Posted on October 26 2012 -Kalpesh Desai, 32, who drives his own taxi in Mumbai, dreams big these days. Desai's income has gone up 40% in the six months since joining online taxi aggregation startup Ola Cabs. "I will pay off my car loan in two to three years and then buy another car and employ a driver for that," says Desai, the sole bread-winner of his family. "I will become a cab operator from being a driver." But it is not just about the money. "My life has improved," says Desai, who has two young children.

Posted on August 10 2012 -Narendra Kumar shares a special bond with Delhi’s roads. After all, he spends a lot of time on them ferrying the staff of Honda Power. A driver by profession, he has spent 10 to 12 years behind the wheel, but it was not until ‘Pawan Ko Kahin Dekha Kya’ that he realised he had an equally intimate and intense relationship with his watch.

Posted on August 5 2012 -In the fast paced travel industry, everyone must have experienced a bad customer service at least once. The bad experience could have been in a hotel because of an unfriendly housekeeping staff, because of a car driver's inflated billing and money demand, because of a bus conductor's negligent attitude towards tendering exact change. Can these bad services be corrected and converted into a "wow experience"? Will we as a customer get the right service that we are supposed to get for the money we pay? Answer is: Yes. That's exactly GlobalTHEN is trying to achieve. We had the opportunity to meet Ram Badrinathan, Founder & CEO of GlobalTHEN. Ram is one of the leading thinkers and researchers in the online travel space in the Asia Pacific region. Read on to know more about the company.

Posted on July 27 2012 -To promote smooth and safe driving, Tourism Department will be imparting training to the drivers associated with tourism industry.
This was disclosed at a meeting convened by Minister of Tourism, Nawang Rigzin Jora here today.
The meeting was attended by the Minister of State for Home, Tourism and Culture, Nasir Aslam Wani, Commissioner Secretary, Trourism, Atal Dulloo, Director Tourism, Talat Parvez, S.P Tourism and representatives of various Driver Associations.
The meeting deliberated upon the organizing training cum workshop for the drivers especially those associated with tourism industry in all the three regions of the state.

Posted on July 1st 2012 -GlobalTHEN was featured in the Young Turk segment of CNBC-TV 18, one of the leading business channels of south-east Asia. The show, covering upcoming and promising entrepreneurs, interviewed GlobalTHEN CEO Ram Badrinathan and showcased his flagship program 'Pawan Ko Kahin Dekha Kya' - a highly interactive workshop designed to train drivers in skills beyond just driving.

Right from the time it was launched in early 2012, the program has created huge buzz in the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality domain. To know more about the GlobalTHEN and its other unique initiatives, watch and listen to Ram at

Posted on June 16-30, 2012 -GlobalThen, a KarmYog Ventures company gives a better understanding of the scheme of things that revolve around their flagship project 'Pawan Ko Kahin Dekha Kya' — an interactive programme designed to train drivers in soft skills and teach them the tenets of customer service.

Posted on June 6, 2012 -Road rage, rash driving and road accidents have unfortunately become an indispensable part of our lives. According to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, 79 per cent of accidents in 2010-11 occurred due to the drivers’ (as in chauffeur) fault. Realising that it is important to impart soft skills and improving behavioural aspects of drivers if the number of accidents has to be brought down, some companies have introduced special training programmes for drivers.

Posted on April 23, 2012 - Global Travel & Hospitality Education Network (GlobalTHEN), a recently-formed KarmYog Ventures company, plans to expand its operations to other countries in the near future. The company has identified China, Vietnam, and countries in Africa for its next phase of expansion. This was revealed by Ram Badrinathan, Founder & CEO, GlobalTHEN, in an interaction with TravelBiz Monitor. He said the company would commence expansion in line with the next phase of funding for which the company hopes to raise Rs 25 crore in the coming six months.

Team YS posted 21 days ago-A pioneer in the learning and training space focused on the global TTH vertical, GlobalTHEN has launched ‘Pawan Ko Kahin Dekha Kya’, a training module that transforms how drivers work and value their job. Scaled from the idea to execution stage, including the launch in a matter of just 9 months, the product is based on revolutionary OmniDEL approach to learning, conceptualised by Saurabh J Sarkar. Swati Maheshwari talks to Ram Badrinathan, Founder & CEO, GlobalTHEN, exclusively for YourStory.in.

Posted on April 11, 2012-Global Travel & Hospitality Education Network (GlobalTHEN) a KarmYog Ventures aims to focus on transforming learning in the tourism and hospitality industry using technology and interactive media. ‘Pawan Ko Kahin Dekha Kya?’, its flagship product is an interactive program designed to train drivers in soft skills, teach them the tenets of customer service and instill in them a sense of dignity.

Posted on April 17, 2012-After a decade of analyzing data and trends in travel, tourism and hospitality industry, Ram Badrinathan, formerly PhoCusWright’s man for Asia, saw a problem that needed to be solved – building high quality service at the frontline on a mass scale.

With the support of his former company, he developed a Master Class with CEO Philip Wolf and that further validated his idea of developing a new form of e-learning platform and convinced other investors to buy into the idea.

Posted on April 11, 2012-Global Travel & Hospitality Education Network (GlobalTHEN), a startup focused on the tourism and hospitality industry has launched its flagship product- Pawan Ko Kahin Dekha Kya. It is basically an interactive training program for drivers that is designed to inculcate soft skills, customer service etc.

Posted on April 11, 2012-Global Travel & Hospitality Education Network (GlobalTHEN) a KarmYog Ventures aims to focus on transforming learning in the tourism and hospitality industry using technology and interactive media. ‘Pawan Ko Kahin Dekha Kya?’, its flagship product is an interactive program designed to train drivers in soft skills, teach them the tenets of customer service and instill in them a sense of dignity. The program targets everyone from hotels, airlines, destination management companies, travel agencies, cab rental servicPawan ko Kahin Dekha Kya Logoes to MNCs and private car owners. Pawan Ko Kahin Dekha Kya aims at filling the void between what is expected of drivers and what they are currently achieving.

Posted on April 12, 2012-Global Travel & Hospitality Education Network (GlobalTHEN), a startup focused on the tourism and hospitality industry has launched its flagship product- Pawan Ko Kahin Dekha Kya. It is basically an interactive training program for drivers that is designed to inculcate soft skills, customer service etc.

Posted on April 03, 2012-A pioneer in the learning and training space focused on the global TTH vertical, GlobalTHEN has launched ‘Pawan Ko Kahin Dekha Kya’, a training module that transforms how drivers work and value their job. Scaled from the idea to execution stage, including the launch in a matter of just 9 months, the product is based on revolutionary OmniDEL approach to learning, conceptualised by Saurabh J Sarkar.

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Posted on April 12, 2012 - Global Travel &Hospitality Education Network (GlobalTHEN), a start-up focusing on the tourism and hospitality space, is looking to raise an institutional round of funding after roping in big names in the technology and venture capital industries as angel investors, according to a report by Anand Rai in VCCircle.com.

The company received Rs 1.8 crore in an angel round in April last year from big names like Deep Kalra, Founder and CEO, MakeMyTrip; Alok Mittal, MD, Canaan India; Rajiv Vij, CEO, Carzonrent; Philip Wolf, Chairman, PhoCusWright; Peter Harbison, Executive Chairman, Center for Asia Pacific Aviation; Cameron Jones, VP – Commercial, SilverRail Technologies; and Olivier Jager, CEO, Forwardkeys. The firm had been operating in stealth mode until recently.