Ranakpur, a region traditionally known for its Jain temple and religious tourism, is now gaining attention for its growing relevance in the wildlife tourism sector. The area and its surroundings-including Bera, Jawai, and Kumbhalgarh-have seen a steady rise in visitors seeking leopard safaris, bird watching, and other nature-based experiences.
Leopard sightings in the wild have become increasingly common in the areas surrounding Ranakpur. Villages such as Sena and Chhoda are frequently included in jeep safari routes, with local operators confirming consistent leopard movements, especially during early mornings and evenings.
Nearby Jawai, around 50 kilometers from Ranakpur, has already built a reputation as a leopard habitat. The terrain allows leopards and humans to coexist, and the tourism model in this area has drawn interest from wildlife researchers and conservationists. Birdlife is also notable in the region, with species such as painted storks, kingfishers, peafowls, and various migratory birds regularly spotted near water bodies and forested patches.
Discussions around the expansion of wildlife zones in Rajasthan-including the recent notification of Ramgarh Vishdhari as a tiger reserve-have added further momentum to this trend. Although Ranakpur is not part of the core tiger zone, its proximity to several protected and buffer areas places it within a wider eco-tourism corridor that includes Kumbhalgarh, Sita Mata, and Mount Abu.
In parallel to these developments, Mana Hotels, a hospitality company operating in Ranakpur, is exploring the creation of an adventure tourism zone near the Ranakpur Jain Temple. The proposal includes activities such as trekking, mountain biking, zip lining, and rock climbing. The aim is to create structured outdoor recreation options while preserving the natural topography and involving the local community in both development and operations.
With improved road access, consistent leopard sightings, and early-stage infrastructure development, Ranakpur appears positioned to expand beyond religious tourism into the broader segments of wildlife and adventure tourism.

Mana Hotels

Plot 4677

Ranakpur

Pali

Rajasthan 306702

Dheeraj Jain

9001999465

djain@sheevam.in

Mana Hotels is a venture of Sheevam Group of Companies (www.sheevam.in). Our goal is to set up budget boutique hotels in locations that offer something unique. Our young management aims to provide offbeat experiences that redefine luxury.

Mana Hotels has strong design philosophy and we believe in a democratic method of design. As in politics, a democratic design is one that is for the user and by the user. We achieve this by interacting with the user during design phase of our hotels and incorporating elements that are influenced or inspired by the intended user.

Mana Hotels is fully committed to being environmentally and socially conscious. We follow sustainable practices, use energy efficient designs and are adaptable during the construction phase to ensure that we fulfill our responsibility towards the environment. We believe in creating ventures that generate employment for the local communities and have vowed to have at least 50% of the work force from the local areas in the future as well!

Mana at Ranakpur is a 49 room boutique resort spread over an area of 3.5 acres on the banks of a seasonal river. Surrounded by the majestic Aravallis, it is an oasis in the desert state of Rajasthan located just 90 km from Udaipur. The Ranakpur Jain Temple & Kumbhalgarh Fort are the primary tourist attractions located in the vicinity of the best hotel in Ranakpur. From history to adventure and religion to leisure, Ranakpur offers experiences for one and all. Thanks to the efforts of our team, we have won countless awards for our service and design making us one of the best resorts in Rajasthan for leisure, weddings & corporate travel.

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Before she ran global marketing teams, before she sat in boardrooms or rewrote travel strategy, Liz Glover sang.

She didn’t grow up dreaming of marketing budgets or brand strategy (few do). She sang with Opera Australia’s children’s chorus. She danced. And somewhere between piano lessons and choir rehearsals, something clicked.

“I never really felt at home in high school,” she says. “But when I joined the choir, I felt like I had found my people.”

There is a point in every life where something catches. For Glover, that early immersion in the arts lit a fuse. It taught her how to show up, how to keep time, and how to stand quietly in herself, even when the spotlight hit somewhere else.

The long game and the lens

Glover has never claimed to have a five-year plan. “I never ever knew what I wanted to be when I grew up,” she says. “And sometimes I still think I don’t know.” But she has always known how to move forward. To trust momentum. To recognise meaning when it knocks. And to keep saying yes to the work that stirs something real.

