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If you are a fan of cocktails and love to get out of your comfort zone, you are probably familiar with Smoked Cocktails. If you are not, here is the scoop: smoke is added to drinks through a variety of methods that adds depth to the flavour of your cocktail. Visit Novotel Goa Dona Sylvia where you can get these awesome specially curate Smoked Cocktails that will light you up on fire. The talented mixologists there will strive their best to provide you with the ultimate Smoked Cocktail experience as the menu stays hyper-fresh with updates every season, but also retains the signature ... Read more

Everyday life can really stress you out, with work, home and social life taking a toll on the body. Sadly, we are rarely able to take time off to allow our bodies to heal, rest and energize. Thankfully, modern wellness therapies target these very stress points and help reset your body, making you ready to take on the world! Most trusted wellness resorts across India have their signature therapies that they’ve perfected over the years. Experienced therapists use their skill and knowledge to relieve you of your pain points and relax the muscles. We list down some of the most ... Read more

The first venue where Champions Boat League (CBL) was hosted consecutively reinforced the winning skills of Tropical Titans, who finished first yet again at Kottappuram backwaters today and remained atop the table with an emphatic total of 98 points after the seventh round. The finals at the 900-metre track near the historical Kodungallur turned out to be a thriller this evening when it ended in a photo-finish for the second and third winners, behind Tropical Titans (3:30.42). It required camera’s assistance for the judges to declare Backwater Knights the runner-up (3:40.01) and Mighty Oars third (3:41.13). A surprising element in ... Read more

Travel Tours, the leisure travel brand of FCM Travel Solutions – Indian subsidiary of Flight Centre Travel Group Australia, has launched their first ever store in Mangaluru to increase their presence in the south markets. This store will be Travel Tours’ 40th such store in India and 6th in Karnataka. The store will be inaugurated by the chief guest M Ravalnath Prabhu. Travel Tours aims to ensure their customers receive life-defining experiences every time they choose to travel with them. As such, the stores are designed to give consumers a convenient access to the best tour packages and options with ... Read more

His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen Máxima have been invited for a state visit to India by President Ram Nath Kovind. The visit took place from 14 October until 18 October. On the fifth and final day of the state visit, the King and Queen cruised the backwaters in Alleppey, on board the Spice Routes Luxury Houseboats. The low-lying area of Alappuzha and Kuttanad were hit by floods in 2018, and during the cruise, the royal couple learned about measures that have been taken to prevent future flooding and discussed on how Dutch knowledge can help. The King ... Read more

This festive season, come to Sayaji Pune and get a tempting tour to the world of aromatic flavours of the age-old traditional Hyderabadi Cuisine that would tingle your taste buds. Hyderabadi delicacies are an amalgamation of Turkish, Mughlai and Arabic influences blended with native Telugu and Maratha culinary traditions. The cuisine represents the princely legacy of the Nizams of Hyderabad. The legacy of authentic Hyderabadi cuisine and its unabridged royal saga of dishes and recipes still continue and Sayaji Pune now brings to you the chance to taste and experience the food of the Nizams. The festival will have Hyderabadi ... Read more

Maldives goes on Guiness World Record for the most people freediving simultaneously, with 520 participants on Tuesday, 1 October 2019. The small island nation renowned for its breathtaking natural beauty and luxury hospitality broke the world record previously held by Italy; ‘La Scuola del Mare 2’ (Verona), in Torri del Benaco, Verona with 280 people. The President of Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih joined the event titled Neyvaa, freediving with the participants including freediving world champion William Trubridge, a double world record holding freediver from New Zealand. Officials from the Guiness World Record declared the achievement as a new world record ... Read more

Some of Jerusalem’s most fascinating architectural treasures will open their doors to the public for the Annual Open House Jerusalem festival, which takes place this year from October 31 – November 2, 2019. As part of the international Open House festival, one weekend a year Jerusalem offers a once in a lifetime access to unseen artistic treasures and private spaces, including designer lofts, urban villas, unique synagogues, architecturally significant public buildings, curious construction sites, plazas and gardens. During the event weekend, the public can visit, explore and attend lectures about these sites. Open House Jerusalem, which began in 2007, was ... Read more

Ever thought of entering a prison and spending a day inside the bars? You don’t have to commit a crime to live inside the bars now. Soon, you will be able to spend a day at Asia’s biggest prison, Tihar. Visitors will be given prison robes, get up early in the morning, do the daily chores including grinding wheat and sleep on the floor. Spread across 400 acres, the most populated prison in India, houses 16,000 prisoners. The 220-year-old Sangareddy prisonnin Telangana has already started ‘feel the jail’ programme in 2016. The heritage jail, which had been converted into a ... Read more

 The 11th edition of the Kerala Travel Mart (KTM) will be held at Kochi in September next year, as India’s largest congregation of tourism industry will see stakeholders across the country and abroad seek new ways to promote business. Announcing the event at a press conference here on Thursday, Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran said KTM 2020 will aim at exploring new markets for Champions Boat League (CBL), adventure tourism and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions) along with finding excellent global buyers. “KTM 2020 will be a four-day event starting on September 24, with two days packed with sessions involving ... Read more

If you have a Schengen visa, you can now apply for Saudi Arabia’s new Tourist e-Visa. Last month, Saudi Arabia launched a Tourist e-Visa, a first for the Kingdom which so far did not allow foreigners to enter simply for tourism purposes. Those eligible for Saudi Arabia’s new Tourist e-Visa included all Schengen Area nationals as well as the USA, Australia, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. However, according to new regulations that were announced last week, the list of who can apply for the new Tourist e-Visa has been extended to include all visa holders of the ... Read more

The 2019 Annual Conference of International Mountain Tourism Alliance is scheduled to be held from 27 to 29 October. The focus of the conference will be on ecology, green, environmental protection, poverty alleviation and innovation. With the theme “Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Mountain Tourism”, focusing on major issues such as ecology, green, environmental protection, poverty alleviation and innovation, the conference will explore a path for the sustainable development of world mountain tourism in a global context. The conference has three key activities: IMTA Council Meeting, Inaugural Ceremony of IMTA Headquarters Building, and Opening ... Read more

Kottappuram, near Kodungallur, will be the new venue for the seventh race of the Champions Boat League (CBL) this weekend, as organisers changed the original plan to hold the October 19 leg at Ponnani in Malappuram district. Citing logistical reasons that have made it extremely difficult for the CBL snake-boats to be brought to upstate Ponnani, the officials informed that the league’s races this Saturday will be held at the Muziris Kottappuram Waterfront that was the venue for the previous leg on October 12. The district of Thrissur thus gets to host two rounds of the pioneering CBL that was ... Read more

Tinder, the world’s most popular app for meeting new people is dedicated to you living your best single life, and they know the city you live in might make a difference. So, they crunched some numbers, pulled some data and did some digging to find the cities in India with one thing in common: the most active community on Tinder. Since they were doing the digging, they also decided to check which cities Swipe Right the most. And the results are in. The first list is the list of cities with the most activity on Tinder (this means they are ... Read more

Popular television couple Sanaya Irani and Mohit Sehgal took some time off to enjoy romantic moments in the Seychelles Islands before the hectic promotions for her movie Ghost. Blessed with pristine beaches and breathtaking natural beauty, Seychelles islands are ideal for those who like less crowded beaches for some private moments together. These stunning Instagram photos and stories showcase their amazing and luxurious stay at a Private island resort Hilton Seychelles Labriz Resort & Spa and Hilton Seychelles Northolme Resort & Spa located in Mahé. Their romantic pictures of floating breakfast in the villa’s private pool, candle light dinner setup ... Read more