Speakers

Antara Phookan is the 2nd Gen Owner/ Director of Business Development and Design at Assam Bengal Navigation Co.(ABN) and Jungle Travels India (JTI) Group in east India. 

Assam Bengal Navigation Co. (ABN) established in 2003, is the pioneering long-distance river cruise company in India that earmarked India’s greatest Himalayan Rivers, the Brahmaputra & the Ganges in the world river cruising map. This family-owned 'conscious luxury' portfolio consists of 4 river cruise ships, 2 private houseboats and the Diphlu River Lodge, an eco-safari lodge in Kaziranga National Park, a Unesco WHS in Assam which hosted Prince & Princess of Wales, William & Kate during their royal visit to India.

She graduated from a French Business School in Paris and Antibes with a Masters in Business Management specialising in Marketing & Business Development. During the past decade, she has been living between France and Spain and has explored far and wide to purposefully gain a lifetime of experiences as a nature-seeker, an adventurer and an epicurean, she speaks 5 languages (including French and Spanish) and has solo ‘slow’ travelled through 65+ countries to date. 

Antara is well-experienced in the tourism realm of India, having been involved since a young age. She specialises in niche travel marketing and business development, regenerative tourism and in consciously-led high value, low volume tourism catering to the experiential luxury traveller.