City & State New York: The 2021 Responsible 100
December 13, 2021 12:00 PM
Vijay Dandapani
President and CEO, Hotel Association of New York City
Job description
The primary goal is to enhance the footprint of the hotel industry as a principal stakeholder in New York City.
Defining social responsibility
Social responsibility is the ability to be a part of an ecosystem that fosters and engenders social equity. I achieve it by enabling the growth of the industry, an industry that is singularly responsible for the most middle-class jobs in New York City’s private sector where there is not only continuity of employment, barring the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic, but also an opportunity for the next generation of employees to advance up the socioeconomic ladder due to its emphasis on work ethics and initiatives without necessitating a college degree.
Best advice
Rudyard Kipling’s saying about success and failure: to treat them both as impostors.