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From Last year’s Dasara Festival In order to stimulate the drooping tourism in Mysuru, the State Tourism Department is spending Rs 8 crore for this year’s Dasara. The ministry is spending lavishly for the publicity of the forthcoming Dasara festival. It is expected to attract more tourists, locally, nationally and internationally. “Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and Tourism Minister S R Mahesh have approved the expenditure for the promotional campaigns and we have formulated a detailed project for Dasara promotional activities, aiming at attracting maximum number of tourists,” said B Ramu, Tourism Department Director. From Last year’s Dasara Festival The promotional ... Read more

Jharsuguda airport, Odisha Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha, has expressed optimism that the development of the diverse Odisha tourism products will receive a major stimulus following the functioning of the new commercial airport at Jharsuguda. While speaking on the second edition of the Odisha Travel Bazaar (OTB) 2018, organized by Odisha Tourism and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) last week, Patnaik said the Jharsuguda airport will boost tribal tourism and develop travel and tourism facilities in western Odisha. The airport, named after the freedom fighter Veer Surendra Sai, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra ... Read more

Colombo, Sri Lanka Havas Media India together with their local partner in Sri Lanka, Agxa Pvt. Ltd., has been assigned to handle the digital media promotion activities for Srilanka Tourism. It was announced by the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB). The value of the contract is approximately Rs 30 crores and will be handled out of the agency’s Gurgaon office led by Uday Mohan, Managing Partner – North and East India. The mandate includes social media, mobile and website. Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) is the authoritative government body responsible for handling all marketing and promotional activities related ... Read more

The first edition of Indian Food Festival held at the Tea Garden restaurant in The InterContinental Hotel Jeddah will conclude on October 10, 2018. “The festival will further help strengthen the bonds of ties between India and Saudi Arabia. Indian Cuisine reflects on 8000 years history of various groups and cultures in directing with the Indian Sub continent leading to diversity of flavors and regional cuisines found in Modern day India. Indian Cuisine consists of a wide variety of regional and traditional cuisine native to the Indian subcontinent. These cuisines vary substantially from each other and use locally available spices, ... Read more

Shanghai Tourism Festival 2018, which concluded on Saturday 7th October 2018, saw a record 12.75 million visitors from China and abroad, which is more than five percent from the previous year, as informed by the organizers. The festival witnessed performances by more than 1,300 performers came from 25 countries and regions in the parade held at the opening ceremony of the festival on September 15, 2018. This year the European Union has made its debut float in the parade and received a reward for its special effects. “We hope the float can help attract more Chinese to visit European destinations,” ... Read more

Emirates has won the Aviation 100 ‘Middle East & Africa Airline of the Year’, awarded by Airline Economics magazine. The Aviation 100 awards recognise aviation’s most outstanding performers, as well as the most innovative and successful finance and leasing deals closed in the last 12 months. The awards were held during the Airline Economics Growth Frontiers Dubai 2018 conference gala dinner. Emirates and its financing partners also won ‘Deal of the Year for Innovation’, which resulted from a leasing transaction of five Airbus A380s. Nirmal Govindadas, Senior Vice President Corporate Treasury received both awards on behalf of Emirates earlier this ... Read more

Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the three-day Odisha Travel Bazaar on October 5. Organized by the state tourism department, in association with the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the event will conclude on October 7, 2018. Around 60 foreign tour operators from 23 different countries and several domestic tour operators from across the country, is taking part in the event. This edition of Odisha Travel Bazaar is expected to take Odisha Tourism to international level. “Odisha is all set to host the Hockey World Cup in this November-December with 16 participating teams. This will ... Read more

Wayanad Tourism Organization (WTO), in association with the District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) and the District Administration, organizes a 4×4 jeep rally from Bangalore to Wayanad with the tag line ‘Wayanad Calling’. The objective of the rally is to announce that Wayanad is safe and ready to receive tourists in all respects. The rally has set off from Lalith Ashok Hotel, Kumara Krupa Road, Bangalore on 6th October 2018 at 6:30 AM. There will be 30 jeeps and 25 bikes in the rally. See the photos of the rally here: Off road Jeeps are getting ready to set off from Lalit ... Read more

Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi with Sergey Cheremin, Minister of Moscow Delhi government has signed a twin city agreement with Moscow, Russia, on 5th October 2018, for cooperation tourism, transport, education, culture, healthcare, e-governance and environment. Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and Sergey Cheremin, Minister of Moscow and Head of the Moscow City Department of External Economic and International Relations, has signed the agreements on behalf of the two cities. The agreement is for three years. “The agreement will further strengthen the relationship between the two cities,” said Sisodia while speaking to the media after signing ... Read more

(Photo for representative purpose only) Wayanad, renowned tourism destination in Kerala, popular for its natural scenic beauty and wildlife, is getting back to normal after the disastrous rain and flood. In order propagate the revival of the tourism destination, Wayanad Tourism Organization (WTO), in association with the District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) and the District Administration, organizes a 4×4 jeep rally from Bangalore to Wayanad. The objective of the rally is to announce that Wayanad is safe and ready to receive tourists in all respects.  It was informed by Vancheeswaran, President of WTO, in a press meet on 4th October ... Read more

  Uttarakhand tourism to have tourism projects amounting to about Rs 3,600 crore, which will boost the tourism and hospitality industry of the state. MoUs for the projects were signed in the presence of Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and Tourism and Culture Minister Satpal Maharaj on the Investors Meet held on 4th October 2018. Major MoUs signed include Rs 1885 crore worth project with KK Logistics in rope-way and hospitality sectors, Rs 513 crore MoU with Laser Retreat Private Limited in the hotel business, Rs 275 MoU with Anantraj in rope-way sector. “Tourism is a major contributor to the ... Read more

Abdali, Jordan The Jordan Inbound Tour Operators Association (JITOA) is organizing a cultural walk – ‘Walk Through Time’- on October 13 to commemorate World Tourism Day (WTD). People from the old Jabal Luweibdeh to the modern Abdali district will participate in the event. The event is initiated by Lina Annab, the Tourism minister.  Tourism sector employees and residents of Amman will take part in the walk, in order to boost the walking rout and its exposure to international travellers. Jabal Al Weibdeh, Jordan The new walking route will link modern and traditional parts of the Kingdom’s capital, starting from the ... Read more

Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran has said that the Rs 3 crore development project for the Perumathura beach in Thiruvananthapuram, will be implemented soon. The project features a walkway, ticket counter, children’s park, landscaping, watchtower, parking ground and retaining wall. The minister has announced the same after a review meeting convened in the backdrop of complaints that the project implementation would be affected by the barge construction for the Vizhinjam port project. “The tourism project will be implemented 600 metres away from the barge site. First phase will be completed in ten months. Rs 2.4 crore has been sanctioned to the ... Read more

Goa tourism department is inviting tender for providing comprehensive cleaning services in the beaches of the state, for a period of five years. Cleaning works will include collection, segregation, transportation and disposal of garbage from various beaches. 10th October 2018 is the last date to submit the tender. The previous contract for cleaning given to two Mumbai based contractors has ended up in controversy, alleging multi-crore scams associated in the award. Ram Cleaners and Developers Pvt. Ltd. And Bhumika Clear Tech Services were the companies who got the previous contract in 2016. The Goa tourism department did not have the ... Read more

Antalya, a city in the southern part of Turkey, is emerging as the sought after tourist destination, with foreign tourists surging from all around the world. As per records revealed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkey has hosted 27 million foreign visitors in total from January to August this year. Meanwhile the total number of foreigners visited Antalya alone is 11.4 million, constituting 42.2 per cent of the total tourist arrival in the country during the period and it is 28 per cent more than that of last year. Mostly tourists prefer Antalya for its sunny beaches to ... Read more