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ASSOCIATION
Subhash Verma, President, ADTOI along with the new Managing Committee to
resume office on April 1, 2011
In line with the
amendments made in the ADTOI Memorandum of Association, for the first time
direct elections were held to fill up the posts of President, Vice
President, General Secretary, Treasurer and Joint Secretary at the
Association of Domestic Tour Operators (ADTOI). The new Managing Committee
shall resume its offices w.e.f. 1st April 2011. As per the results of the
recently held elections, Subhash Verma, has become the President elect. He
was Vice President in the previous Committee. Rajat Sawhney, General
Secretary, Anurag Agarwal and Vineet Gopal, Joint Secretary have been
elected to the same posts for the second term.
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AVIATION
DGCA fails to end commission deadlock between agents and airlines
A year after, DGCA, the
statutory authority governing India’s civil aviation, is still awaiting the
compliance of its March 05, 2010 order on commission by the 16 carriers who
have gone zero. And so is the Kerala High Court. The March 18, 2011, meeting
called by the DGCA of IAAI, the 16 airlines, IATA in the presence of MOCA,
has reportedly failed to end the commission impasse between the Agents and
the 16 airlines.
The airlines have reportedly strongly contested against the payment of
commission stating that they are not obliged to pay commission and the order
of March 5, 2010 from DGCA does not compel them to pay commission. Whereas,
IAAI emphasized that this particular Meeting is only to establish the
‘quantum’ of commission as the court has directed the DGCA to execute the
law within a month and report compliance by April 1.
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Jet to launch 15 new flights from Hyderabad on March 27, connecting it to
Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada, Jaipur and Nagpur
Jet Airways has announced
the launch of fifteen new flights from Hyderabad commencing March 27, 2011
to connect Andhra Pradesh’s capital city to Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada, Jaipur
and Nagpur. In line with this development, the airline will also develop
Hyderabad as its mini hub. This will boost Jet’s connectivity to Tier II and
Tier III cities, and also help it cater to the increased flow of tourist and
business traffic to and from Hyderabad.
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Air France introduces ‘Premium Voyager’, the new premium economy cabin, on
Delhi flights
Following favourable
response to the Premium Voyageur- the new premium economy cabin- on flights
to Mumbai and Bengaluru, Air France will now extend this product on its
Delhi route as well. Located in the foremost section of the aircraft, the
Premium Voyageur cabin offers 40 per cent additional space compared tp
standard economy seats.
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MOT
MOT to train 10,000 semi skilled professionals under 'Hunar Se Rozgar'
programme in 2011
Subodh Kant Sahay, Union
Tourism Minister announced that as part of its initiative to enhance the
skill set of unskilled hospitality professionals, the Ministry of Tourism
thorough its 'Hunar Se Rozgar' programme will train 10,000 such
professionals in 2011. Presenting the National Awards for Excellence in
Hospitality Education in New Delhi he also reiterated his endeavour to take
this initiative to remote and economically backward regions of the country
so that educated youth of these regions get employment opportunities in this
sunrise sector.
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ONLINE PORTALS
Arzoo.com launches mobile recharge facility
for travel agents
Arzoo.com, one of the
leading online travel portal, announced launch of mobile recharge service to
enable stakeholders in travel trade to earn additional revenue streams to
their existing business. Arzoo has tied up with several telecom operators
including Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance, Aircel, BSNL, BPL, TATA Docomo, Uninor
and Virgin Mobile. Any agent can now recharge their customer’s mobile,
according to their specific requirements, without leaving their office.
Agents can directly recharge the mobiles and can make the payment from their
deposits with Arzoo or debit or credit cards.
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STATES
Maharashtra government to develop pilgrim
tourism in different parts of the state with over Rs 180 crore
Maharashtra government has proposed an
outlay of Rs 85crore for the special action plan for the development of
pilgrim centres like Shreekshetra, Dehu, Alandi, Pansharpur and Palkhital.
It is also proposing Rs 55 crore for Shree Gajanan Maharaj and Rs 25 core for Shreeshetra Mjhari. Mahalaxmi temple at Kolhapur also has got Rs 10 crore for
development work.
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Washington State and India Trade Relations Action Committee (WASITRAC)
proposes to develop Shamuka Beach Integrated Tourism Development Project in
Orissa
The Washington State and
India Trade Relations Action Committee (WASITRAC) has recently made a
presentation to the Orissa State officials on the development of Shamuka
Beach Integrated Tourism Dvelopment project in the state. If the state
government agrees, Orissa might become one of the biggest cruising hubs in
India. Furthermore, Port of Seattle has recently signed a sister-port
agreement with Dhamra port for developing sea-trade and cruise activities in
the state.
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