Enchanters Newsletter, March 2026

A Note from Melanie Taylor, Vice President of Marketing

But much importantly, I’ve learned truthful overmuch astir the world! Working with a squad connected 4 antithetic continents (often astatine the aforesaid time) was/is an unexpected payment of Enchanting Travels. I’ve loved being exposed to antithetic cultures, holidays, traditions, and ways of working. Despite immoderate aboriginal mornings and a fewer precocious nights, collaborating with truthful galore smart, caring, profoundly committed radical who are each focused connected making people’s question dreams travel existent is genuinely inspiring. 

I’ve besides been fortunate capable to conscionable galore of you successful person. Between visitors to the Denver office, visiting the Travelopia bureau successful the UK, and attending the GMT gathering successful Lisbon, it has been truthful beauteous to person 3-D interactions with everyone who typically lives wrong Google Meets. The hugs, laughs, thought exchanges were truthful meaningful, and gathering truthful galore caller radical that I hadn’t the pleasance of moving with yet was the icing connected top.

As we determination forward, I’m truthful excited to proceed to signifier the Enchanting Travels marque with an astonishing team. Our enactment to make a caller logo and tagline (“The Art of Luxury Custom Travel”) was conscionable the beginning. I judge determination is endless imaginable successful emotionally connecting with our guests and to cement our marque arsenic the person successful the industry. 

Thank you truthful overmuch for the precise lukewarm welcome. If we haven’t met oregon if you person immoderate questions oregon selling needs, delight scope retired anytime! 

Melanie

GMT Lisbon and Project Jetstream

The main docket of this Global Management Team Meeting successful Lisbon successful December 2025 was to Reignite, Realign and Accelerate. Project Jetstream, was launched to stimulate growth, physique commercialized capabilities and scalabilities and to sermon AI transformation.

The GMT included enlightening and interactive sessions passim the week, each led by our cardinal functions; Sales, Marketing, Product, Ops, HR and Finance. It was a large accidental to larn from colleagues astir the concern and align connected shared priorities and astir importantly to walk in-person prime time.

Holiday celebrations astir the satellite (Kenya, UK, Denver)

Nairobi

United Kingdon

Denver

News from Kenya

Award from Nairobi Chapel for hiring interns. We are arrogant to stock that our Kenya squad received a peculiar grant from Nairobi Chapel this past October. Beyond the trophy, we worth our deep-rooted concern with the Chapel, supporting their ngo done yearly assistance donations and providing vocation pathways for their talented interns.

Pedals and Teamwork. On February 13th, our Nairobi squad traded their desks for handlebars, enjoying a refreshing cycling excursion done the beauteous Karura Forest (Nairobi Road Forest Sanctuary).

Finance Team Spotlight

This month, we are thrilled to propulsion backmost the curtain and showcase our Finance Team. Often seen arsenic the keepers of the spreadsheets, our Finance colleagues bash truthful overmuch much than conscionable “crunch numbers.” They are the strategical architects of our growth, the navigators of our fiscal health, and the partners who assistance each different section crook ambitious ideas into reality. 

Scroll beneath to enactment a look to each sanction that you whitethorn person heard successful your interactions with them and get to cognize thing meaningful astir them arsenic they archer america astir a memorable event/journey they experienced oregon conscionable an absorbing anecdote from the past six months.

Boniface Muthui, Finance Coordinator (18 years with ET, Nairobi-Kenya)

In February, I joined my colleagues for a cycling escapade astatine the Ngong Racecourse Sanctuary, and it turned retired to beryllium 1 of the astir refreshing experiences I’ve had successful the past fewer months. Between navigating gentle hills, chatting on the route, and laughing astatine our occasional wobbly moments, it became a cleanable blend of fittingness and squad bonding.

Pradeep Kumar K, Senior Coordinator -Artemis Cost Control (14 years with ET, Bengaluru)

One of my favourite puerility foods is temple saaru (rasam). Growing up, I often missed it—it was thing I genuinely wished for, either arsenic portion of a afloat repast oregon conscionable arsenic a comforting soup, but I could seldom person it arsenic beingness got busy. I’ve been connected a ngo to recreate the aforesaid sensation astatine home, experimenting with recipes from my edifice friends, cooks, and adjacent YouTube—but I inactive haven’t been capable to lucifer the authentic flavor. Last month, I yet had the accidental to bask temple “saaru” each time during a temple ceremony, without missing a azygous day. Each sip brought backmost puerility memories and reminded maine that immoderate flavors and experiences can’t truly beryllium replicated—they person to beryllium lived. It was simple, nostalgic, and amazingly joyful—a tiny but unforgettable treat.

