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CIVIL AVIATION DGCA asks for clarifications on fare hike from airlines in India In view with the recent fare hike announced by the Indian carriers, the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on February 12 issued a letter to all scheduled domestic airlines asking for information regarding the airfare increase and transparency in airfare advertising. According to the DGCA it has been brought to their notice that all the scheduled domestic airlines had increased their airfares simultaneously in the second week of February, 2009. The DGCA was not aware of the reasons for this simultaneous hike, specifically at a time when the ATF prices, effective February 1, 2009, are at the level that they were in 2005. The airlines had been asked to furnish detailed information regarding the airfare hikes along with detailed justification by February 14, 2009. For more details click here Top
Identifying India as a key future source market outside Europe,
Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions has set its eyes to cultivate
India market with increased co-operation with the travel trade and stepped
up press and PR activities. Speaking of a two pronged strategy to boost
arrivals to and from India, Arjan van Well, director - destination
marketing and markets, NBTC, said, “Our focus would be to enter into
strategic partnership with travel and tourism stakeholders in Holland to
create better scope and opportunities of stronger penetration in our major
source markets as well as potential markets like India. At the same time
we will continue to focus on our core markets in India, i.e. Mumbai and
Delhi but now with increased co-operation and stepped-up effort to create
better awareness of Holland as an attractive destination for leisure as
well as business travellers alike.” Speaking of the NTO’s yet bigger
future plans for India Well said the NTO will go all out with enhanced
focus once these two areas are satisfactorily taken care of. The
destination received approximately 52,000 arrivals from India in 2008
registering a total of about 100,000 room nights.
Likely to be effective from April 2009, Taiwan
has decided to allow Indians to enter the destination without visa, those
who have visas and air/sea tickets to countries including USA, Canada,
Japan, European Community, Australia and New Zealand. Speaking at a
workshop organised by Taiwan Tourism Bureau at Le Meridien Hotel, New
Delhi, Wenchyi Ong, representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre in
New Delhi informed that the objective of the relaxation is to boost Indian
travellers’ visit to Taiwan. Add to this, Taiwan will also strengthen its
awareness programme in India through various ways, including educational
trips for media and travel agents/tour operators. Joseph Cheng, director,
Taiwan Visitors Association/ Taiwan Tourism Bureau informed that in 2008,
Indian visitors to Taiwan were 20,000 and they are expecting 25,000
visitors in 2009.
Macau Government Tourist office (MGTO) won
award for best decorated stalls at TTF&OTM held both in Mumbai and New
Delhi. Travel & Tourism Fair and Outbound Travel Mart (TTF&OTM) was held
in New Delhi from February 12 to14, 2009 at the hotel Ashok and from
February 7 to 9, 2009 at MMRDA Grounds, Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai.
Macau Government Tourist office had a sizeable and remarkable presence at
both the venues of TTF&OTM. MGTO has been participating at TTF&OTM
regularly as it considers Indian market very important for Macau Tourism.
TTF&OTM is India’s only travel mart focussing exclusively on the Indian
tourist. It is an annual show for the travel trade where a large number of
hotels, NTOs, state tourism boards and tour operators cater to cities
travellers.
The government of Andhra Pradesh has decided
to set up ‘Visit Hyderabad Society’ to market Hyderabad as MICE
destination. The society will comprise members from the state government
and private stakeholders. The proposed society would function as one stop
shop for all the requirements of MICE and will have a Hyderabad-centric
approach to promote the city as the MICE destination. The state government
has started the process to constitute ‘Visit Hyderabad Society’ and the
proposed body will soon come into being. The proposed society would be a
permanent body and would have members from the state government, airlines,
convention centres, event management companies and other private sector
stakeholders. The society will prepare business plan to market the city as
a MICE destination.
The government of Orissa has developed an Eco Camp Centre at Ramchandi,
which is likely to be operational within one month. The Orchid Group of
Hotels has been selected to operate the Eco Camp Centre. The Orissa
Tourism Development Corporation has developed this camp on sea, which is
about 8 kms from the famous sun temple Konark. The eco camp has the
facilities of 20 cottages, one restaurant, kitchen, reception and
cafeteria along with pathways, parking space barricading. The project is
first of its kind in the state and is situated right on the sea beach and
Marine drive connecting the two famous tourist sites – Puri and Konark.
The Orchid Group is expected to upgrade the available facilities of the
tents as well as the camps to cater to the needs of high end tourists. |
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