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Value addition for travel agents

RezLive.com to offer more benefits to partners through the e-Learning programme, as well as rezRewards. In a bid to educate travel partners on practical information related to Rezlive.com, the global reservation system of Travel Designer Group has launched an e-Learning programme for travel partners. According to Jaal Shah, Group Managing …

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Ideal partner for agents

TI Infotech offers solutions to the travel industry to help enhance the traveller’s booking experience with products like the travel cloud suite and travel assist. TI Infotech offers comprehensive tour management solutions, DMC solutions, online travel booking engines, travel CRM, mobile Apps, corporate self booking tool, responsive e-commerce portals etc. …

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Nine experts, one platform

Nine travel specialists in nine off-beat regions of India have come together to offer quality solutions to agents, and named it ‘India B2B’. HAZEL JAIN Nine domestic tour operators who were destination experts in their right have come together to form a consortium in offer B2B solutions to the travel …

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Maya to set off for Kochi

The fourth edition of the South India Travel Awards, will be held on May 2, 2017, at Crowne Plaza Kochi, to honour stalwarts of the tourism industry. India Travel Awards honour the achievers of the tourism industry, who have gone above and beyond to make a difference. Gunjan Sabikhi, Convener, …

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Industry is now left high & dry

As an unintended consequence of the recent ban on liquor sale near highways by the Supreme Court of India, the hospitality and tourism industry has been left in a dither. The industry shares its perspective and further effects it will have on business across the country. David Scowsill, President and …

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Making foray into the Baltic

Shivantika Bon Voyage, a destination management company catering to the Baltic countries in India, is ready to roll out its pan-Indian marketing plan for 2017 and is offering series group departures for June 2017. Shivantika Bon Voyage, a one-year-old company, has received a heartening response from the industry, informs, Naveen …

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India #3 Asian market for Eurail

Riding on the wave of Indian outbound to Europe, Eurail has in turn recorded huge numbers. It has in fact categorised India under ‘priority’ markets this year that will see an uptick in budgets. HAZEL JAIN Earning the position of being Asia’s third-biggest market for Eurail after South Korea and …

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Travel insurance for assurance

Getting a travel insurance policy before an international trip is more of a necessity than an option now and it is the responsibility of travel consultants to inform their clients about the benefits of getting one M. RAVICHANDRAN Checking the best options for flights, visa applications, hotels, and sightseeing tours …

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Emirates’ commission cut gets

Another large international airline has decided to cut its distribution expenses by revising its travel agent commission from the current 3 per cent to 1 per cent. Is it a sign of the things to come? Sunil Kumar DDP Game Changer 2014 and President, TAAI Travel agents have always supported …

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Caper gears up to go public

Bharat Bhushan Atree, Managing Director, Caper Travel Company (CTC), shares his company’s growth projection which include nurturing SBUs, a feat that has been in practice and has successfully honed talent through the years. Q What was the demand like in the inbound segment last year for Caper? Caper benefitted with …

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