Celebrating their mountainous achievement they paid tribute to the Travel and Tourism Association by un-furling the Skål flag at the summit.
DELHI – Skål International is delighted to announce that father and daughter team Ajeet and Deeya Bajaj scaled Mount Everest this week. Ajeet is a member of Skål International Delhi.
The team reached the summit on Wed 16 May 2018 at 4.45 am, Deeya Bajaj a few minutes ahead of her father. They have stamped their place in history since this is the first time that a father and daughter have achieved this monumental feat together.
Celebrating their mountainous achievement they paid tribute to the Travel and Tourism Association by un-furling the Skål flag at the summit. A proud moment for Skål International and Skalleagues across the globe from the Himalayan rooftop of the world to all corners of the world.
Messages have flooded in from many of the 14,000 members of Skål International globally to heartily congratulate Ajeet Bajaj and daughter Deeya Bajaj and to toast in their tremendous achievement.
Andrew J Wood was born in Yorkshire England, he is a former hotelier, Skalleague and travel writer. Andrew has 48 years of hospitality and travel experience. Educated at Batley Grammar School and a hotel graduate of Napier University, Edinburgh. Andrew started his career in London, working with various hotels. His first posting overseas was with Hilton International, in Paris, and he later arrived in Asia in 1991 on Bangkok with his appointment as Director of Marketing at the Shangri-La Hotel and has remained in Thailand ever since. Andrew has also worked with the Royal Garden Resort Group now Anantara (Vice President) and the Landmark Group of Hotels (Vice President of Sales and Marketing). Latterly he has been the General Manager at the Royal Cliff Group of Hotels in Pattaya and the Chaophya Park Hotel Bangkok & Resorts.
A past board member and Director of Skål International (SI), a former National President with SI Thailand and a two time past President of the Bangkok Club. Andrew is the former President of Skål Asia. In 2019, Andrew was awarded SKÅL’s highest award the distinction of Membre D’Honneur.
He is a regular guest lecturer at various Universities in Asia.
