{"id":999,"date":"2022-08-15T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.isb.edu\/student-blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:22:06","slug":"from-uplifting-the-north-east-tourism-to-pursuing-mba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.isb.edu\/student-blog\/2022\/08\/15\/from-uplifting-the-north-east-tourism-to-pursuing-mba\/","title":{"rendered":"From uplifting the North-East tourism to pursuing MBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, when I went back to visit my hometown in North-East, I knew there was something different. It wasn\u2019t the place, but my perspective. \u201cHow can something so beautiful be so unknown to the world?\u201d, I thought to myself. At this very moment, I made the decision to quit my corporate job in Mumbai and work on bridging the gap between the Northeast and mainland India.\u00a0I convinced three of my college friends to shift to the North-East and join me in the vision to help travellers explore more than five hundred diverse tribes of the region. ChaloHoppo, an experiential tourism company, was established as a result. We worked at the grassroots level, developed tourism products, and were wholly committed to the triple bottom line. We educated people with real content from the North-East of India via social media platforms. With our efforts we could successfully bring many places of North-East India on the world map.<\/p>\n<p>But things took a turn during the pandemic when the whole tourism industry went through a standstill. I came to the realisation that it was time to move to higher education and acquire new skills. I felt I could benefit from this free time to study the science underlying decisions like pricing and negotiation as I was making the majority of them intuitively. Even though it was one of the hardest choices I had to make, I decided to leave my startup.<\/p>\n<p>My ups and downs-filled journey led me to ISB, where I aspire to have a greater impact on the Indian business community. The perks of fantastic network and academic atmosphere took me to the institute and set me on the journey of lifelong transformation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chetan Jalan, PGP Co&#8217;23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, when I went back to visit my hometown in North-East, I knew there was something different. It wasn\u2019t the place, but my perspective. \u201cHow can something so beautiful be so unknown to the world?\u201d, I thought to myself. 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