstones should cover a lot of things, hence we look at light footprint tourism from two perspectives. One is the impact on the environment, culture, land and its people even as a hotel is being designed and built and the second is the impact that is created...
Sensitive Destination...
For a long time when experiential was still not such a widely (mis) used term, destinations were defined by what was popular and promoted extensively. So tourism curation was largely like ‘match the following’ (if you remember this from school); that meant Agra – Taj Mahal,...
Soulitude by the Riverside:...
Conscious Luxury is to use just what one may need,
Anything more is just greed.
Agreed!
– Manish Chandra
An eye on conservation of nature, preserving local culture and providing economic support to the local community is an integral part of Soulitude’s ethos. An...
Soulitude in the Himalayas:...
Conscious Luxury is to use just what one may need,
Anything more is just greed.
Agreed!
– Manish Chandra
An eye on conservation of nature, preserving local culture and providing economic support to the local community is an integral part of Soulitude’s ethos. An...
The Lodge at Wah:...
The Lodge was built by the Prakash family specifically as a home to lead a wholesome, healthy lifestyle away from city life. While the Wah Tea Estate has been in the family since 1953, there was a general inclination to protect the natural beauty of the area. Thus, there begun a quest to...
Wild Gardens
To the untrained eye, stylish cottages slightly raised and standing amidst tall grass, unwieldy shrubs, trees that bear gnarled barks with thorny branches look like unkempt landscape. But if you look closer you will see wild seeded fruits, pods and grains, these are what the earth naturally puts...
Water Conservation
This quote by Prophet Muhammed will always be relevant “Do not waste water even if you were at a running stream”.
And this is how we look at water within the community and for many of us it is a personal perspective as well. Misuse of this precious resource should grate on...
Local Community Engagement
A tourism and hospitality project that engages the local community is a big piece in sustainable and inclusive travel. While for many of us visiting rural areas, forest reserves or communities in the fringe of urban centres is a break away from our routines, for the community it is their day to...
Energy Efficiency
Ancient Hindu scriptures talk about the oneness of the cosmos as a reverberating energy field, the Old Testament's recognition of GOD who said "Let there be light”; through the quantified, verified and intellectual assertion of great minds such as Einstein...
Heritage Preservation
We live with a lot of heritage around, always have but to a large extent unconscious and oblivious to its value – tangible, intangible and often twisted out of context. Announced, mostly unspoken yet always there...for the discerning to discover and appreciate. At RARE you will...
Where is your power ?
The Tiger CEO by Sharad Vats
Never again will you confer the title of ‘tiger’ to anyone without considerable thought, to be a Tiger is a tall order. The Tiger in the jungles of India is a legend of our times, a survivor and walks assured in the knowledge of who he is. The Tiger...
Love in Mandu
I spent 3 nights and a lifetime in Mandu. It was the annual Mandu Festival and I was invited. Fed by beautiful images in my head from memories of Bollywood films shot amidst the beautiful buildings of Mandu, stories my friends have told me about the beauty of Mandu.... here I was !
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