Tourism is a booming market in India and promises scores of jobs in the future. Statue of Unity, world’s tallest statue is already getting huge response from tourists and taking this into account the National Tourism Advisory Council (NTAC) and other stakeholders met with Gujarat Tourism officials. The meeting took place at Tent City, Statue […]
Saudi Arabia is going to invest USD 100 billion in the Indian economy. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was in India yesterday and he oversaw the signing and exchange of the agreements. Saudi investment will be in areas like energy, refining, petro-chemicals, infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing, tourism, housing and information, and […]
The Ministry of Tourism has identified Buddhist Circuit as one of the fifteen thematic circuits for development under Swadesh Darshan Scheme. The Ministry has sanctioned 5 projects under this circuit for Rs.361.97 crore. The details of projects for this scheme are as under: S.No. State Project Name Amt. Sanctioned (Rs. in Crore) 1. Madhya Pradesh […]
The top ten revenue generating monuments of India during 2015-18 are Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Qutub Minar, Red Fort, Humayun’s Tomb, Sun Temple Konark, Group of monuments Mamallapuram, Ellora Caves, Group of monuments Khajuraho, and Ajanta Caves, Aurangabad. The year wise details of expenditure incurred for conservation of protected monuments under Archaeological Survey of India […]
The Minister of State for Tourism, K J Alphons handed over a Memorandum of Understanding under the ‘Adopt a Heritage’ project to M/s Resbird Technologies for development of a mobile Audio Guide App for five iconic sites here, today. The five iconic sites for which the mobile Audio Guide App is to be developed are […]
Ramayana Circuit is one of the fifteen thematic circuits identified for development under the Swadesh Darshan scheme of Ministry of Tourism. The Ministry has initially identified fifteen destinations for development under the Ramayana Circuit theme namely Ayodhya, Nandigram, Shringverpur & Chitrakoot (Uttar Pradesh), Sitamarhi, Buxar & Darbhanga (Bihar), Chitrakoot (Madhya Pradesh), Mahendragiri (Odisha), Jagdalpur (Chattisgarh), […]
Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, Foreign Minister of Iceland is on a visit to India from 7-14 December 2018. The Icelandic Foreign Minister, on his maiden visit to India, came in the inaugural flight of WOW airlines, the Icelandic carrier which has started direct flights, thrice a week from Reykjavik to New Delhi. During the visit, the […]
The Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha met with the Tourism Minister of Western Australia Paul Papalia here today to receive further commitments from the Western Australian State Government to establish direct non-stop flights between India and Perth. The Ministers said the discussions were positive, agreeing there would be benefits for both Western […]
Tourism Minister K J Alphons said that the Tourism Sector alone has created 14.62 million job opportunities in the country in the last four years. Addressing the media in New Delhi on 17th July, the Minister further elaborated that the Tourism sector provides opportunities to skilled as well as unskilled job seekers thereby providing employment […]
Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Shipping, Road Transport & Highways, Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation chaired an interactive session of various stakeholders of the travel and tourism trade in Mumbai last week, to formulate an action plan for realizing the full potential of Cruise Tourism in the country. Union Minister of State for Tourism […]
