India’s inbound tourism strategy needs to be tailored to the leisure segment, business travel, medical and adventure tourism and domestic tourism should be targeted at the middle age segment (35-50 years) to cash in on the rising disposal incomes and increased propensity to travel, a…

The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, in collaboration with the Government of Andhra Pradesh is hosting the 25th Joint Commission Meeting of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Commission for East Asia and Pacific and the UNWTO Commission for South Asia in Hyderabad…

Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi recently launched a web based Public Service Delivery System for hotel approvals and classification with a view to bring in transparency in granting approvals for hotel projects and classification status to functioning hotels.Speaking on the occasion Chiranjeevi said that with…

Giving a mega boost to the tourism in Maharashtra, the Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India has given its approval to two mega circuits viz. Solapur- Pandharpur – Akkalkot – Tuljapur mega circuit and Aurangabad mega circuit. These proposals were sent to the central ministry,…

Foreign tourists inflow into India have registered a significant drop of 25 per cent in the last three months that too in the busy tourists season after unfortunate rape incidents reported internally in India, according to quick random survey undertaken by ASSOCHAM Social Development Foundation…

Union Tourism Minister K. Chiranjeevi called on Union Finance Minister P. Chidambram and urged him for higher budgetary allocation for Tourism Ministry. Chiranjeevi told the Finance Minister that the tourism sector directly and indirectly contributes to more than six per cent of the GDP of…

India’s national carrier Air India is poised for a significant network growth once the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is permitted to return to the air. The carrier’s operations have, like all existing customers of the Dreamliner, been significantly disrupted over the past couple of months following…

The Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned a Mega Project for ‘Development of Tourism Infrastructure at Hampi World Heritage Site in Karnataka’. The Ministry has released Rs.26.27 crore for this project.The State Government of Karnataka has submitted another proposal for Development of Tourism Infrastructure at the…

Rewarding stakeholders for their contribution in the growth of the tourism sector, the Ministry of Tourism (MoT) presented National Tourism Awards for the year 2011-12 yesterday in New Delhi. The awards were given by President Pranab Mukherjee. While Andhra Pradesh has bagged the best state…

Gujarat Tourism has bagged three National Tourism Awards for best tourism film, innovative use of information and technology and one of the best States for comprehensive development of tourism in the country.Gujarat Government’s star tourism campaign, “Khushboo Gujarat Ki” featuring megastar Amitabh Bachchan was awarded…