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ASSOCIATION
FICCI and ADTOI to jointly organise the Ist Domestic Tourism Conclave on
August 10 in New Delhi
FICCI, with the Support of
Association of Domestic Tour Operators of India (ADTOI), will organise the
first ever Domestic Tourism Conclave scheduled for the August 10, 2011 at
The Lalit, New Delhi. The conclave is an endeavour to chalk out a viable
strategy to increase the flow of domestic tourists within India. There will
be three plenary sessions that will make policy makers and stakeholders in
the
Domestic tourism dwell deeper on the vision and challenges confronting
the domestic market.
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HOTELS
Hotel Sheraton opens in Bengaluru with an introductory fare of Rs 6999/-
Starwood Hotels and Resorts this
week opened a new Sheraton hotel in Bangalore. Located in the neighbourhood
of Malleswaram, the Hotel forms a part of the expansive Brigade Gateway
lifestyle enclave comprising of the World Trade Centre office tower, the
massive Orion Mall and Multiplex. The hotel offers 230 guest rooms and
suites which combine classic and contemporary designs in a comfortable
setting. The introductory offer for the rooms is Rs 6,999/-.
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MOT
Subodh Kant Sahai, Union Minister of Tourism, allocates Rs 150 crore for 'Mahaparipath',
a Sufi Tourism Circuit Development Project, in Gujarat
Subodh Kant Sahai, Union Tourism
Minister recently announced an allocation of Rs 150 crore for Dwarka,
Porbandar and Kabirwad. The project which is called 'Mahaparipath' aims to
develop a Sufi tourism circuit on the lines of Buddhist and Jain circuits.
The Centre would allocate an additional Rs 50 crore over and above Rs 50
crore for the Kabirwad project and Rs 25 crore for Dwarka and Porbandar
each.
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MOT meets trade’s demand by upgrading its website to
make it more user-friendly
Stakeholders will be in for a
pleasant surprise, when they log on to the upgraded portal of the Ministry
of Tourism (MOT). Trade had on their wish-list a more aesthetically strong
website of MOT. The new upgraded website is not only visually appealing, but
is much faster and more user friendly.
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STATE
Maharashtra Govt. sanctions an additional fund
worth Rs 25 crore for promoting Tiger Reserves in Vidharbha
The state forest department will
promote tiger tourism in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. Prithviraj Chavan,
Chief Minister, Maharashtra had directed finance department to provide
additional funds for promoting tiger reserves at Tadoba, Melghat and Pench.
The budgetary allocation from the union government was Rs 25 crore and with
additional funds worth Rs 25 crore, a total of Rs 50 crore will be available
for the development of the reserves. The Tadoba Tiger reserve had 1 lakh
tourist footfalls in 2010. The forest department is putting together a plan
to double the number of tourists visiting tiger reserves. Good facilities
and packages for circuit trips to various tiger reserves are on cards to
promote forest tourism in the region. Earlier, Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister
of State for Environment and Forest, during his visit to the state, had
declared Nagpur as a 'tiger gateway'.
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