Chief minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the B2B meet on July 14 ; a crab catching tour, mud football, rock music led by Usha Uthup, mountain biking, off road car rally fun for the travel trade ... Read more

International tourist arrivals worldwide grew by 5% in the first four months of 2012, despite remaining economic uncertainties in some of the major outbound markets: UNWTO World Tourism Barometer ... Read more

Tourists are providing income for the conservation of wetlands worldwide, as demonstrated in a new publication launched by the Ramsar Secretariat and UNWTO ... Read more

Will work together towards a sustained sensitization campaigns for train travellers and service providers under the Capacity Building for Service Providers scheme of Ministry of Tourism ... Read more

Sahai said that SAARC region has immense growth potential, which till date has not been fully utilized while inaugurating the conclave of SAARC tour operators in New Delhi ... Read more

California's top Overseas visitor markets in 2011 were: U.K. (710,000), Japan (565,000), Australia (562,000) ... Read more

The order follows reports of video footage featuring the aboriginals dancing for food in front of foreign tourists and officials on "human safaris" ... Read more

The number of foreign tourist visits to States/UTs registered a growth of 8.85% over 2010 as compared to a growth of 24.6% in 2010 over 2009 ... Read more

With 72.6 million visitors, the numbers going to the 64 Parisian cultural sites surveyed increased by more than 2.5 per cent year-on-year ... Read more

It is home to at least 325 globally threatened flora, fauna, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish species: UNESCO ... Read more