Re-strategizing Tourism through festivals, food and culture February 26, 2021 Even as vaccines are being administered and there is hope for the return of travel and tourism post COVID-19, the strategies to build the industry back is a challenge in itself. The way people see the world has changed, and so the push to bring travel and tourism back has changed. Festivals, food, and cultural events may be the way forward to enticing tourists to travel again. Ensuring health and safety first via transportation and then at venues, in hotels, and at restaurants are of utmost importance. India should lay greater stress on promotion of rural and community-based tourism and also make use of the many great museums that the country has. These valuable suggestions were made today, February 25, 2021, by Padma Bhushan Shri S.K. Misra, (I.A.S.), Former Principal Secretary to