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AIRLINES
AirAsia launches Mumbai-Kuala Lumpur services at Re 1
AirAsia launched
direct operations from Mumbai to Kuala Lumpur on May 6, 2010 at an inaugural
price of Re 1 per ticket. Apart from airport taxes, fliers will have to pay
Re 1 as base fare. This offer is valid for a week. AirAsia will be servicing
the route with four direct flights a week through its long haul, low fare
affiliate AirAsia X. The airliner also plans to start operations between
Bangkok-Delhi and operations to KL from Amritsar, Chennai and Delhi.
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ASSOCIATION
Latest UNWTO report confirms upward trend in
international tourism
According to the
April Interim Update of the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international
tourist arrivals are estimated to have increased by 7 per cent in the first
two months of 2010. This follows the upturn already registered in the last
quarter of 2009 when arrivals grew by 2 per cent after 14 consecutive months
of negative results. Growth was particularly strong in Asia, Africa and the
Middle East. UNWTO forecasts international tourist arrivals to grow by 3 to
4 per cent in 2010.
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EXHIBITION
ATM registers 15% increase in the number of
participants and suppliers
The 17th Arabian
Travel Market opened with a fifteen per cent increase over the year 2009 in
the number of participants and suppliers. The Middle East tourism industry
readies to flex its tourism credentials as it looks to capitalise the
upcoming trade partners from the international markets.
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HOTEL
Sarovar opens 'Hometel Chandigarh'
Sarovar Hotels &
Resorts announced the opening of Hometel Chandigarh, city’s first branded
economy hotel and Sarovar’s fourth Hometel in the country. With the latest
addition the hotel company now boasts of 45 properties currently operating
across different brands in its portfolio. The 114-room hotel, owned and
managed by Sarovar, also offers banquet space spread over 8200 sq ft. The
property is located in the heart of city’s industrial area, within 10
minutes from the railway station and airport.
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'aloft' all set for its debut in India next
month
Starwood Hotels &
Resorts’ ‘aloft’ brand readying for its debut in India. The hotel company is
openning two ‘aloft’ hotels next month with Urbanedge Hotels. The 129-room
Chennai Aloft is openning in the first week of June followed by the 166-room
Bangalore property, slated to open by mid-June, 2010. Urbanedge is
establishing three more aloft properties in Coimbatore, Ahmedabad and
Chandigarh; currently under different stage of development, all these
properties will open doors by the end of this fiscal.
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InterGlobe and Accor to open three hotels at
Delhi Aerocity from 2011
InterGlobe and
Accor are together developing three hotel projects at the Delhi Aerocity,
IGI Airport. These hotels will be operational from 2011. The three
properties of InterGlobe and Accor will be an Ibis hotel in the economy
segment with 465 rooms, a Novotel hotel with 400 rooms in the first class
segment, and a Pullman hotel in the upscale segment with 270 rooms. All
three projects are under construction now. The Ibis hotel will open in the
first quarter of 2011, while the other two hotels will be open in the second
quarter of 2012.
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MOT
Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of
Environment and Forests clarified that Tiger Reserves in India will remain
open for tourism
Quashing the
various reports in both national and international media that the Government
was planning to stop tourism activities in the country’s Tiger Reserves. The
Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Environment and Forests clarified that
there is no such plan or proposal and Tiger Reserves in India to remain open
for tourism. Further, the MOT emphasises that development and promotion of
tourism is on a sustainable and responsible basis, which safeguards the
environmental interest as laid down in the National Tourism Policy 2002.
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NTO
Thailand to renew tourist visa fee exemption
scheme from May 11 onwards till March 31, 2011
Thailand has
restored the tourist visa fee exemption scheme that had expired on 4 March
2010, which now will be renewed from 11 May 2010 and will remain in force
till 31 March 2011.The said scheme will also cover exemption of the fee for
visa on arrival provided by the Immigration Bureau of Thailand at designated
checkpoints. However, the exemption scheme is not extended to other types of
visas that include non-immigrant visa and the transit visa.
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Switzerland Tourism to host workshop for
agents in September
In September, Switzerland Tourism will be
holding a workshop in Switzerland, where 30-35 agents from India will be
taken to Switzerland as part of its sustained travel experience programme.
It has also inducted a new managing director for India, which will up all
initiatives towards promoting Switzerland in India, as the Indian market has
huge potentials to attract the larger number of Indian arrivals to
Switzerland.
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