In an attempt to promote Mauritius as a golf destination in India, Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority (MTPA) recently organised ‘Mauritius Tourism Invitational Golf Tournaments’ in three metro cities of India, namely: Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi NCR. MTPA organised this tournament in collaboration with IGTA, MGTA…

After a successful outdoor campaign in India, Taiwan Tourism Bureau (TTB) has decided to launch its online campaign for destination marketing and promotion in India. “We did a lot of outdoor campaign at airports, shopping malls, highways and movie theatres after the announcement of our…

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has adopted a simplified ‘A-B-C Strategy’ to promote emerging tourist destinations by creating inter-linked, theme-related travel routes that it says better distribute visitor flows nationwide. Tanes Petsuwan, Deputy Governor, Marketing Communications, TAT said, “This year’s TTM+ 2019 is being…

Thomas Cook India recently brought 650 Indian visitors to Ireland. The visiting groups represented key travel segment of MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Events) and are made up of top performing senior business executives, who travel to a different overseas destinations each year, as a…

BLS International Services Limited (BLS) reported net profit of Rs. 105.17 crore for FY19, up by 8.94 per cent as compared to Rs. 96.53 crore in the corresponding quarter of last fiscal. The company’s FY19 PAT margin stood at 12.43 per cent which was 12.17…

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has presented a series of awards : PATA Life Membership, PATA Chairperson’s Award, PATA Face of the Future Award and a PATA Honorary Membership Award --to several individuals in recognition for their contributions to the responsible development of travel…

Thailand’s B2B travel trade show, Thailand Travel Mart Plus Amazing Gateway to the Greater Mekong Subregion (TTM+) 2019 will take place in Pattaya from June 5-7, 2019. Under the theme of “New Shades of Emerging Destinations”, the TTM+ 2019 has attracted 351 buyers, 371 sellers,…

The Israel Ministry of Tourism has appointed Sammy Yahia as Director of Tourism for India and Philippines, effective June 3, 2019. Prior to his appointment to India, Sammy was the Director of Marketing & Communications for Israel Ministry of Tourism from 2012 to May 2019.…

Hong Kong had registered a growth of 7.3 per cent from India. Close to 83,000 Indian visitors arrived into Hong Kong in Q1 2019. While Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru continue top three source markets; there is a growing demand from Ahmedabad, Cochin and Pune. In…

Croatia was unanimously chosen to host the annual meeting of the tourism ministers of UNWTO Member States in Europe. The country is one of the region’s tourism destinations, welcoming 20 million international arrivals in 2018, a 6.7 per cent increase on the previous year. A…