Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha, inaugurated the Odisha Travel Bazaar in Bhubaneswar. He announced that they have identified 17 priority destinations encompassing beaches, biodiversity zones, heritage monuments and areas of religious and cultural importance for integrated master-planning based development.

IATO has announced Ravi Gosain-Vice President as Chairman of its 37th convention in Lucknow. Sunil Mishra-Hony. Treasurer and Prateek Hira-Chairman, IATO Uttar Pradesh Chapter are the Co-Chairmen. IATO is expecting about 900-1000 delegates at the convention.

DGCA approves 21,941 departures per week from 105 airports in India under winter schedule, which is 13.3 per cent fewer flights from the summer schedule 2022 (25,309 flights) and 1.55 per cent fewer weekly flights than the 22,287 flights that were run during the last winter schedule.

Jammu and Kashmir has registered a tourist footfall of 1.62 crore for the first time in the history of 75 years of independent India. Reports have revealed that the tourism sector has seen a significant boost in April 2022 with the highest-ever record of 102 to and fro flights as well as around 15,199 average daily passengers.

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Zurich, Switzerland’s largest city, provides tourists with a plethora of accommodation options and access to numerous activities and experiences. Through this webinar, we will showcase Zurich and it’s various touristic offerings. Attend all webinars for a chance to win a trip to Switzerland. For more information, write to jaspreet.kaur@ddppl.com or 9650196532.

Sandeep Dwivedi, Chief Operating Officer, ITQ, has announced that they have signed a multi-year agreement with Cleartrip where we are going to empower a GDS connectivity on Cleartrip platform. “Our market share will increase, we will become a dominant player in the OTA  area where all OTAs will use our technology,” he said.

Alex Ellis, British High Commissioner to India, has said that the United Kingdom is on track to get back to processing Indian visa applications within its standard 15-day period. He also mentioned that they dealt with a great surge in demand for student visas, which is 89 per cent up on last year.

Pradeep Shetty, EC Member, FHRAI & President, HRAWI, has shared that CCI has imposed penalties of Rs.223 Cr and Rs.168 Cr on Go-MMT and Oyo for anti-competition practices. “This is by far one of the biggest wins for the hospitality industry against the dominance of the aggregators,” he said..

Arvind Singh, Secretary, Tourism, has said that India’s global tourism indices will go up by improving the safety and security aspects of tourism and would go a long way in making India one of the favourable destinations. He urged all the tourism stakeholders to work closely and strengthen the security aspect of the tourist destinations.