Kerala Tourism’s ‘Project Muziris’ has been chosen the Best Innovative Tourism Project at the Global Star Awards 2018. Noushad P M, Managing Director of the Muziris Projects has received the prominent award at the event held in New Delhi recently. Project Muziris was picked for…

Rajasthan was poised to take back the space of the country's leading tourism hub in the country with the state witnessing a "huge energy" in the sector, Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said. The target of 50 million tourist arrivals by 2020 to Rajasthan would be…

Ramu B has been appointed as the director of the Karnataka state tourism department. The 2010-batch IAS officer Ramu had earlier served as the District Collector in Chamarajanagar. He said his priority in the new role would be to improve the marketing of Karnataka tourism.…

YES BANK partnered FICCI for The Great Indian Travel Bazaar’18 held in Jaipur recently. The event witnessed the release of YES BANK – FICCI joint report on Inbound Tourism titled, ‘Inbound Tourism – Decoding Strategies for Next Stage of Growth’ which outlines policy interventions to…

The Department of Tourism, Government of Rajasthan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federation of Hospitality and Tourism of Rajasthan (FHTR) for organizing the ‘Rajasthan Domestic Travel Mart’ 2018 from July 20-22 at the B.M. Birla Auditorium in Jaipur. The Department of…

Madhya Pradesh is an attractive destination from investment point of view and the government has taken multiple initiatives to make the state an investment friendly destination. Madhya Pradesh as a state has good amount of land parcels and heritage properties for private investments which is…

Tourist arrivals to Kerala have registered a significant growth of 10.93 percent during the year 2017, compared with the figures of the previous year. According to statistics compiled by Kerala Tourism, Kerala saw as many as 15.54 lakh new tourists – domestic and foreign travelers…

Mormugao Port Trust and Drishti Marine’s ambitious inland ferry services was inaugurated recently by Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation in the port city of Vasco in Goa. The inaugural plaque was unveiled…

Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) is conducting 12 days guide training programme in Nagpur to train the local tourist guides. The inauguration of certified guide training programme was conducted at MTDC’s Regional office in Nagpur by Swati Kale, General Manager, MTDC in the presence of…

Airbnb has signed MoUs with the North Eastern Council (NEC), the North East Tourism Development Council (NETDC) and two key livelihood initiatives, North East Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) and North Eastern Region Community Resource Management Society (NERCRMS), with the aim of creating hospitality micro-entrepreneurs across…