Having worked his way up as the Head of HR & Admin of a large Public Company in Kolkata, in May 2013 Vishal Tupper decided to quit his job and start his own tourism company, Crossindia Cruises.

The Crossindia Leisure Cruises evolved to uplift the maritime tourism industry through operating, aggregating and curating boat based tours, events, and charters.

In 2013 Vishal started the first of its kind adventure boat tour south of Kolkata, West Bengal themed the ‘Pirates Party Adventure Boat Tour’. The essence of the tour was to have the customers experience a boat sailing tour in a limited controlled exposure to the sea environment to experience how boat navigation, sailing and island camping is done. The whole tour was conducted on the boat which became one of the top attractions and things to do in Trip Advisor.

The next phase of transition took place to the barge division where Crossindia Cruises was instrumental in taking the offline centric division to the dot com by using the not so explored channels like the social media, search engine optimization and scientific sales and marketing techniques to enhance revenues of barge operators and cruise event management operations. The combination of this blend of techniques comes from the vast experience that Vishal had developed over two decades as sales expert in insurance, advertising agency, aviation industry, tea industry and in the learning and development industry.

As a part of tour development focusing on maritime theme , Vishal , along with Peter and Leonora DeVries (a couple from New Zealand having researched colonial history in India for over seventeen years) developed a land based tour along the banks of the river Hooghly to showcase the colonial heritage of the Portuguese, Danish, Dutch and the French , north of the city of Kolkata erstwhile Calcutta. This tour came to be called the ‘Little Europe in Bengal Tour’. This part of the heritage is significant as it was through the maritime strength of these colonial powers that shaped the modern south east Asia.

With the comprised experience of developing , marketing and selling maritime based products, Vishal is now focused on expanding to new geographical areas to tap the potential through building a network of operators, service providers and bringing together potential customers to experience maritime products through the Crossindia Leisure Cruises Division.

Vishal is also focused on the yachting division as his experience and connects has already helped organizations and corporates to explore the yachting solution along with the technical support that is needed to run the operations.

Andaman Islands remain an essential part of Vishal ad his team’s focus to develop and grow through off shore tour operations and introduction of cruise liners.

Vishal works continuously with operators and investors to develop the potential of the maritime industry together under the Crossindia Leisure Cruise banner and looks forward to connecting with more partners and agencies to bring the boating industry to a whole new level.