India’s sustainable businesses show why community-first practices must be the future of all tourism Deepa Krishnan and Fahim Vohra, founders of the travel companies Mumbai Magic and Be The Local, respectively, have deep ties in the communities in Mumbai they work with.
Soon after the lockdown, they started coordinating the distribution of food and cash among residents and daily-wage workers in the Dharavi and Andheri slums with funds crowd-sourced from their networks.
This at a time when they are also confronting difficult decisions about downsizing their own businesses. Faced with a choice of reducing headcount or cutting overheads, Krishnan gave up “office space in Mumbai that had been lovingly built into an events venue with