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I appreciate your service mind, so here the ways to be a part of ISKCON MAYAPURInformation Technology Officer – (Mayapur Tourism Division)Qualifications:Steady spiritual sadhana, and dedication to the mission of HDG A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila PrabhupadaApplicant must have at least two years experience in the IT field.Certifications and college education in IT related is a plus.Job Description:Maintain office computer hardware and softwareMaintain the office phone systemPost articles in a WordPress environmentManage a PrestaShop online store. ( Fulfill orders, and add / remove products)Use Photoshop to design of some advertisementsUse a simple camera to take pictures for some articlesMaintain: Office hours 10:00 – 6:00 with one day weekly off ; Maintenance as per qualifications.Contact: Gopijana Vallabha Das, Email: [email protected] – (Mayapur Tourism Division)Duties:Only for three weeks during Gaura Purnima.Duties based on daily requirements.Required :Pleasing attitude.Good in communication (Hindi & English)EnthusiasticDedicated to serve Srila PrabhupadaMaintain : Service is for 6 hours/Day. Accommodation and Prasadam (2 Times/ Day) will be providedContact : Gopijana Vallabha Das, Email: [email protected],If you are interested in this wonderful opportunity to serve please write to us asap. Please note service is limited and will be served first come first basis.Accounts Assistance – Part Time Service (Mayapur Tourism Division)Duties:Maintain accounts of Mayapur Tourism Division.Confirm payments with treasury on a day to day basisSend confirmation to donorsReconcile statements for any discrepancy.Prepare weekly reports.Provide necessary information to auditors and ensure accounts are maintained as per their guidelines.Required:English speaking (& writing…)Bengali speaking ( preferred but not essential)Good communication skills.Proficient in excel, word.2 years’ experience in accounting jobTeam player.High motivation to serve Srila Prabhupada.Maintain: Office hours 10:00 – 2:00 with one day weekly off ; Maintenance will be givenContact: Gopijana Vallabha Das, Email: [email protected],Tours Coordinator (Mayapur Tourism Division)Duties:Meet and assist guests on arrival to ensure a pleasant stay in Mayapur.Welcome guests by giving them a brief introduction of Sri Mayapur.To plan dham-darshan tour itinerary as per requirement.To update guests on festival of MayapurTo ensure guides take proper care of the guest on the tours assigned to them.Maintain punctuality, quality, and 100% satisfaction of guests on toursCollect feedback and assess team performance half yearly and give report.Maintain accurate database of all visitors.Required:Fluent English speaking & writing skills.Good communication skills.Possess skill to motivate the team to excel in their area of service.Basic computer skills (emails, windows, office, Excel).Should possess interpersonal skills and able to handle difficult situation successfully.High motivation to serve Srila Prabhupada.Maintain: Office hours 10:00 – 4:00 with one day weekly off ; Maintenance as per standardsContact: Gopijana Vallabha Das, Email: [email protected],Tours Officer (Mayapur Tourism Division)Duties:To process room booking as per the requirement,Communicate clearly through emails and phone mails.Strive to “close a package deal” and secure payment within two daysLiaise with travel agents and encourage them to hold corporate tours in Mayapur.Required:Fluent English speaking & writing skills.Good communication skills.Experience in sales is an advantage.Must be a team player.Basic computer skills (emails, windows, office, Excel).Candidate with experience in Tour & Travel industry or Hotel industry will be given preference.High motivation to serve Srila Prabhupada.Maintain: Office hours 10:00 – 4:30, with one day weekly off; Maintenance as per standardsContact: Gopijana Vallabha Das, Email: [email protected],Mayapur ISKCONSo i listed the various work at the temple.

