Aug 20th, 2009 – Travel News

Travelocity acquires Travelguru

Times of India 

MUMBAI: In a bid to grow globally, travel portal Travelocity has acquired Travelguru, India's leading online hotel distribution network for an undisclosed ...

Miss India's parents terrorised, scared to travel

Times of India

A group of Gurgaon hooligans have forced Ekta's parents to cancel plans to attend the Miss Universe contest in Bahamas. The last time we spoke to Miss India ...

Drass embraces polo to promote tourism

IBNLive.com 

LET'S PLAY: The who's who of Indian polo landed at the high turfs for a friendly game. ibnlive.com is on mobile now. Read news, watch videos be a Citizen ...

Scott, dicaprio travel to Brave New World

Screen Weekly 

Ridley Scott is going back to the futurism. The Blade Runner director is joining forces with Leonardo dicaprio to take on one of the most highly regarded ...

Tourism industry asked to cash on C'Wealth Games

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, Aug 19 (PTI) With over one lakh foreigners expected to throng the city during Commonwealth Games, tourism industry must gear up to reap the ...

Pearl Travels launches Franchise India Programme for travel trade

TravelBizMonitor -

Pune-based B2B online travel consolidator, www.pearltravels.com, has launched Franchise India Programme for travel agents and ...

SpiceJet calls for digital pitch

exchange4media.com

Following the launch of its new communication to effectively improve its brand image and have a top of mind recall, SpiceJet has strong plans to induce this ...

They put a spin on adventure tourism in Kerala

SamayLive

Kochi: Nine years after they quit the Indian Navy, two men here are basking in the success of the adventure tourism company they started in ...

Canadian Tourism Commission appoints Buzz Travel Marketing as ...

TravelBizMonitor

By TBM Staff | New Delhi The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) has appointed Buzz Travel Marketing India Private Limited as its Indian representative to ...

Union Minister for Tourism urged to prepare plan for development ...

TravelBizMonitor 

By TBM Staff | Mumbai According to a report in Times of India, with an aim to develop Nagpur as a major Ecotourism centre, Vilas Muttemwar, MP, Nagpur, ...

Flu-hit travel portals see jump in traffic

mydigitalfc.com 

Swine flu may be among the most Googled by Indians, but apart from a brief lull in the Mumbai-Pune circuit last week, domestic travel seems ...

Gujarat govt forms GTDC to promote tourism in state

HospitalityBizIndia

By HBI Staff | Mumbai The Gujarat government has formed Gujarat Tourism Development Company (GTDC) in order to develop, create and market tourism related ..

ITDC starts bus tours between Kolkata and other districts for ...

TravelBizMonitor

By TBM Staff | Kolkata India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) is conducting bus tours between Kolkata and districts like Nadia, Howrah, ...

Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Department to organise Ladakh Festival ...

TravelBizMonitor 

By TBM Staff | Mumbai The Department of Tourism, Jammu and Kashmir will organise various sports and adventure activities in Ladakh to coincide with this ..

Nepal tourism stakeholders demand for immigration office at ...

TravelBizMonitor

By TBM Staff | Mumbai According to a report in kantipuronline.com by Lila Ballav Ghimire, tourism and hotel entrepreneurs in Eastern Nepal have appealed to ...

IFC to Help Modernize Maldives Airport to Sustain Tourism-based ...

India PRwire (press release) (press release) 

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will work with the government of Maldives to modernize the Malé airport to improve efficiencies, provide better ...

Mauritius' H1 tourism revenue falls on global slump

Reuters India 

PORT LOUIS, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Mauritius saw a 17.7 percent decline in gross tourism receipts in the first half of 2009 as the global ...

Travel firms, hotels awarded for giving back to society

Reuters India 

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Most holidays tend to be self-indulgent affairs but the places you stay at need not be, with travel magazine Conde Naste ...

Logo's tripoutgaytravel.com Announces Nominees for Its First Ever ...

IT News Online

NEW YORK, Aug. 19 /prnewswire/ -- Logo, a unit of Viacom's MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), announced today that tripoutgaytravel.com, its comprehensive ...

Top Ten Need-To-Know Travel Insurance Terms from InsureMyTrip.com

IT News Online 

WARWICK, RI, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- For many people, insurance can seem like a foreign language that only those fluent in 'insurance speak' can understand. ...

Schwarzenegger tours devastation after prison riot

Indopia

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday toured the Southern California prison where 175 inmates were injured in a riot earlier this month, likening the ...

Photos: Traxo Launches Social Travel Service that Makes Sharing ...

IT News Online

DALLAS, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ --In an effort to smarten social travel sites, Traxo announces the public beta launch of Traxo.com, a free trip and itinerary ...

Weinstein-Backed High End Travel-Lifestyle Social Network ...

TechWhack (press release) (press release)

Last fall, after laying off 40% if its staff, the future of Weinstein-backed high-end members-only travel oriented social network ASMALLWORLD –like that of ...

Canada woos Indian tourists, opens tourism office

Daily Pioneer 

PTI | New Delhi The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) on Wednesday announced the opening of its representative office in India to promote North American ...

 


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