Kerala Travel Mart (KTM) Society has started preparations for a Virtual Kerala Travel Mart in March this year. The dates of the Virtual Travel Mart are expected to be announced soon by the Kerala Tourism department and KTM. The 5-day-long virtual exhibition will have B2B meetings and seminars on different topics. There will be seminars […]

The world’s best cities have just been revealed, and national capital of India features in it! Delhi features, albeit at the 62nd position, in this list of the world’s best cities for 2021. The ranking has been done by Resonance Consultancy Ltd. While travellers were compelled to embrace the new normal with the COVID pandemic, […]

Two years after Uttarakhand became the first state in the country to ban angling — catching fish using hooks and releasing them back into rivers and ponds in forests — the decision has been reversed. An order to this effect, dated November 18, signed by the chief wildlife warden JS Suhag has been sent to […]

Vistara, an Indian full-service airline owned by Tata Group and Singapore Airlines, is eyeing direct flights to the United States as the COVID-19 pandemic pushes demand for non-stop travel, a senior executive said. While the specific timeframe and aircraft requirements are yet to be finalised, Vistara is studying various scenarios for starting direct flights, Vinod […]

From December onwards the capital of Meghalaya – Shillong will share direct air connectivity with Delhi. As the state opens to domestic tourists, this direct connectivity has been a long-pending demand of the northeastern state. In a meeting between the chief minister of Meghalaya, Conrad Sangma and Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) minister, Jitendra […]

Vistara on 19 November launched its services between Delhi and Doha under the air bubble arrangement between India and Qatar. The inaugural flight departed yesterday from Delhi at 2000 hrs (IST) and landed in Doha at 2145 hrs (AST). The flight returned from Doha at 2245 hrs (AST) yesterday, landing in Delhi (DEL) at 0510 […]

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has established a separate bilateral air bubble arrangement with Ethiopia for operation of special international passenger flights between the two countries. “Attention travellers! An air travel arrangement has been established between India and Ethiopia. Designated carriers of both countries are permitted to operate flights between the two countries. Please […]

Union Culture & Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel has announced that all monuments under the ASI, except the 27 World Heritage Monuments, will be opened for photography, videography and film shooting free of cost starting from December 25, 2020, the birth anniversary of the former Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee. This facility will be available […]

Ramada by Wyndham has signed a franchise agreement with a hotel in Jaisalmer, owned by JAH Developers Private Limited. Jaisalmer, a popular tourist destination in the northwestern state of Rajasthan in India, is also known as the ‘golden city’ due to its bounteous golden dunes and castles clad in golden honey sandstone is famous for […]

Hilton today announced the opening of DoubleTree by Hilton Weerawila Rajawarna Resort, a new three-story, 78-room modern resort in Weerawila, Sri Lanka. The newly-built resort is owned by KDU Adventures (Private) Limited and joins Hilton Colombo and Hilton Colombo Residences as the third hotel to be managed by Hilton in the country. Located amongst lush […]

The domestic airlines recently announced resuming Mountain View flights after eight months of closure, as economic activities have started to pick-up again and return to normal, including all tourism-related activities in Nepal. The two big private sector companies and mountain flight operators in Nepal, Buddha Air, and Yeti Airlines, have already set a schedule for […]

The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has simplified the institutional quarantine norms for international travellers. With the new guidelines, international travellers can travel to India with a self-declaration on the online portal at least 72 hours before the scheduled travel or physically after arrival at the respective health counters. While the government prefers international […]

Adventurers looking to scale Nepal’s Himalayan peaks and trek its mountain trails can finally do so for the first time in seven months, as the country reopens to foreigners even as the coronavirus pandemic has left it short of hospital beds. For now, the reopening will come with restrictions and mainly be limited to those […]

With the objective of increasing distribution and making the sales process seamless, India’s leading low-cost carrier (LCC), IndiGo, has started IATA – Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) acceptance in Overseas Point of sales. To begin with, this facility is being offered at Point of Sales at United Arab Emirates, Qatar & United Kingdom and soon […]

The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on 01st November launched an on-site coronavirus testing laboratory, giving travellers the added facility for a safe journey. As per the government mandate, international passengers on arrival have to carry their RT-PCR negative report, conducted within 96 hours before departures from the origin country, a press release from GMR […]

The Ladakh administration will be setting up a snow ski institute along with other adventure sports facilities in Kargil district similar to Gulmarg’s Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering (IISM) to promote winter sports in the Union Territory, an official spokesperson said. “A winter sports institute would be established in Kargil district on the lines of […]

The Lonar Lake in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district has been chosen as a wetland site of international importance under the Ramsar conservation treaty, state Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray informed on Friday. He also uploaded two photographs of the site, taken by his father and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray who is known to be an avid photographer. […]

Telangana is all set to add a major tourist attraction as Buddha Vanam project, billed as the world’s largest Buddhist heritage theme park, is ready for inauguration. The prestigious project, which is expected to attract international tourists, has come up on 275 acres at Nagarjuna Sagar, one of the country’s largest and famous dams and […]

Morpho Hotels and Resorts is all set to launch in India in November and will be launching soon in other countries in the Middle East, Africa, among others. The brand aims to boost the hospitality industry by supporting independent hotels move towards optimized & digitized operations along with delivering superlative customer experience. The Morpho Group […]

As part of reviving the tourism sector in the state, Kerala Tourism has reopened its beaches, parks and museums to visitors from November 1. In the light of the ongoing pandemic, the government had decided to reopen the destinations in two phases. In the first phase, the government has permitted operation of houseboats, adventure tourism […]

Breaking the glass ceiling of Indian aviation, a woman has become the CEO of a scheduled passenger Indian carrier for the first time with the government appointing Harpreet A De Singh to the position for Air India’s regional subsidiary Alliance Air. Singh is currently AI’s executive director (flight safety). Captain Nivedita Bhasin, one of AI’s […]

Museums, exhibitions and art galleries under ministry of culture allowed to reopen from November 10, 2020, onwards, while others would be reopened as per convenience and in tune with relevant state, city and local laws. Based on the Unlock 5.0 Guidelines of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), and after taking into consideration suggestions received from […]