Clay is an acronym for Club Mahindra And You!. As with the literal meaning, it is shaped and moulded only by the collective imagination of the contributors.
Who can contribute?
Anybody can, after all the Y in Clay is You! If you have a flair for writing or photography, and your content is in the domain of travel, holidaying, vacation (or even food, culture and heritage), you are ready to write for Clay.
What more? There are benefits of being a regular contributor, or having a fantastic contribution. In the next 6 months, we plan to compile a list of some of the best contributions and publish it as a book!. As a regular contributor, you will also stand a chance to be invited for training camps, special events or travel trips.
So what now?
To contribute or for feedback/queries on how to contribute, write to Clay@clubmahindra.com
It was thought that an organization has to gradually graduate from the bottom line concept to triple bottom line concept.
Triple bottom line implies that an organization besides generating profits should also contribute to society and environment.
CHEERS stand for Contributing to Health Environment and Education to Re-vitalize the Society. Under this program Mahindra Holidays undertakes activities involving member to that contribute to betterment of society and environment. These activities are aimed at giving an enhanced and meaningful experience to the members.
CHEERS is a concept where Club Mahindra members are involved in activities directly or indirectly contributing to society. One of the CHEERS activities was to support an orphanage near our resort. A trip to an orphanage along with members invoked unprecedented response. Another initiative under CHEERS is to support local artisans and craftsmen. Mahindra Holidays resorts has a souvenir shop, under CHEERS initiative, and a dedicated space has been allocated for selling locally made goods.
CHEERS, as was aimed has brought cheers to the smile of the lesser privileged and an unique emotive experience to members.
Binsar is a beautiful, quiet and wild Himalayan destination with rich natural surroundings among dense forest. Binsar is perched on top of the Jhandi Dhar hills. This place is situated 33 km north of the Almora town in the Uttarakhand state of India.
A stream in the middle forest reserve of binsar. said to be the primary source of water for the animals. by clakeSnapster
Just love the ambience at the Club Mahindra Binsar and Manali resorts. Here is a photo collage, with a soothing music in the background. Enjoy the clip!
But what is Clay?
Clay is an acronym for Club Mahindra And You!. As with the literal meaning (clay), it is amorphous; shaped and moulded only by the collective imagination of the contributors.
Who can contribute?
Anybody can, after all the Y in Clay is You! Share your experiences, your travelogues, your adventures or just about anything in the domain of holidaying, travel. What more, if you become a regular contributor to Clay, you will be given a digital badge that you can proudly display in you own blog.
Write to clay@clubmahindra.com with the subject “Clay contribute”, if you wish to contribute or would like to know more.
Kiruba: 61000 members (figure at the time of the interview), and right now Club Mahindra is one of the most biggest and preferred holiday destination around. I’m sure it must have all started with a dream. So how and when did this dream of Club Mahindra start.
Ramesh: (smiling) Just a small correction – we are the biggest and we are the best, not one of the biggest and the best.The dream started actually in 1996. It was a dream indentified by the Mahindras. They saw an opportunity in this business, the business model was perfectly alright but it was being run differently by different people and didn’t earn itself a good name.
Infact one of the first thing I did after joining Mahindra was to do a survey about what the public thought of the Mahindras. And in the research that we did one of the imagery was that the Mahindras was compared with the Central Bank of the country and that is a big thing to start off with I suppose in any business and it had its positives in this business.We started out with those pluses but at the same time we needed to beat the path which is different. You had the oppurtunity – here you had a group with a lot of trust worthiness but you still had to make the business work and make an offering to the customer which is different.So this is where it all began and then we started out itself we said we will do something very very different.
We will not go the way everybody else, and when I said everybody else, it means few people within the country and and elsewhere in the world where this business had grown fairly large. We said we will do it differently and when I said differently not for the sake of being different but offering something which the Indian customer would want and appreciate. That is how we started off initially and I think we have managed, in this brief period of 10 years make a name for ourselves, build a brand and as you said have 61000 customers. Read the full story
Sometimes the most beautiful things are right around us . You dont have to travel far and wide to look for them . All we need to do is to ” Just Look Up .” I am referring to the green canopy of trees that line our cityscape , painting our lives with colours, if [...]
Nisha Jha
One of the very few Indian solo women travellers. Passionate about travelling, Nothing excites her more than life's simple little pleasures about new places, people and cultures. She does and vouches for voluntourism as well. She has been travel blogging at "Le Monde - A Poetic Travail" giving insights & intricacies of a place and culture. See her photofeature, click here.
