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A
smooth drive
The car rental market in India is highly unorganised with
innumerable players enjoying a share of the pie. Chetan
Kapoor finds out what is driving this business
The
Cook's new recipe
After consolidation, Thomas Cook has now gotten into the franchise
mode, finds Reema Sisodia.
VisitBritain:
Bringing in business
Balancing the precarious equation between travel and business,
VisitBritain recently held the fourth edition of its largest
B2B event for the Asia Pacific region, Destination Britain,
in Beijing, with a sharp focus on India-its key growth market,
reports Neeti Mehra.
Wake
up and smell the beverage
India has the best of tea and coffee. With a dash of strong
marketing initiatives, stirred with effective public-private
partnership efforts, we can have a refreshingly new product
ready to be served, feels Reema Sisodia who feels that India
can truly use beverage therapy to uplift the tourists' spirit.
MP
Tourism: A new heartbeat
If the current pace of progression is anything to go by, Madhya
Pradesh tourism will soon give the top few destinations a
run for their money, finds Jyoti Koul.
Commonwealth
Games 2010: An insight
Even though we are three years away from the Delhi Commonwealth
Games, Express TravelWorld examines its impact on the tourism
industry and how India is coping up with the infrastructure
developments.
Salzburg:
A musical trail
It is a little known secret that Mozart's hometown attracts
more tourists today who want to explore the beautiful locales
where the 'Sound of Music' was picturised, than to see the
birthplace of one of the world's greatest music composers,
finds Sudipta Dev.
ATE
2007 receives Indian buyer's thumbs-up
Reema Sisodia witnesses a show that is both professional and
highly effective for business building.
'This
year saw increased interest in India from Australian sellers'
The Australian Tourism Forecasting Council estimates 95,000
visitors from India in the year ending 2007 and 111,000 visitors
for 2008. Maggie White, general manager (South/SE Asia and
Gulf Countries) for Tourism Australia tells Reema Sisodia
the complete story.
Marketing
success or management failure?
With global international visitor arrivals expected to rise
from an estimated 842 million in 2006 past the one billion
mark by 2010, the travel & tourism industry is now beginning
to look at these numbers with some trepidation.
MICE
travel is big business
India's tourism industry is on the cusp of an upswing; its
travel and tourism market was valued at US$ 42 billion in
2005 (Euro Monitor 2006). Globally the segment of Meetings,
Incentives, Conventions & Expositions, popularly called
MICE, contributes to as much as 30 per cent to the overall
travel volumes and India is no exception to it.
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