As someone who travels a lot, I have quite a few hotel room ‘hacks’ that I use regularly, plus a few that I no longer need to use. but are great for budget travelers.Use hotel-branded credit cards to get elite statuses at hotel chains I don’t use very often. For example, I only stay at Hilton properties once or twice a year, but because I have a Hilton credit card, I automatically get the elite status that gets me upgrades and free breakfast every time I do stay at a Hilton property. Similarly, I rarely stay at Radisson properties, but in advance of a stay at a gorgeous new Radisson hotel in Cartagena, I signed up for a Radisson-branded credit card that got me the highest elite level with Radisson, which resulted in an upgrade to a two-bedroom penthouse suite; in addition, between the sign-on bonus and the points earned from that stay in Cartagena, I had enough points for a three-night stay in a luxury hotel in Manhattan, worth over $1200.^ My fabulous suite upgrade at the Radisson Cartagena, due to new credit card!2. Use the JP Morgan - Ritz Carlton credit card to get free upgrades to the club floor at Ritz Carlton hotels. The club lounges at Ritz Carlton hotels puts all other US club or executive lounges to shame, with five food and beverage presentations per day, complimentary free-flowing fine wines, champagne, and excellent food all day long, butler service, free garment pressing, free use of boardrooms, etc. This comes at a price, of course; the club floor rooms are usually $150 - $250 more per day than a regular room. However, the JP Morgan - Ritz Carlton credit card entitles one to 21 nights a year of free upgrades to the club floor, confirmed at time of booking, and not based on availability. The card is pricey (about $400 a year), but just a few nights on the club floor pays for the card. Plus, it has a host of other benefits, including a $100 hotel credit per stay, up to $300 of reimbursements for airline fees (luggage, drinks, change fees, etc.), $100 for Global Entry or TSA Pre-Check fees, and unlimited visits to hundreds of fabulous airport lounges. I estimate that on average, the $400 I pay for the card gets me over $3000 of benefits every year!^ Complimentary snacks at the Ritz Club Lounge in New Orleans3. Email the assistant general manager of a hotel in advance with any special requests, and also email the concierge for itinerary help. If you email the GM, he or she will likely simply pass on the email to the assistant GM, whereas the assistant GM is more likely to be very eager to please, in hopes of praise that will help him or her get an eventual promotion to GM. Emailing the assistant GM in advance, letting them know that this is a special stay, and asking for a special room or suggestions for special things to do, has resulted in some pretty amazing upgrades and experiences for me, including upgrades to a two-bedroom suite with six balconies overlooking the Grand Canal in Venice, a two-bedroom suite overlooking the Taj Mahal, the Imperial Suite in Vienna, and a private meeting for drinks with the Prince of Rajasthan!^ View of Taj Mahal from the bathroom of my upgraded, two-bedroom suite!4. Send thank you notes to hotel staff who help you, and compliment notes to the hotel GM, praising employees who went above and beyond. Not only is this the right thing to do, you never know where hotel employees will show up in the future. For example, upon arrival at the Four Seasons in Buenos Aires, I found that I’d been upgraded to a suite on the club floor, and when I got to the room, in addition to a large fruit bowl, there was a note from the GM, who happened to have been an assistant GM that I had praised in his former position at a hotel in Boston!5. If you aren’t thrilled with the first room you are given, ask to be shown other rooms that are available. Often, there is a room with a much better view, or that is more spacious, etc. It never hurts to ask, and when you do ask, they generally offer up the best rooms they have available, so the process doesn’t take too long!6. Write meaningful reviews on TripAdvisor, and be sure that you have a reasonable distribution of star ratings. A few years ago, I stayed at a luxury hotel in Dubrovnik. It was a local Croatian chain, so I had no elite status, nor was it affiliated with any chain with which I had status. I booked two rooms on Expedia at the cheapest rate available, yet when my travel companions and I checked in, we had been upgraded to two huge, one-bedroom suites, both over 1000 square feet, and one of which had a 1200 square foot, private deck that overlooked the sea. The evening before departing, when I mentioned that we had to leave before breakfast started, they offered to set up a mini-buffet in our suite! I was baffled as to why they treated us so well, so when I got home, I asked a friend (who was a GM at a Ritz Carlton) his thoughts. He told me that it was because I have ‘a perfect Tripadvisor profile’ with a great distribution of star ratings and lots of reviews, so my reviews were considered to be of influence. Clearly the hotel chose well, as my review of that property has been viewed over 20,000 times since then (which is a lot for Tripadvisor).^ The 1200 square foot, private deck off of my upgraded suite in Dubrovnik7. Keep a cube tap in my travel bag. Unless they have been recently renovated, hotel rooms often do not have enough outlets for everything I need. This little helper saves me from having to hope the hotel has one!8. Keep the room-darkening shades closed in order to sleep well. For some reason, most hotel room-darkening shades do not stay fully closed, leaving an annoying gap that usually lets light in. A variety of common items work to hold the drapes closed, including a paper clip, the pocket clip on a pen, and the clamps on trouser hangers!9. Keep a shoe in the safe. To prevent forgetting to remove items from the in-room safe, put one of the shoes you wear when you travel in the safe; when you get ready to leave, having to search for your other shoe will remind you to open the safe and retrieve your items.10. Never use “Please clean room” signs. Using the “Please clean room” sign tells everyone, including potential thieves, that the room is vacant. Instead, just call housekeeping and ask that they clean the room now.And, a few I don’t use any more, but are helpful for budget travelers:A) Use the in-room electric kettle or coffee-maker to make ramen noodles. Just be nice and wash it afterwards!B) Use the iron and hair dryer to reheat pizza. Most hotel rooms have a mini-bar or mini-fridge where you can store leftover pizza, but many do not have a microwave to reheat food. An iron plus hair dryer heats up leftover pizza quickly, while keeping the crust crisp! Again, be nice and clean the iron afterwards!

