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AGENTS
Travelocity India launches domestic flight booking engine
Travelocity India, one among the leading
players in the online travel space in India, launched a search engine of
domestic flights on 7 January 2011. The new domestic flight booking engine
(available at www.travelocity.co.in) will display the lowest fare available
at a given time integrating results displayed by the airlines and other OTAs
on a user friendly format. In the second phase, latter in 2011, the company
will integrate the interests of travel agents, who then could also be
rewarded for using the said booking engine.
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Travelchacha.com expands in southern India with a new office in Kochi
Travelchacha.com, one of
leading online travel company in India, announced expansion beyond Delhi,
Agra and Goa with a new office in Southern India. It opened its new office
in Kochi, Kerala. Going forward, Travelchacha.com expects the Kerala market
to double its share in the company’s total revenue, which currently stands
at 10 per cent.
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ASSOCIATIONS
Vikram Madhok appointed as Vice Chairman of WTTCII for the year 2011
The World Travel and
Tourism Council, India Initiative (WTTCII), announced appointment of Vikram
Madhok, Managing Director, Abercrombie & Kent India as Vice Chairman of the
council for the year 2011. It had earlier appointed Vivek Nair, Vice
Chairman and Managing Director, The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts as the
Chairperson of the Council for the year 2011 at the Annual General Meeting
held in New Delhi on 11 December. Further, Sujit Banerjee, Former Secretary,
Ministry of Tourism, has taken over as the Secretary General of the council.
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HOTELS
Carlson to expand its portfolio with 19 new properties in 2011 in India
International hospitality
player Carlson which operates luxury chain Radisson is rolling out plans to
introduce 19 new properties in India this year with plans to operate 100
hotels by 2015. It is focusing on Delhi, Mumbai (two properties) and
Coimbatore (one property) for the new projects. However, the investment
details were kept under covers.
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STATE
Himachal Pradesh records 16% growth with over 13 million tourists in
2010
As per the latest figures
released by Himachal Pradesh tourism board, over 13 million tourists visited
the state in 2010 as compared to 11 million in 2009; thus recording a growth
of 16 per cent. Similarly, the foreign tourist arrival figures increased
from 4,00,583 in 2009 to 454,851 in 2010 registering an increase of 13 per
cent in a year.
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J&K Tourism to incentivise local trade for participating in trade fares and
exhibitions
Jammu & Kashmir Tourism is
currently working out a scheme that will provide financial assistance to
local travel trade who will participate in domestic and international trade
fairs and exhibitions to promote the destination, informed Farooq Shah,
Director Tourism, Kashmir. The new scheme is expected to be in force in the
new financial year. Aimed at revitalising state’s economic mainstay tourism
sector the scheme is expected to lure state’s tourism trade to available
subsidies and aggressively market their tourism products.
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NTO
Switzerland Tourism to spend additional 35% to boost
arrivals from India
Switzerland Tourism, at
its media workshop in Delhi earlier this week, introduced two new regions as
partners - Ticino, the Italian speaking region in the South of Switzerland
which has a Mediterranean lifestyle with Swiss quality and the French
speaking Lake Geneva Region parts of which is known as the Swiss Riviera.
Together with theses new destinations, Switzerland is planning to spend an
additional 35 per cent towards marketing expenditure to boost growth from
the India market.
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