The Banihal-Qazigund section, which includes an 11-km-long tunnel, will reduce the distance from 35 km (by road) to 18 km. It has been constructed at a cost of Rs 1,691 crore ... Read more

Travel companies, seeing massive cancellations, are now advising tourists to visit these destinations in August ... Read more

The department had also organized a three-day cultural festival starting from June 13-15, 2013 titled ‘Goan Fest – 2013’ in New Delhi ... Read more

The US continued as the top source country, reaching 1 million tourists in 2012 ... Read more

These seminars were organized to update the travel trade community about the latest destination developments and product offers in Brussels and Flanders ... Read more

About 2,000-2,500 Japanese visit Goa while about 7,000-8,000 US tourists come to Goa during season time ... Read more

The government has charted a plan to develop three pilgrim tourism circuits one each at Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh regions to promote pilgrim tourism ... Read more

Work on the 25-km Udhampur-Katra difficult route is almost complete ... Read more

Tourists unhappy with lack of facilities & exorbitant fares charged by local taxi operators even as government is trying to improve the situation ... Read more

While most stranded passengers were on way to Gangotri from Rishikesh and Delhi, there were also people stuck returning from Yamunotri ... Read more