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Delhi Police to issue license to hotels for possessing arms
Speaking at a recently organised panel
discussion on ‘Impact of Global Meltdown and Terrorism: India Tourism
Fights Back’ by FICCI, Sujit Banerjee, secretary, ministry of tourism,
Government of India talked about the prospect of the much-awaited request
from hotel industry to be considered for infrastructure status finally
seeing the light of the day. According to Banerjee the union ministry of
tourism has strongly pitched for the infrastructure status for hotel
Industry with the various government departments including Ministry of
Finance and Reserve Bank of India. The infrastructure status if
materialised may come with a rider. Hotel industry may get the much
awaited status in line with hospitals, ie, only the corporates involved in
hotel development may be considered for the status and if developed by
real estate developers may not be considered for the same. Whereas if
hotel development, by real estate developers is handed over to hotel
development companies then such development may well fall under
Infrastructure status. A final picture on the same is only expected to
emerge when the new budget is presented by the government.
The ministry of tourism has launched a global
print / television and Internet campaign in the New Year that successfully
helps Incredible India walk the tightrope - projecting itself as
welcoming, hospitable and self-assertive. The countries targeted through
print campaigns are USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, UK, France, Germany,
Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia,
China, Korea, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan. The International
Television commercial captures the diversity of Indian tourism products.
This commercial attempts to establish a connection with viewers through
treatment of emotions, humour and sheer awe. To bring in this connection
there is a protagonist who recalls his travels through the country. The
ministry of tourism is also launching an online media campaign on the
internet. This campaign will be very comprehensive covering major portals
/ websites across the leading tourism generation markets for India.
MTDC will promote eco-tourism in the Vidharba region of Maharashtra. This effort by Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) has come through because Vidarbha may prove to be a great attraction for tourists and there is a vast scope for expansion of forest tourism, jungle safari, jungle trekking, trekking and nature trail. Various projects planned are in district Nagpur with investment of Rs. 15.34 crore, district Gondia Rs. 14.47 crore, district Chandrapur and Gadchiroli Rs. 9.80 crore and district Amaravati and Akola Rs. 8.11 crore. For more details click here Top Sikkim to get its first Greenfield airport in Pakyong in two years Punj Lloyd Group announced the building of Sikkim’s first Greenfield airport. This airport will be constructed in Pakyong. The new airport will make a significant contribution to the tourism infrastructure of the state. Awarded by Airports Authority of India (AAI), this contract is valued at Rs 264 crore and is scheduled for completion in 24 months. The scope of work will include construction of 30 m wide runway of 1.7 km length, taxiway, apron drainage system and electrical work for the airport. For more details click here Top MP Tourism launches mobile exhibition bus to woo domestic tourists Shivraj Singh Chouhan, chief minister, Madhya Pradesh recently dedicated to the people a mobile exhibition bus of Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation. The chief minister flagged off the bus which left for Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. The Tourism Development Corporation has designed keeping in view the interest of domestic tourism the bus which would tour within as well as outside the state to attract domestic tourists to Madhya Pradesh. It has an air conditioned lounge where tourists may gather and hold discussions about tourist places. The bus would first reach Lucknow crossing different cities of Uttar Pradesh where information about tourism in Madhya Pradesh would be provided. The bus would also visit fair and festival sites. For more details click here Top Ambika Soni, Ashok Gehlot and Naranbhai J. Rathwa flags off luxury train on Jan 11, 2009 ‘Royal Rajasthan on Wheels’, a new luxury train under Joint Venture arrangement between Indian Railways and Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC), was launched on January 11. This new luxury train was flagged off from Safdarjung Railway Station, New Delhi in the presence of Union minister for tourism, Ambika Soni, the chief minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot, the minister of state for Railways, Naranbhai J. Rathwa and other dignitaries. The Indian Railways in association with RTDC has already been jointly operating the Palace on Wheels Luxury Tourist Train since 1982. The new luxury tourist train will follow the same itinerary as that of Palace on Wheels i.e. Delhi-Jaipur-Jaisalmer-Jodhpur-Sawai-Madhopur-Chittogarh-Udaipur-Bharatpur-Agra-Delhi. However, the new luxury tourist train will be an advanced version of Palace on Wheels as huge efforts has been made to take care of many of the suggestions made by the tourists over the years as well as by making use of the experience gained over the years. For more details click here Top |
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