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The flagship event of Kerala’s tourism apex forum KTM Society will be held from May 9 to 12, seeking to reach out to trade partners, stakeholders, and tourists. Tourism Minister Shri P.A. Mohamed Riyas will inaugurate Kerala Travel Mart 2023 (KTM 2023) through videoconferencing on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

The 8th edition of the Travel Wedding Show will be held from 24-25 June at Mementos by ITC Hotels, Ekaaya Udaipur. At the event, carefully hand-picked wedding planners indulge in pre-arranged one-on-one B2B meetings with exhibitors showcasing their products from across the country.

Sharing a concern of his members, Ajay Prakash, TAFI President, wrote to Kaushik Khona, CEO of Go First, requesting that the refunds for canceled flights be effected as a direct credit to the agents’ bank accounts, rather than being placed in a credit shell. He wrote, “It is not possible for them to refund the money until it is received from your airline. You do this and the entire travel agent fraternity will stand by you and completely support your airline as soon as it takes off again.”

Sharing a concern of his members, Ajay Prakash, TAFI President, wrote to Kaushik Khona, CEO of Go First, requesting that the refunds for canceled flights be effected as a direct credit to the agents’ bank accounts, rather than being placed in a credit shell. He wrote, “It is not possible for them to refund the money until it is received from your airline. You do this and the entire travel agent fraternity will stand by you and completely support your airline as soon as it takes off again.”

The 8th edition of Travel Wedding Show will be held from 24-25 June at Mementos by ITC Hotels, Ekaaya Udaipur. At the event, carefully hand-picked wedding planners indulge in through pre-arranged one-on-one B2B meetings with exhibitors showcasing their products from across the country.

Arvind Singh, Secretary, Tourism, has informed that the Kashmir TWG meeting will be held at the Sher-e-Kashmir Convention Centre in Srinagar in May. “We will do a side event on film tourism at Srinagar. We want to show India’s and Kashmir’s potential as a film tourism destination,” he informed. 

Post completion of phase 3A expansion work scheduled in 2023, Delhi airport will become the only Indian airport whose terminals would be able to handle 100 million passengers per annum (MPPA), said a release from DIAL.

Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa, said, “Through G20 each state is promoting its own district, product and culture and that is leading to every state becoming a brand by itself. The G20’s impact is that many states are building up their own brands to penetrate global markets.” 

Riaz Munshi, president, OTOAI said, “There is a significant change in travelling pattern, travellers are now taking multiple trips during the year. They prefer to travel for more number of days, explore newer destinations and uncover off-the-beaten track experiences”. 

KKR World, led by Kunal Kothari, has been awarded the mandate to represent Schilthorn Cableway in India market. Schilthorn Cableway is again dependent on expert support directly from the market. Kothari is representing the company in the Indian market since the beginning of April. The tourism expert from Mumbai has extensive and long-standing know-how in the European rail travel business. An estimated 1.42 billion people live on the Indian subcontinent; the potential of inhabitants willing to travel is therefore huge. The Schilthorn Cableway Ltd. has been active in the market for years, until 2016 this was always with the support of a representative directly on site. Now it is time to rely more intensively on additional support again: Since the beginning of April, Kunal Kothari from India is the new right-hand man of Alan Ramsay, Head of Markets at Schilthornbahn, on a 40-percent basis in all matters relating to the Indian market. “It is a great honour for us to have been able to engage Kunal Kothari for the Schilthorn Cableway,” Ramsay is pleased to say, “he brings with him a great deal of experience and knowledge in all aspects of rail travel.” Indeed, the Indian’s wealth of experience is immense: the 46-year-old from Mumbai completed a university degree in Travel & Tourism Industry Management at the end of the 1990s, worked for several years for the major tour operator Thomas Cook in Dubai before returning to Mumbai to work for over seven years as Regional Manager Sales & Marketing for Rail Europe India, the largest B2B distributor of train travel in Europe. In 2018, he founded his own company, KKR World, which specializes in consulting and representing select Swiss …