Visit Utah will conduct it’s first-ever presentation for the Indian travel trade today at 11am. Rachel Bremer, its Tourism Global Markets Director, will highlight the state’s must-visit spots and its appeal to the Indian clientele. To sign up, contact Jaspreet Kaur on 9650196532 or jaspreet.kaur@ddppl.com.
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The next edition of the International Tourism Fair, FITUR 2021, will now be held from 19 to 23 May next year, as agreed by IFEMA and the FITUR Organising Committee. This decision was taken to preserve the high international impact of this event at a time when trade fairs play a critical role in tourism recovery.
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Sharing its views on the recent changes in TCS on Twitter, the Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) stated, ‘TCS will kill the outbound tour market and the changes in LTC will kill the domestic tour market. Government actions are not in sync with our needs. No hand-eye coordination between government speeches and action.’
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Radisson Hotel Group has launched a new brand, Radisson Individuals, giving independent hotels and small chains the opportunity to become part of the global Radisson Hotel Group platform and benefit from international exposure, with the freedom to maintain their own unique style and identity.
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The Department of Tourism & Culture, State Tourism of Maharashtra has created a task force to revive this sector and create an action plan. For this, it has appointed key members from the tourism and hospitality sectors including Harmandeep Singh Anand, Jt. MD, Jagsons Travels and GPS and the IATO President. This task force is led by the State Tourism Minister, Aaditya Thackeray. Other members of the team include President of NRAI, President of EEMA, Farhat Jamal who is the President of the Indian Merchants Chamber, Suneet Kothari from Aurangabad, and Valsa Nair Singh, the Tourism Department’s Principal Secretary, Government of Maharashtra.
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Ahmedabad-based Pathfinders Holidays celebrates its 23rd anniversary this month. Led by Maitreyee and Mahendra Vakharia together with their son Karan Vakharia, the company focuses on bespoke travel itineraries to worldwide destinations and within India. Their client base is spread out not only in India but also in UK, USA and Canada and they manage their holiday arrangements from the Ahmedabad office
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The Goa government yesterday approved the long-awaited Goa Tourism Policy 2020, with a vision to make the state the “most preferred destination around the year for high-spending tourists” by 2024. Commenting on the new tourism policy that Goa has approved, Nilesh Shah, President, Travel & Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG), says, “We welcome the new tourism policy which was a long-standing demand. But we are not happy with the way it is being implemented and it is not as per our inputs and discussions. The new policy is not what was initially visualised by Manohar Parrikar which was to leave the growth of the tourism industry in the hands of the private sector. The tourism board was to have five members from the private sector and five from the government. But I see that three members have been added to the government side and another three are to be appointed by the government from the industry. As a result, the Board now constitutes of 12 members from or by the government and only 5 to be appointed by the industry.” He added that the tourism board will not be industry-driven as was originally planned and its CEO will be appointed by the government and not from outside as was requested.
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Sunil B Satyawakta from Lucknow has been appointed as Interim Chairman by the Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) for the Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand Chapter. He joins Gayatri Khanna (Hon. Secretary) and Swati Dimri (Hon. Treasurer) as Office Bearers of the Chapter. This development took place on October 14, 2020 via a virtual meeting in the presence of the TAAI National President and the National MC. Satyawakta will retain this position until the next association elections that will take place in November 2020.
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CommonPass, or a COVID-passport, is a technology framework that can be used by apps to verify an individual’s health status. It is being trialled by two airlines across a few sectors in the world. The system hopes to become a fail-safe way to verify a traveller’s health status and tally it against local entry laws. If it works, it could inspire governments to drop bans and quarantines.
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In a bid to revive the hard-hit tourism industry, Nepal announced that foreign tourists having COVID-19 negative report will not be required to quarantine themselves for seven days from October 17. Foreign trekkers may enter without quarantine if they produce a PCR negative report from October 17. Its tourism ministry is working to carry out instant antigen test for COVID-19 for foreign tourists upon their arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport.
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