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Anil Oraw, Regional Director, Indiatourism North, believes that in the last 1.5 years, the travel patterns across the world have changed, with almost no travellers from overseas. Hence, on Ministry of Tourism’s advice, Indiatourism North has taken a few initiatives to facilitate better traffic. Nisha Verma Anil Oraw shared that …

Rupinder Brar, Additional Director General, Ministry of Tourism (MOT), claims that MOT is pushing for the industry’s demands to be heard, while creating a roadmap for promoting both inbound and domestic tourism. She says that the Ministry is aware of how lockdowns and restrictions significantly impact smaller businesses. The second …

Having conducted more than 100 virtual sessions with the trade across India so far, Indiatourism has not only been encouraging them to register with MOT but also advocating digital marketing as the means to promote Incredible India – with an MDA of Rs. 50,000. Indiatourism has been doing an ‘incredible’ …

The slew of activities organised by Ministry of Tourism to celebrate the seventh International Day of Yoga aimed to bring to light the importance of the Indian heritage in a COVID-riddled and post-pandemic world. Nisha Verma Ministry of Tourism (MOT) recently concluded a slew of activities that it had organised …

Prahlad Singh Patel, Minister of State (I/C) for Tourism & Culture, recently launched the Confederation of Hospitality, Technology and Tourism Industry (CHATT) platform to empower the voice of smaller operators in the travel and hospitality ecosystem. CHATT is the result of combined efforts of Airbnb, EaseMyTrip, OYO and Yatra, who …

The Union Minister of State for Tourism and Culture ( I/C) has highlighted the role of younger generation and technology in promoting India’s heritage on the international forum since they are adept at technology and have more resources at hand. Manas Dwivedi The Union Minister of State for Tourism and …

The Ministry of Tourism has formed a special committee of stakeholders active in the Northeast, tasked with identifying new destinations and developing itineraries around them among other things. TRAVTALK speaks to three members. Hazel Jain On March 19, 2021, active stakeholders from the tourism community of the Northeast region gathered …

Women have left stereotypes behind, but now there is a dire need to encourage entrepreneurship among them. Nisha Verma Addressing attendees at the TAAI-WITT and FICCI-FLO webinar titled ‘Skill HER for Sustainable Tourism’ powered by TRAVTALK, Arvind Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism (MOT), began by recognising the change that both …

Rupinder Brar, Additional Director General, MOT, says that they have constituted a committee of stakeholders who will be instrumental in promoting the Northeast region. Nisha Verma The newly-constituted committee of stakeholders in the Northeast met for the first time and deliberated on a strategy to promote tourism in the region. …