Also has recommended that like airports, seaports and railways, hotels also should be included as an infrastructural facility eligible for benefits under Section 80 I A of the Income Tax Act ... Read more

To host the Conference of United Nation's World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), Regional Commission for South Asia, East Asia and Pacific countries ... Read more

January observed a decline of 15.9 per cent in total tourist arrivals as compared to the same month last year ... Read more

The emphasis would also be on cultural, historical and archaeological exchanges ... Read more

Government pushes to increase flight connectivity to smaller airports ... Read more

The tourism department is hoping to spend around Rs 55 crore by March 2013 ... Read more

with around 6500 hotel rooms, Darjeeling sector receives around 50,000 foreign and 5 lakh domestic tourists per year that generates a business of around Rs 350 crore per annum ... Read more

As of now, only Haj flights are being operated from Indore during Haj season every year ... Read more

The earthen roads have become highly slippery while some of the areas have become unsuitable for visitors ... Read more

The Ministry of Tourism has launched an effort to popularise the town where the film Zero Dark Thirty was shot and inform potential visitors about how to get there ... Read more