India is extending the e-Tourist Visa scheme to 31 more countries. With this, the total number of countries under the scheme will go upto 76.“This facility is being extended to 31 more countries from May 01, 2015. The new countries included in e-Tourist Visa scheme…

Travel agents and tour operators across India have battled several roadblocks and come out winners when it comes to attracting, and consequently serving, the international clientele. Lack of infrastructure, cleanliness and hygiene issues, safety worries, absence of tourist facilities at popular sites and so on…

The world over, businessmen are looking for the next growth drivers. The emerging economies such as BRICS have been the most talked about economies to serve as the big growth boosters. Likewise, the travel Industry in India is keen to identify the key emerging markets…

The Indian tourism and hospitality industry has emerged as the largest service sector in India. India sees the 11th largest tourist inflow in the Asia-Pacific region and the 42nd worldwide, according to India Tourism Statistics 2013. Its tourism industry is flourishing due to an increase…

Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State for Culture (I/C), Tourism (I/C) and Civil Aviation was on a two day visit to the North -East. He was accompanied by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju and senior officials of the Ministry of Tourism, Government…

Two Indian companies, both from Maharashtra state, have been recognised as winners at the World Responsible Tourism Awards 2015 organised by Responsible Travel at World Travel Market London.The only Indian representatives in a list of 37 finalists across 13 categories, Agri Tourism Development Company based…

According to the Ministry of Tourism, Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) during the Month of October 2015 were 6.80 lakh as compared to FTAs of 6.68 lakh during the month of October 2014 and 5.98 lakh in October 2013. There has been a growth of 1.7…

Imagine when the entire world is going out of way to woo the world’s largest tourism source market, ie., China; India, despite announcing 2015 to be ‘Visit India Year in China’ and then forgetting about it, shows amply the malaise that has come ail India’s…

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its approval for signing a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Tourism of India and the Ministry of Trade Industry and Tourism of Colombia for strengthening cooperation in the field of Tourism.The…

Vinod Zutshi, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism headed the Indian delegation at World Travel Market in London said that India is aiming to attract one million UK visitors by 2020 through a number of key pro-active initiatives. The Secretary announced that many of the new initiatives…