PurposeThe coronavirus pandemic has triggered a paradigm shift in all businesses, and given the restrictions that followed, hospitality and tourism has been significantly affected. This article identifies some emerging issues and trends in hospitality and tourism businesses related to this, and in so doing, it introduces the theme issue.Design/methodology/approachThe article draws on recent reports and articles and on several rounds of discussion between academics, practitioners and other stakeholders to identify the issues arising, which are then explored in the articles featured in this theme issue.FindingsThe study findings reveal that the pandemic response has prompted advances in technology, profit management, training, service blueprinting and online education, coupled with industry integration, sustainability practices, housekeeping services, medical tourism and virtual tourism among others.Originality/valueThe theme issue sought to address the real-life issues that are impacting hospitality and tourism in India and some of the wider implications. This exploratory work is based on inputs from industry professionals, policymakers and other stakeholders in relation to the emerging issues and the formulation of strategies to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on hospitality and tourism businesses in India.

The role of eosinophil and migratory dendritic cell (migDC) subsets during tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE), a potentially fatal complication of lymphatic filariasis, has not been explored. We show that the onset of TPE is characterized by the accumulation of ROS and anaphylatoxins and a rapid influx of morphologically distinct Siglec-Fint resident eosinophils (rEos) and Siglec-Fhi inflammatory eosinophils (iEos) in the lungs, BAL fluid, and blood of TPE mice. While rEos display regulatory behavior, iEos are highly inflammatory cells, as evident in upregulated expression of activation markers CD69 and CD101, anaphylatoxin receptor C5AR1, alarmins s100a8 and s100a9, components of NADPH oxidase, and copious secretion of TNF-α, IFN-γ, IL-6, IL-1β, IL-4, IL-10, IL-12, and TGF-β. Importantly, iEos exhibited heightened ROS generation, higher phagocytic and increased antigen presentation capacity, elevated Ca2+ influx, and increased F-actin polymerization but downregulated negative regulators of the immune response, i.e., Cd300a, Anaxa1, Runx3, Lilrb3, and Serpinb1a, underlining their essential role in promoting lung damage during TPE. Interestingly, TPE mice also showed significant expansion of CD24+CD11b+ migDCs, which showed upregulated expression of maturation and costimulatory markers CD40, CD80, CD83, CD86, and MHCII, increased antigen presentation capacity, and higher migratory potential as evidenced by increased expression of cytokine receptors CCR4, CCR5, CXCR4, and CXCR5. CD24+CD11b+ migDCs also upregulated the expression of immunoregulators PD-L1 and PD-L2 and secreted proinflammatory cytokines, suggesting their significant involvement during TPE. Taken together, we document important morphological, immunophenotypic, and functional characteristics of eosinophil and migDC subsets in the lungs of TPE mice and suggest that they contribute to worsening lung histopathological conditions during TPE.

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of culture in economic growth in areas where the Shilpgram fair is facilitated in Rajasthan. Design/methodology/approach -The data are acquired through primary and secondary data with individual meetings, interviews and questionnaires. Findings -The study uncovered that the Shilpgram fair is expanding mindfulness and financial development of rural life and crafts particularly for younger people. Originality/value -This study presents recognition of the financial effects of tourism on neighbouring group association in tourism development.

Purpose – The paper aims to describe how the Infosys leadership institute is preparing a pool of talent to take over running the company in the years ahead. Design/methodology/approach – It examines the priorities at the institute, considers other development initiatives in the firm and describes the company’s policies in the areas of employee well-being and engagement. Findings – It highlights the importance of communication, work-life balance, equal opportunities and employee engagement. Practical implications – It details the ways in which InStep, the company’s global internship program, draws students from business, technology and the liberal arts to work on high-impact projects involving strategy and cutting-edge research. Social implications – It reveals that the company’s stock-options program has helped to create some of India’s first salaried millionaires. Originality/value – It provides an insight into the engagement of talent at a major international organization.

Atmospheric toxicants in the form of heavy metals are major threat to human species on earth. Heavy metalions are accumulative in nature and non-biodegradable. There minute amount in human body is verydangerous, henceforth there removal is necessary. Many physical and chemical methods like ion- exchange,ultra filtration, reverse osmosis, electrochemical treatment, chemical precipitation, evaporation, membranetechnologies are employed for remediation of heavy metals from wastewaters but due to some disadvantagesthere is a requirement of such bioremediation technology which should be environmental friendly and a natural method. Biosorption is one such method which is of great attractive alternative of conventionalmethods. Bioremediation technologies are now linked to bioreactors to make removal process more efficientfrom wastewater. Performance of some bioreactors is found to be very good for the removal of heavymetals through biosorption. So, one objective of this paper is to highlight the efficiency ofbiosorptioninvolved in bioreactors. Here we discuss different types of bioreactors fixed bed, fluidized bioreactor, stirredtank, airlift bioreactors which are being used for the biosorption process. This article alsohighlights thesignificance of standard bioreactors and a possible usage of nanoparticles based bioreactorswhich willdefinitely be very useful in near future. Further, green synthesis of nanoparticles is also aninterestingtechnology that will revolutionize the process of biosorption.