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Healthy report

Dear Sir

Your article on the premium spas across the country was informative. As a businessman who works 48 hours a day, I often feel the necessity to take a break. But since time is a constraint to me, it is necessary that the short period that I set aside for myself give me maximum returns. Spas look like the perfect avenue for someone like me. They not only combine the idea of giving the much needed respite from the hurly burly of cosmopolitan life but are also a tremendous booster to health. Interestingly, I was a bit amused at how Ayurvedic rejuvenation techniques have so readily been assimilated into the western concept of spas.

Thank you.

Raja Punnathur
Cochin

Go north-east

Dear Sir,
This is with reference to Michael Ferrao’s letter (Mail Box, Business Traveller, August 2). He is correct when he says there is no awareness about the North-east. In my knowledge the tourism industry there is reviving with the government taking initiatives for safe tourist journeys. Many private agencies both from North-east and other parts have started taking initiatives in providing safe and secure journeys. I myself have one such agency and can tell you from experience that we are trying our best.

S Ahmed
shamsud.ahmed@netsophy.com

Capital idea

Dear Sir,
The destination article on Delhi (Business Traveller, August 2) was as comprehensive as it gets. It was both informative and entertaining. I have been to the city just once and was quite lost since I had neither relations nor friends, only a business acquaintance. Though I did a normal tour of the city by going to places of interest, I could not really live it up during my free time there. I wish I had read this article then.

Rajan Menon
Mumbai

Cheers

Dear Sir,
Wine Trotting by Hugh and Colleen Gantzer (Business Traveller, August 2) was a revelation. Who would have thought that Australia, most of whose land is perceived to be barren, is a producer of fine wines. The Gantzers were speaking the truth when they wrote that most people think of Australia as a land of ‘kangaroos, red-necks, Crocodile Dundees and ‘beeyer and barbie’ parties’; as a sparsely populated land three-fourths of which is barren.

So did I. Not anymore.

Suresh Gupta
Delhi