“Play the long game,” she says. “Work hard. Be kind. Stay curious. Don’t worry about being interesting. Be interested. You won’t always know where it’s leading, but every job, every conversation, every choice adds something to the picture.”

Today, as Head of Marketing at Adventure World, Glover sits at the intersection of passion and purpose. Her career has spanned arts, sponsorship, media marketing, and global travel brands, but through every role runs a single thread: hope. Not the naive kind, but the determined kind. The kind that roots deep, holds fast, and grows through concrete. It doesn’t wait for applause. It survives. It insists.

“We have to have hope,” she says. “Hope that the work matters, that we’re not just selling the world, but helping protect it. If we don’t have that, we don’t have a career.”

Hope, and hustle

Her first job was as a secretary at the Australian Ballet. She got the role because someone who knew someone knew she was looking. But people saw something in her. You don’t go from a secretary to managing the marketing of one of the biggest broadsheets in the country without something you can’t quite name but never miss. She has it. The click-in-your-gut certainty. The kind of presence that earns its own space.

“I’m a hard worker,” she says simply. “I’m very self-disciplined. And I deliver.”

It’s a work ethic she credits in part to her father, a ten-pound Pom who built one of the country’s first computer exhibitions with little but sheer will.

“I’m very like him,” she says. “Disciplined, dedicated.”

Cracks and clarity

She didn’t fall in love with marketing in a classroom. It happened in the real world, in late nights, impossible deadlines, and the sometimes brutal, satisfying clarity of building something from scratch. But it wasn’t until a trip through Africa that something in her shifted. Kilimanjaro loomed. The air was thin. The scale of the world pressed in and expanded all at once. There was red dust and silence and a thousand untranslatable things she didn’t want to leave behind. A world alive with beauty and contradiction.

It cracked something open.

She came back changed. Travel wasn’t leisure. It was perspective. Power. A reminder that the world isn’t a product. It’s a privilege. And maybe, just maybe, something worth protecting.

Choosing challenge over comfort

Glover found a job for Scenic, but the post was well past the deadline. Most people would scroll past. Glover applied anyway. And she got the job.

Call it audacity. Call it instinct. But mostly, it was preparation meeting boldness. A habit of showing up for what might happen if you do. That’s Glover. She shows up. She delivers. She plays the long game.
From Scenic to Silversea to Adventure World, Glover has built a career not just on brand growth, but on values. She doesn’t sugarcoat the challenges. She’s worked through cruise crises and corporate restructures. She’s had jobs that didn’t feed her soul, and learned from them anyway.

“Even when a job doesn’t light you up, there’s always something to take from it,” she says.

When News Corp invited her back as General Manager of Travel, a friend told her to treat it like a master’s degree, a sharp challenge with lessons built in.

“And I did,” she says. “I learned so much. I worked on a major e-commerce project. I had one of the best managers of my life, someone who showed me what it means to really protect and support a team.”

It became a reminder: even the wrong job can be the right teacher.

Adventure World, though, felt different. At an industry function, she heard Managing Director Neil Rodgers speak.

“That was it for me,” Glover says. “I knew that is what I wanted to do. This was the brand, and the leader, for me.”

Doing the work that matters

Now she’s part of a brand that walks its talk. One that builds community-based tourism that redefines what travel can be.

Even when the headlines scream otherwise, Glover insists: there is still so much hope.

“It is easy to get lost in the despair. But there are all these amazingly beautiful stories of what people are doing, consistently, in their lives, in their businesses, and in travel. I try not to get stuck in that black hole. I put a lens on it. You have to have perspective.”

“You have to look beyond the noise. The stories are out there. But we have to choose to see them.”

In an industry that can too easily commodify people and places, she’s not afraid to ask the hard questions. “We want to grow,” she says. “But we can’t grow at any cost.”

It’s not a line you often hear in the travel trade. But maybe it should be. Maybe what the industry needs now isn’t another performance of progress, but a return to something real. Something honest. Something hopeful.

Like a woman who never knew what she wanted to be when she grew up but followed the music anyway. And found her people.

Published on
August 10, 2025 |