India has been elected to the Inter-governmental Committee of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) for four years, tweeted Union Minister for Culture, Tourism and Development Of North Eastern Region G. Kishan Reddy 

According to Tourism Minister of Uttarakhand, Satpal Maharaj, Auli will become a year-round tourist destination. He added that a skiing village will also be developed in Auli, in addition to various activities related to adventure tourism that will also be organized in Auli throughout the year, e.g., skiing in winter, and adventure sports like trekking, hiking, and rock climbing in the other seasons. 

Ministry of Tourism launched a website named utsav.gov.in and called for the content of various events and festivals, and live darshan details of temple deities from all the States/UTs. As per the state ranking list revealed by MOT declared Maharashtra as number 1 on the portal with 10 published live darshan listings and, among the top 10 states with 8 published events and festivals’ listings.  

Business Events Sydney (BESydney) in partnership with Business Events Australia (BEA) launched a new online game to showcase the destination appeal of Sydney for incentive events. BESydney’s new ‘Experience Sydney’ game is specially designed for the India, Malaysia and Singapore market with prize vouchers up for grabs AU1,000, $500 and $250. The aim of the game is to educate BESydney’s corporate clients in South and Southeast Asia as well as travel agents, inbound operators and industry. The second phase will see the game launched in Japan and South Korea.

G Kamala Vardhana Rao, Director General, Ministry of Tourism said the government is focusing on improving the connectivity, especially in the Northeast region, since connectivity is a major problem and is impacting the tourism potential that the region has.  

The governments of West Bengal and Sikkim have signed an agreement to help tourists travel between the two neighbouring states with ease in a bid to boost tourism. The agreement will allow West Bengal-registered commercial vehicles to drop tourists at their hotels in different destinations of Sikkim. 

The Australian government has updated its border entry protocols and visitors no longer need to undertake a negative COVID-19 test report before traveling to Australia. People traveling to Australia won’t need to complete a Digital Passenger Declaration (DPD) to declare their COVID-19 vaccination status, following changes to the Biosecurity Act, which come into effect from midnight AEST on Wednesday, 6 July 2022.  

Ministry of Tourism has recently developed Utsav, a portal that showcases the month-wise and state-wise calendar contents on festivals, fairs, events, and online darshans across India to promote different regions of the country as popular tourist destinations. 

Gurbaxish Singh Kohli, VP, FHRAI said, “Most of these guidelines issued by CCPA are already followed by hotels & restaurants. It’s extremely disheartening that the hospitality industry is constantly singled out. We have explained over and over again that there is nothing illegal in collecting a service charge.” 

The Meliá Atocha hotel in Madrid was the venue chosen by the tour operator to celebrate together this special date, with its almost 200 guests. Madrid, 26/05/2022 – The management group, the founding partners, representatives of the Latin American operators, the head office team, and tour guides, together with family and loved ones of the company, got together again after two years to not only celebrate Europamundo Vacaciones 25th anniversary but also to enjoy the meeting after the hard period the company has been through. The idea was also to give away to a year in which they are going to experience a series of very important structural changes. The guests arrived at 7pm on Thursday evening, and after those first emotional encounters of all the attendees, an event marked by three great moments began: Origins, We are Europamundo, and Future. Marisol Amo, head of the Tour Guides Department, and Úrsula Cortés, General Management Assistant, both in charge of the organisation of the event, kicked off the event by presenting a first video starring all those who were part of the creation of the company, long before those recently celebrated 25 years, since most of them have been working together for more than 30 or 35 years! It was a very emotional moment as it was attended not only by the most veteran team, but also by family members and people who have been with Luis Garcia, current CEO and founder of the company. Afterwards, the founding partners and Luis Garcia shared a few words with the attendees. The cocktail party began in a festive and joyful athmosphere, with a sense of celebration among the attendees. The halfway point of …