India’s first conference on travel technology got underway today with a call to tourism and allied businesses to utilise social media, the blog world and digital apps for marketing their services to the new, tech-savvy global traveller. Social media and online marketing were the focus of today’s discussions at the
Honourable Chief Minister Shri. Oommen Chandy urged young entrepreneurs with small, start-up businesses in the travel and tourism sector to take advantage of digital technology which is opening up vast global markets that were once unreachable through traditional marketing tools. Inaugurating the country’s first International Conference on Travel Technology (ICTT),
Kerala Chief Minister of Kerala Shri Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the first-of-its-kind international meet on travel technology on June 7, 2013, aimed at helping the country’s tourism sector take advantage of the huge marketing potential of the web and social media. More than 400 delegates from around the country and
Kerala, the southern-most state of India for the first time is organizing an international conference on travel technology in the country. The organizing committee, Association of Travel Trade Organizations, India (ATTOI), has decided to hold this first-of-its-kind travel and technology conference in India. This International Conference on Travel Technology (ICTT)
Including the increase in cruise, boutique and family hotels Luxury travel buyers and agents from across the Asia Pacific will meet at the 7th edition of International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM) Asia in Shanghai in June to view almost 500 of the latest travel experiences from 70 countries across the
The National Tourism Awards, India has been announced in New Delhi today. Andhra Pradesh has bagged the Best State Award for comprehensive development of tourism in the rest of India category of National Tourism Award 2011-12. The Best Heritage city award has gone to Warangal (Andhra Pradesh). Amritsar (Punjab) Heritage
Glamping in Asia – The Luxe Camping When an average guy sets up a tent under the stars and prepares to rough it out in Nature’s lap, it is called camping. But when the same camp is lined with luxury and the guy looks at Nature through rose-coloured glasses with
Union Tourism Minister of India Shri K. Chiranjeevi met the Union Home Minister Sri Sushilkumar Shinde today and submitted a proposal to extend Visa-on-arrivals to 16 more countries. The Ministry of Tourism strongly felt that the “Tourist Visa – on – Arrival (TVOA)” facility for those countries, which are potential
Mexico Tourism Board in collaboration with Travel + Leisure India & South Asia and The Leela Mumbai, India, together organises an event at the Leela Mumbai on February 11, 2013. The aim of this event is to jointly increasing the inbound Indian tourism to Mexico by educating the traders and
Australia’s overseas arrivals have continued to grow strongly through the end of the year, recording seven per cent growth in December 2012 to reach 6.1 million visitors in 2012. In 2012, the number of international visitor increased by 270,500 – an increase of almost five per cent on 2011 arrivals.