Traffic rights granted to Kingfisher Airlines for seven new international routes
 
Kingfisher Airlines recently announced that it has been granted traffic rights by the Government of India to operate on seven new international routes. The flights on the New Delhi–London–New Delhi and New Delhi–Hong Kong–New Delhi routes will be operated using Airbus A330 while flights on the other routes will be operated using the Airbus A320. The new destinations that have been granted traffic rights from New Delhi are London, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Dubai. Meanwhile, the new destinations from Mumbai are Colombo, Bangkok and Dubai.
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New Air Services Agreement between India and Nepal approved
 
The Government of India has given its approval to the new Air Services Agreement between India and Nepal, which was initiated by the civil aviation authorities of the two countries on September 9, 2009 when air services talks were held between both sides. Both the countries shall now be entitled to designate any number of airlines for operation of mutually agreed services. The designated airlines of each side shall be entitled to operate 30,000 seats per week to/from the points specified in Route I of Section I and Section II with any type of aircraft.
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ITTE 2010 postponed for now, new dates yet to be declared
 
The India Travel Trade Expo (ITTE) 2010, a maiden venture of the Travel Agents Association of India into travel exhibition space, scheduled to be held from February 18 - 20 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, has been postponed. According to Iqbal Mulla, chairman, ITTE 2010 and honorary treasurer, TAAI, new dates, expected in April or July, will be announced soon. Mulla said that the event was postponed as the association did not want the value of the event to be compromised. “And as there are a large numbers of trade shows lined up around this time, we decided to postpone the dates in order to give both buyers and sellers breathing space. The decision in this regard was taken in consultation with the stakeholders, who also saw merit in our decision", he added.

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Yatra.com ties up with Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation
 
Yatra.com recently entered into a strategic tie-up with Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (HPTDC) to offer state guest houses to travellers. As per the tie-up, guest houses in tourist destinations such as Shimla, Chail, Fagu, Narkanda, Barog, Parwanoo, Manali, Dharamshala, Khajjair, Dalhousie and Renukaji can now be booked exclusively through Yatra.com at attractive prices starting at Rs 1100 per room night. There are over forty government guest houses in Himachal Pradesh and they can be booked by logging on to yatra.com or by simply calling the customer care. Customers can also visit the holiday lounges, which are premium retail outlets of yatra.com for bookings.
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Carlson Wagonlit Travel selects Galileo as its new GDS partner in India
 
Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) and Travelport have confirmed that they are on track to completing a large-scale migration of CWT India’s GDS business to the Galileo platform. The conversion from CWT India’s current GDS provider to Travelport’s Galileo system marks an extension of the long-standing relationship between the two international organisations who already work closely in numerous other business travel markets across the globe. The Galileo platform was selected as the new GDS for CWT India as part of a wider, business re-engineering initiative aimed at increasing productivity through CWT’s 200 points of sale across the country.
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South African Tourism to organise training programmes for travel agents
 
With an aim to increase product (South Africa) knowledge of frontline staff of travel companies, South African Tourism will organise training sessions at 12 cities in India. Scheduled to be started in the third week of March, the training programmes will be held throughout the year 2010 in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Nagpur, Surat and Pune. According to Medha Sampat, country manager (India), South African Tourism, the training programmes will also enhance knowledge of provinces in South Africa including unique selling points of each province.
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