Melbourne has been named The World's Most Liveable City for the seventh consecutive year by the annual Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Global Liveability Index. The EIU’s Liveability Ranking assesses living conditions in 140 cities across the globe by assigning a rating across five broad categories,…

Dubai Business Events (DBE), the city’s official convention bureau, has reported strong results for the first half of 2017, with 97 bids submitted to host business events being successfully awarded to the city. The events secured since January, including conferences, exhibitions, meetings and incentive trips,…

In a recent effort to increase visitor footfalls from India, Fiji organised a six city roadshow in India. The roadshow kicked off in Mumbai and continued in Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Chennai and concluded in Benglauru. In the first half of 2017, the destination has witnessed…

Indonesia Tourism has witnessed a growth of 21 per cent from the India market in 2016. From January to May 2017, the destination has already welcomed around 200,000 travellers from India. With this growth, India has now become the sixth largest source market displacing South…

Qatar’s Ministry of Interior, Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) and Qatar Airways have announced that Qatar will allow visa-free entry for citizens of 80 countries, effective immediately. Citizens of those countries wishing to visit Qatar will no longer need to apply or pay for a visa.…

BLS International Services Limited (BLS), a specialist provider of Visa, Passport, Attestation and Citizen Services to the Governments across the world, declared its financial results for the first quarter ended June 30th, 2017. The company reported Net Profit of Rs. 29.06 crore for Q1 FY18,…

Spain registered 105,646 Indian arrivals in 2016, an increment of 17.08 per cent over the previous year. In this way, for the first time it has surpassed the number of 100,000 tourists coming from India. The latest official data indicates that 105,646 Indian tourists travelled…

Noted destination promotion company Trac Representations has the won bid from Maldives Marketing & PR Corporation (MMPRC), the national tourism office of Maldives, to represent the destination in Indian market. As per the mandate, Trac will be implementing marketing and public relations campaigns to position…

Dubai has received a record total of 8.06 million international overnight tourists during the first six months of 2017, reflecting a stellar 10.6 per cent increase over the same period last year. Figures released by Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) affirm…

The longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the world was officially opened in Switzerland recently. The steel bridge, which connects two sections of a walking trail between Grächen and Zermatt in the south of the country, was unveiled after a construction period of just ten weeks.…