Sustainable Travel Spotlight: Shanti Kohli
As part of Virtuoso’s ongoing commitment to sustainable travel, we’re profiling the experts, trendsetters, and industry leaders making a difference in sustainable tourism today. Here, a conversation with Shanti Kohli, the managing director of Amber Tours, a Virtuoso tour operator specializing in bespoke adventures to India and surrounding Asian countries. Shanti Kohli visiting a nunnery in Bhutan. In 1972, Avi Kohli revolutionized luxury tourism in India when he founded Amber Tours with Sawai Bhawani Singh, the former Maharaja of Jaipur. The two men wanted to move away from cookie-cutter monument jaunts and give travelers access to the “real” India – full of glorious history, grand royal palaces, breathtaking landscapes, and local people with unique traditions and customs. Amber Tours helped open many tourism destinations in India as it began offering custom holidays and private tours. As an adventurer and avid lover of nature, Avi Kohli understood not only what to see in...