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Malaysia is ready to welcome international travellers from 1 April 2022, especially from the Middle East region. With 90 per cent of its population being fully vaccinated, including booster dose, tourists should feel confident to visit the country. Nisha Verma Manoharan Periasamy, Senior Director, International Promotion Division (Asia & Africa), …

For Accor the idea is to offer choices for travellers in terms of varied options of stay and experiences with a host of properties in different genres across the country. Nisha Verma Puneet Dhawan, Senior Vice President Operations, India and South Asia, Accor, has claimed that the company was expanding …

Accor India & South Asia is improving its market share in Indian market and trying to remain ahead of stiff competition by offering a variety of stay options through its different properties across India, including a whole new luxury portfolio. Nisha Verma Revealing a bouquet of offerings from Accor, Pratima …

An early starter in the events industry of Hyderabad, Rakhi Kankaria from Rachnoutsav, has carved her own niche. She believes that tourism and events are inseparable, as tourism creates opportunities for a traveller to reach to a destination, an event professional can add a lot of texture to the human …

Government of India is developing 10 museums on tribal freedom fighters to recognise their contribution in the freedom struggle, besides continuing its support to specialised museums such as textiles and crafts museums, defence museums and railway museums. Nisha Verma G Kishan Reddy, Union Minister for Culture, Tourism and DoNER, recently …

Zuri White Sands, Goa Resort & Casino, spread over 40 acres, is among the few hotels in the coastal state that offers multiple venues for various functions in a wedding as well as two ocean-facing lawns to play the perfect host, says Ajith Nair, the resort’s Head of Sales & …

Adventure tourism was more affected than any other tourism trade due to the pandemic and other factors. Now, ATOAI is proactively improving products to meet the client needs and deliver best results. Janice Alyosius Adventure tourism is passing through a difficult phase. “Adventure tourism is more affected than other tourism …

Year 2021 was ‘successful’ for WelcomHeritage despite COVID-19. Now, the hospitality chain looks forward with ‘much optimism’ as it plans to open new properties. WelcomHeritage, one of the leading hospitality chain in India, is expanding its hotel portfolio in some of the key tourist destinations in the country. Led by …

Juliette Losardo, Exhibition Director, WTM London in conversation with Devika Jeet, Director, DDP India, talks about the challenges facing the travel trade sector and how they plan to overcome them, especially after the intensity of COVID-19 has lessened the world over. TT Bureau What would be your vision for WTM …