The two sides agreed to promote tourism development and cooperation as well as the opening-up of ports and resumption of direct passenger land transport between Lhasa and Kathmandu ... Read more

An analysis of the top searched travel websites showed that railways, airline tickets, and hotel booking sites were an obvious trend; Mobile driving the search growth ... Read more

Three foreign LCCs are learnt to have approached him to take up to 49% stake in the proposed new venture for which he has already applied to the aviation ministry to get a licence ... Read more

Indian Tour Operators are being discriminated as the export industry is exempted from Service Tax whereas the Tourism industry is not: IATO ... Read more

WTM technology region has been the fastest growing segment of the WTM exhibition floor, increasing by 40% and 30% over the past two events with mobile exhibitors being a key part of the expansion ... Read more

Portugal, Monaco, New Zealand, South Africa, China, the Philippines, Brazil, Ethiopia and Egypt have been trying to strengthen their ties with India to promote tourism ... Read more

Economy class travel was up 4.4% in October year-on-year, slightly weaker than September’s 5.0% growth ... Read more

Maharashtra's only palace hotel has been taken over by Mumbai-based Saraswat Cooperative Bank Ltd, and its operations shut Dec 13 for defaulting loan repayment ... Read more

A matchmaking event for exhibitors and bloggers – reception for bloggers at the Travel Massive event on the eve of ITB Berlin 2013 – eTravel World ... Read more

Chennai will be the first city in South India to offer a three-class configuration - new Business Class, Premium Economy Class and the new long-haul Economy Class from 1 January 2013 ... Read more