With the start of the school summer vacation period in India, overnight air arrivals from that segment soared by 21 per cent in May 2019, which propelled India as the 4th largest long-haul inbound market that month. Year-to-date growth for May 2019 for India at…

Ebix announced that India Post has unveiled a corporate customized stamp to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Ebix’s foreign exchange, remittances, payment solutions Indian subsidiary company - EbixCash World Money. The release of the stamp is a celebration of the company’s commitment to expand its…

Travelport announces the development of a blockchain solution to enhance the hotel commission reconciliation process. Working with IBM Services and BCD Travel as well as a number of high-profile hotel chains, the blockchain technology solution aims to optimize hotel commission processing on a distributed ledger…

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has begun using the online tourism management system ‘Local Kit’, as part of its ongoing efforts to enhance the quality of and add value to community-based tourism in Thailand. Local Kit (localkit.app) is a web application from Find Folk…

The one-day National Conference of Tourism Ministers concluded successfully in New Delhi yesterday. Organized by the Union Ministry of Tourism, it was inaugurated by Prahlad Singh Patel, Union Minister of State for Tourism & Culture (I/C). The conference was attended by State Tourism Ministers of…

Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (I/C) for Civil Aviation, Housing & Urban Affairs, chaired a meeting via Video Conference on Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS-UDAN) with Chief Ministers, State Chief Secretaries/Advisors of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Daman…

Prahlad Singh Patel, Minister of State for Tourism & Culture (I/C) today inaugurated the State Tourism Ministers’ Conference in New Delhi. The daylong Conference has been organized by the Union Ministry of Tourism and being attended by state Tourism Ministers, Secretaries of Tourism and senior…

Giving a boost to its global image of being most frequented tourist destination, UNWTO recently announced that Turkey was the 6th most visited destination in the world in the year 2018 with 46 million visitors. The UNWTO’s travel arm has released its latest figures detailing…

Cinnamon’s Bring A Friend Home (BAFH) introduces an exclusive initiative to spearhead tourism in Sri Lanka and also to overcome challenges faced by the tourism industry. BAFH encourages fellow Sri Lankans living here and overseas as well as expats living in Sri Lanka to nominate…

Scoot, the low-cost arm of Singapore Airlines, has become a member of the IATA Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) under the prefix 668. The BSP Payment is available to partner agents on major Global Distribution Systems (GDSs), including Abacus, Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre, and Worldspan. Today,…

Vietjet has unveiled plans to launch direct flights from Ho Chi Minh (Saigon) and Hanoi to New Delhi, India. Vietjet will operate the Saigon – New Delhi flights four times per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays starting from December 6, 2019. The flights…

With a substantial 20 per cent increase in Indian arrivals in the first five months of this year, Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is aiming to welcome two million Indians in 2019. This was informed by Charun Ohnmee, Deputy Governor for Policy and Planning, TAT…

Thailand – based Akaryn Hotel Group is expecting a good growth from India market. “India is very important to us, as it is one of the few markets that is currently developing and expanding with a growing middle class and more spending power. I see…

SATTE, South Asia’s largest travel trade expo recently organised a networking evening at Le Meridien, New Delhi. The glitzy evening was organised to offer gratitude to the travel trade of New Delhi for their consistent support to the exhibition. The evening was attended by over…

Hahn Air has unveiled its new NDC platform. The company is extending its suite of products for partner airlines and travel agencies with a solution powered by IATA’s New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard. To mark the occasion, the German airline and ticketing expert welcomed the…