Smitha Venurajan, Senior Finance Executive (10 years with ET, Bengaluru)

I joined ET successful July 2010 and resigned successful Sept 2016. Rejoined successful May 2022 and person been with ET since then. Whilst I americium from the confederate authorities of Kerala, I had ne'er explored the quality until past December erstwhile I got a accidental to sojourn Munnar with my family. We went hiking and enjoyed the beauteous landscapes and the delicious cuisine. The monsoons are my favourite play of the twelvemonth arsenic you tin archer from my photo.

Shivraj S Poojary, Finance Reporting & Controls Manager (8 years with ET, Bengaluru)

Over the past year, my household trips took maine from the snowy slopes of Kashmir to the tea-scented hills of Kerala. In Gulmarg and Sonmarg, we turned into kids again,catching snowflakes and gliding done the achromatic wonderland. A shikara thrust connected Dal Lake was axenic magic, portion a pony thrust successful Pahalgam gave america conscionable the close dose of adventure. 

Fast guardant to Kerala, wherever Munnar and Thekkady wrapped america successful greenish hills and endless beverage plantations. And successful Alleppey, we slowed down with backwater views close extracurricular our resort. From snowball fights to sipping caller brews, it was a travel that blended thrill and chill successful the champion mode possible!

Shruthi Nesargikar, Finance Director (6 years with ET, Bengaluru)

A amusive lawsuit from caller times is my Holi solemnisation with friends and family. Holi is simply a fashionable Indian festival that celebrates the accomplishment of outpouring and triumph of bully implicit evil. People propulsion agleam coloured powders, dance, devour delicious nutrient and crook the full time into one, big, joyful colour party.

Madhu Lodhi, Senior Finance Executive and Cost Controller (3 years 8 months with ET, Bengaluru)

During a travel to Goa with my brother, I spent clip by the oversea balancing stones. It was a meaningful reminder that life, overmuch similar those stones, requires patience and balance. When you find that close touch, everything stands beautifully successful place. It was a fantastic infinitesimal of gathering peace, 1 tiny measurement astatine a time.

Naveen Kumar G, Senior AR Compliance & Specialist (3 years with ET, Bengaluru)

In January, I was connected a 10 time household travel covering Puri, Kolkata, and Jharkhand which I enjoyed tremendously and got to spot a antithetic portion of the country.

Rajendra B. S., Accounts Payable Specialist (2.5 years with ET, Bengaluru)

I was conscionable reminiscing astir my travel to Goa with household and friends past November—Our travel began astatine the sun-drenched Arambol Beach, a 16-km bohemian paradise wherever rugged cliffs met a safe, sparkling shoreline cleanable for the kids to explore. In the evenings, we traded the soil for the electrical vigor of Casino Pride, indulging successful gourmet flavors and dazzling unrecorded performances that lit up the night. Our last time led america to the historical stones of Aguada Fort, wherever we marveled astatine its 17th-century architecture, past freshwater spring, and iconic lighthouse. Standing precocious supra the crashing waves, we soaked successful a breathtaking panoramic presumption of the Arabian Sea—the ultimate, serene finale to a genuinely unforgettable household getaway.

Navyashree M, Senior Finance Executive (2 years with ET, Bengaluru)

As portion of our CSR audit successful Pondicherry, we journeyed to the Sadhana Forest, a sanctuary of tranquility wherever quality and assemblage thrive together. After mounting retired successful the chill hush of aboriginal greeting and gathering for a lukewarm instauration session, we were invited to acquisition a unsocial mud bath crafted for relaxation and renewal. It was surrounded by towering trees and the earthy clasp of the mud felt ground.

Roshan Lawrence Pais, Accounts Payables Specialist (1 twelvemonth with ET, Bengaluru)

One amusive lawsuit aft joining ET was watching the RCB lucifer astatine a edifice gathering organized by our office. As a existent RCB fan, it was a large acquisition to bask the lucifer with colleagues, and it became adjacent much peculiar erstwhile RCB won.

Sirisha Vaddi, Sr Finance Controller (4 months with ET, Bengaluru)

Gardening is my hobby and precocious I person been experimenting with increasing beets and radish on with kale & spinach. I americium blessed to stock from the representation that this experimentation was a success.

Nikhat Nehan, FP&A Manager (1 period with ET, Bengaluru)

I went trekking successful Kandaghat, Himachal Pradesh with a radical of radical I had conscionable met. By the clip we reached the top, we realised nary of america really knew the mode backmost , but the orangish skies made the escapade wholly worthy it.

Enchanting Babies

Rosalie and babe Marlene; Mitra with her daughter

Trivia

Can you conjecture what our apical destinations were successful 2025 successful presumption of gross generated? (a) Japan (b) Italy (c) South Africa

THANKS FOR READING

The station Enchanters Newsletter, March 2026 appeared archetypal connected Enchanting Travels.