Here is an answer I gave to a slightly different question-about British thoughts on India and Indian people.I am Scottish and British,and have been to India many times. My first visit was as a young newly married man in 1984, and my last was a couple of years ago.I have travelled through many parts, but mainly in the South.It really started when I worked with a load of Indian guys in the 1980s and they gave us our first itinerary based around Bangalore. They were so pleased we were desperate to see it as they came from around that area. This was of course when Bangalore was still viewed as a “Garden” city not the sprawling metropolis it is now. I was and am hooked.At the time comparatively few British went to India. Those who did tended to go to the more popular tourist destinations further North. This was before Goa and such like became popular cheap package with British people.My new wife and I used the trains buses, and of course motorbikes/rickshaws and met overwhelmingly fab people. (She is a Yoga teacher so has been fascinated by the whole country and culture since time immemorial. ) We have always tried to avoid the tourist traps and have tried hard to meet ordinary Indian people. We were not and are not “hippies”. We have always had enough money to do as we wished (within reason), so I believe we have contributed rather than tried to view India as just a cheap holiday destination.We have always avoided the obvious “Western Hotels” and have never booked from the UK but always when we arrive. That has been both an experience and a trial.The people we met were overwhelmingly brilliant. That has been the case in all of our journeys.When my son was 16 we took him and his female cousin touring by train round the south. He absolutely adored it and now is very keen to tour around with his new wife. I should add we have always done this independently and run away from the organised tour approach.We LOVE the food. Of course we know Indian food in the UK is a hybrid and mainly run by Bangladeshi people. Why wouldn’t we?There were obvious things that struck me and my family about India as a country.The natural beauty, scenery, the aromas (in both a good and a bad way), the colours and the crowds in the cities.The varieties of the food. We love the different flavours in the different areas. Also the sheer complexity of the country. It is after all a continent. The different languages, culture and religions. Huge.What are the bad things?Well here goes-the thing that struck me most on my first visit is how badly very poor people were treated by some Indian people. To me it was like they were viewed as beneath consideration almost like slaves. That was upsetting.Also the attitude by some to women to western eyes is shocking.My niece was subjected to some pretty sexist approaches. She is a young attractive woman and that was troubling. Please understand, this is not a reflection on Indian people, just on some ignorant jerks. It was very noticeable and we are extensive travellers. So our experiences of harassment of young women seem to be still going on.I would love to think we have just been unlucky as there are creeps everywhere.The other thing is how much litter and waste is allowed to gather on the streets. That has got immeasurably worse since we started visiting all those years ago. Particularly plastics. The last time we saw a lot of fires burning plastics. Wow. That really is not good.I also have to mention the petty corruption we were subjected to. In my view if anything is holding back India, it is this, as clearly it seems to go to the highest levels. There is corruption everywhere of course ,but it is very noticeable .As I have said the people were brilliant. So will I go back?Too right can’t wait. Love the whole thing.However, lumping all people in as one is of course dangerous. Just as all “British” is very difficult to summarise so is all “ Indians.”I know Indian people or people of Indian descent in the UK, and while generalisations are dangerous, overwhelmingly they are viewed by me and every British person I know as hard working, ambitious and really keen to get on.Striving hard to be educated.You couldn’t ask for more.EDIT -I really hate to have to write this but on our recent trip to Cuba last month and since writing the article, we met a charming young German girl travelling on her own. She had been just about everywhere. Asia,North and South America, Japan Korea Indonesia as well as Australia and New Zealand.She was advising another older Dutch woman who really wanted to visit India as a lone traveller. My wife and I of course as always, encourage people to visit. India has so much to offer. As I have said above we love the place.Sadly, the only place on her multiple travels she didn’t feel safe was in India. She wouldn’t go on her own again. She strongly advised going with a male partner. That was on a recent trip. She had been very uncomfortable on a number of occasions and had been touched “inappropriately” . Her words not mine.