Maharashtra Tourism has received a Siver Play button award for crossing over 1 lakh followers on YouTube. Currently, at 127k subscribers, Maharashtra Tourism’s community is rapidly growing through different campaigns, informative and engaging videos that keep the audience hooked. The content has crossed over 10 million views, and its Youtube family is growing rapidly.

Très 2022, a two-day event showcased some of the most extraordinary boutique hotels and travel concepts from the Indian subcontinent. Speaking with Trunk India founder Ali Barter at the event, revealed that tourism from Australia to India is rising. “September of this year has been booked out for the first tour and a trip in March of next year is looking good as well”. “There is a strong cultural connection between Australia & Inda, there is always somewhere to come in India), and people here are very welcoming,” she added.

New research by Sabre identifies prominent shifts in travel. The results indicate that revenge travel with the objective of making up for lost time is a meaningful phenomenon, with 68% of travel leaders responding that they are forecasting a higher spend from consumers on their future travel plans. More than a third of airline and agency leaders participating in the survey indicated that they believe travel will return to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2024; a further third responded that they believe this will happen in 2025 or beyond. 

According to the latest ticketing data from ForwardKeys, international travel has reached 62% of 2019 levels in Q2 – Europe and the Americas are leading the race to recover fastest and are closer to recovery in the next six months. More excitingly for those agencies who specialise in designer brands or business travellers, business travel is rearing its head, at 10% of 2019 levels.

Kerala Travel Mart has used technology effectively and intelligently to ensure that no less than 55,000 meetings, have already been scheduled at the event, shared Dr.Venu V. (IAS), Additional Chief Secretary, Kerala Tourism “This is intelligent use of Technology. It is this spirit of innovation and change that has kept industry improving from one KTM to the next,” he said in his inaugural address.

Maharashtra Tourism organised a mother’s day event in Mother’s day week as a treat to moms in a Bollywood style. The mommy bloggers were shown around the Bollywood Theme Park created at Filmcity, Goregaon, on Thursday, 5th May 2022. Around 20 bloggers from Bloggers Meet Info (BMI) community participated in the event. The event started with delicious lunch treat to the mommies followed by 7D theatre experience at the park. They found it thrilling, exciting and entertaining. Most of them experienced 7D for the first time. In Croma theatre they learnt how film footages are shot, edited in VFX and the secrets of foley sounds used in movies to create dramatic effect. An AV on the history of Indian Cinema in a vintage Bollywood style theatre was shown to them. The participants had a fun time enjoying filmy performances of the troop. The park had huge beautifully created sets of different themes along with costumes of popular film characters on display for trial purpose. Dummy bollywood artists were also present to entertain them with their tricks and acts. Shreya Gautam, a mommy Influencer said, “We attend several events specially during mother’s day but this initiative by Maharashtra Tourism and Bollywood Park was truly a unique and entertaining experience. I really had a great time making filmy reels on the sets, trying the Jodha Akbar and Mastani’s costume, having a thrilling 7D experience and gaining insights of the film making techniques. The cake cutting was the cherry on the top since the organisers were considerate enough to get us a diet cake.” Stuti, another mommy blogger said, “I wasn’t expected such a hatake and quirky experience from a Tourism Board. My …

Goa Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte said an agency would be appointed for integrated management of beaches, which would include round the clock cleaning of the shoreline. “The integrated module for beach management will include tourism information centre, convenience centre, beach cleaning round the clock, surveillance cameras, proper illumination. Since police can’t be posted round the clock at beaches, the tourism department will employ personnel to curb illegal activities like touting, unauthorized vending,” the minister said. 

JK Mohanty, CMD, Swosti Group, has said that the Ministry of Tourism should include Odisha in their Incredible India campaign worldwide. “Odisha has many natural and heritage sites. However, it’s missing from the MOT’s Incredible India campaign. I request the MOT to include it in the campaign so that it gets foreign tourist arrival too,” he said. 

National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) is likely to decide to reduce the gap between the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine and the precaution dose from nine to six months. The health ministry has received several representations seeking to allow the administration of the precaution dose of Covid vaccine to those who are compelled to travel urgently because of employment, for admission to foreign educational institutions, for participation in sports tournaments, as part of India’s delegation in bilateral or multilateral meetings, or for business commitments. 

As summer travel approaches, Lotus Destinations will conduct a quick webinar on Costa Cruises and Carnival Cruises, for the travel trade, today at 3 pm IST. Be Summer ready by attending this important webinar which will focus on the itineraries. To register, contact jaspreet.kaur@ddppl.com or 9650196532.