'We Will Create An Investor Friendly Atmosphere'
In an exclusive conversation with P R Subas Chandran, Andhra Pradesh's chief minister, Dr Y S Rajasekhara Reddy draws attention to India's most emerging state in hospitality and tourism and what his government is doing to facilitate this growth…

Orissa Gets Aggressive On Tourism Promotion
Tourism is a big revenue-earner for Orissa and the state government is taking all possible measures to attract more tourists into the state.

Jharkhand To Invest Rs 20 Crore For Tourism Infrastructure Development
Jharkhand, one of the latest States to enter the Indian Union has accorded top-most priority to tourism and charted a roadmap to increase the flow of inbound domestic tourists into the State substantially in the next couple of years.

UTDB Envisages Rs 1,200 Crore From Private Sector For Projects & Master Plans
Uttaranchal tourism has a new team in place, which promises to strengthen the state's tourism prospects further. Alok Kumar Jain, principal secretary, Tourism, and chief executive officer, Uttaranchal Tourism Development Board (UTDB) and Arun Srivastava, director-marketing and publicity, UTDB, in an interview with Reema Sisodia, spell out the state’s tourism initiatives and plan .

Andhra Pradesh Rewriting Its Agenda
Andhra Pradesh is in great hurry. The bureaucrats are drawing an ambitious plan to sell the state in the market of the hospitality industry.

WBTDC Designs River Cruise Along The Hoogly For ‘Durga Puja’
For the first time, West Bengal Tourism along with West Bengal Tourism Development Corporation (WBTDC), a state government undertaking has designed a special river cruise during the four-day Durga Puja on river Hooghly.

Maharashtra Proposes To Get New Tourism Policy
After a gap, Maharashtra tourism is in news again. This time it is not about any new tourism projects but that of an entire new tourism policy, which is proposed to come into action by the end of 2005.