Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a special Diwali edition of his signature Mann Ki Baat series on Sunday, pitched the idea of ‘Festival Tourism’, inviting NRIs to get involved in the process.
Category: Travel
GoAir to connect Singapore with Bengaluru and Kolkata
Singapore will be the airline’s eighth overseas destination.
Singapore pushes for million visitors a year from India
According to the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), the city-state is looking at continuing the four-year trend of having over a million visitor arrivals from India in the current year.
Singapore Tourism Board goes all out to attract Indian visitors
As part of an ongoing plan to develop tourism with India, travel planners SOTC and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) have collaborated in launching a unique series of 3-D art installations featuring the Lion City’s attractions.
Aviation milestone as Air India gets set to fly over the North Pole
National carrier Air India is all set to operate its AI 173 New Delhi-San Francisco route over the North Pole to reduce flight times and fuel costs.
Telling all Indians how to behave because of some bad tourists is just excessive
The outburst of feelings of shame, embarrassment and broad appeals to Indian tourists to watch their behaviour after a video from a hotel in Indonesia’s Bali about a stealing family of tourists and a racist notice in a Swiss hotel teaching Indians breakfast manners, is a massive overreaction.
Vistara adds Dubai as its second international destination after Singapore
Air carrier Vistara has announced that Dubai will be its second international destination, with flights set to begin from August 21.
In Pics: African Safari in Canada
Unlike the traditional zoo where visitors freely roam the grounds observing animals in cages, the African Lion Safari, near Toronto, Ontario, is set up to allow visitors to drive at their own pace around multi acre reserves in which the animals roam freely.
Indian tourists jet around the world as incomes rise
With more youngsters from India’s 350-million-strong burgeoning middle-class planning international vacations, the country’s outbound tourism has registered a spectacular growth in the past five years.
Conditional visa-on-arrival for Indians travelling to the UAE
The General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) in Dubai has said that Indians visiting the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will get visas-on-arrival if they are already residency visa holders of the United Kingdom or the European Union.
