Compared with the standard package of Rs 3.5 lakh per person, a tailor-made package for a family of four would cost around Rs 22 lakh for a minimum of eight nights.
Rising costs, service tax and recognition of their own increased brand value has prompted most Indian Institutes of Management to raise placement fees this season -- in some cases like IIM Kozhikode's -- even up to 25 per cent.
IIM Lucknow recently hired a PR agency along with other top schools like ISB, Hyderabad and MDI Gurgaon.
Financial services companies are partnering B-schools to design industry-specific courses.
After taking over the IT hub mantle from Bangalore, Hyderabad has pushed the garden city to second place in terms of recording the fastest average room rate growth.
Come July, professor Nilanjan Chatopadhyay - placement chairman at the Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad - will start living life out of his suitcase, literally.
Top honchos of the corporate world will have their own villas to live in when on their business tours.
Get ready for a different rail travel experience. A special rail coach with a living room, two bathrooms, two toilets and a private kitchen. The catch: You will be allowed to take your own chefs on the trip.
The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) is brimming with ideas and concrete plans for the new year and ahead
With the lateral placements (for students with at least a year's experience) underway and final placement (for freshers) season round the corner, institutes expect this year's placements to be one of the best ever.
With the recruitment process set to end by March 31, 18-20 students have already bagged their first offer and most of them are in the process of finalising their second.
Even as four students turned down lucrative offers from Deutsche Bank to start their own venture, at least two more are set to follow suit.
The company is already planning a second centre in India, most probably on the outskirts of Maharashtra, which would supplement the Vadodara centre.
The first stage of the 27 percent OBC quota is set to be implemented from academic year 2007-08.
The hospitality groups are also looking at a different and 'genuine category' of well-heeled religious tourists.
It's a story of contradictions across the Indian Institute of Managements as far as the 'Certificate Course in Business Administration' for the Officers of the Indian Armed Forces is concerned.
Tourism boards have turned innovative in radio advertising when it comes to promoting their destinations among Indian travellers.
Even as the first batch of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad 's Post Graduate Programme for Executives goes through the pre-placement presentation grind, the institute has just finalised its second batch.
During its summer placements in 2006, six start-up companies had visited the IIM-A campus for the first time, of which six students had interned with them.
With the first batch of IIM-A's PGPx (Post-graduate Programme for Executives) set to conclude its sessions on March 15 next year, the buzz on upcoming placements is in full swing.
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