User:(WT-en) SumitVashisht

Sumit is leading Heritage and Adventure Tour Guide cum Escort, based in Shimla, in the North of India. Sumit is an Author, an adventurer and enjoys organising Adventure Tours such as Jeep Safari, Trekking, High Altitude Treks in the Himalayas, Walks through the Himalayan Villages, Motor Cycle Tours, Cycle Tours and Camping Holidays. You are welcome to contact him at himalayanpicture@gmail.com or call him at +919459519620 OR +919816149102. Sumit is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced Tour Guide in this region and has handled various travel shows projects with some of the leading TV channels such as Fox History and Star News and some of the leading trekking companies including Robin Boustead's Great Himalaya Trail.

Sumit is deeply associated with the Tourism industry since 1993. Having traveled extensively in India he considers it privileged to introduce himself as a Professionally Qualified and an Experienced Tour Companion.

After completing his Graduation from Maharishi Dayanand University – Rohtak in 1990 in two major subjects, Geography & Military Science, he found that his passion lay in promoting nature. His future lied somewhere in the hills. So he owes debt of gratitude to a close family friend who had retired from the Tourism Department of Himachal Pradesh. He suggested that Ssumit should first earn a Diploma in Tourism Management from Delhi University which he completed in 1992.

Thereafter, there was no looking back for Sumit. He joined Imaginative Tours (P) Ltd. Delhi as a Tour Executive in 1993 and another company called Connexions in 1996. Both were Inbound Tour Operating Companies based in Delhi whose basic market lay in Germany, Finland and USA. Sumit was required to prepare itineraries, cost them and then send them to agents in foreign countries. Escorting tourist was another essential part of my assignment.

Sumit left them and returned to Shimla, his hometown in 2000 and began to work as a freelance Tour Escort and Heritage Tour  Guide.