Events & Conferences
Gatherings That Gave Small Hotels a Larger Voice.
Since 2009, RARE has brought together owner-hoteliers, travel partners, media and curious travellers in spaces designed for conversation, visibility and meaningful exchange.
From the very beginning, it felt natural for RARE to bring its hotel community into the same room as the travel fraternity, media and discerning travellers. What began as an instinct grew into a series of showcases, conversations, roadshows, exhibitions and forums that helped small, owner-led hotels find their voice in a crowded industry.
Many boutique hotels trace some part of their early journey back to RARE, where they first found the confidence, language and network to tell their stories to the travel world.
The RARE Showcase
Where Independent Hotels Take Centre Stage
Design and Concept
In a world often dominated by large brands and familiar concepts, the RARE Showcase was created to give owner-led hotels their own platform.
Started in 2017, it allowed RARE hoteliers to share their stories directly, without being overshadowed by scale or sameness.
By its sixth edition in 2023, the Showcase had become a space for fifty hoteliers to present their journeys with authenticity, while adopting low-impact practices, no-plastic principles, thoughtful technology and a strong sense of community.
During the pandemic, RARE moved the experience online through RAREfied, becoming one of the early events to use Zoom and live chats at scale, with over 20 hours of programming and more than 3000 viewers.
A Conference for Travel as a Force for Good
BRIDGES is RARE's annual conference for conscious travel, created to bring together changemakers committed to responsible, inclusive and low-impact tourism.
The event shines a light on the Subcontinent's most thoughtful owner-run hotels, niche experience curators and sustainability-led practices. It is designed as a space for honest conversation, new ideas and difficult questions, from community impact and conservation to carbon emissions as a benchmark for responsible hospitality.
BRIDGES is not only a conference. It is RARE's call to build a more collaborative future for travel.
Discover RARE
Chai, Samosa and the Quiet Revolution of Travel Conversations
An intimate discovery of the Destination
Discover by RARE changed the format of hotel presentations by stepping away from five-star glamour and formal excess. Instead, it chose the iconic simplicity of chai and samosa at the India International Centre.
Built as a knowledge-led series, Discover brought hotel partners, travel companies and experts together through presentations, talks and masterclasses on communication, social media and changing travel markets.
In 2020, the tenth year of Discover by RARE moved online, keeping the conversation alive through the pandemic. As RARE's domestic presence grew, Discover expanded into regional centres including Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai, with additional roadshows in Kolkata, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.
Reaching Esoteric Travellers
Finding the Traveller Who Knows What They Are Looking For
Small hotels often struggle with visibility, especially among travellers searching for personal, unusual and deeply rooted experiences. RARE has quietly built bridges to these audiences through Embassy fairs, expat networks, Diwali melas, heritage fairs, India Craft Week, The Earth Collective and other like-minded gatherings.
This is one of RARE's least loudly spoken efforts, but perhaps one of its most meaningful: taking owner-led hotels closer to travellers who value authenticity, place and personal connection.
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