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Seychelles Tourism Board has announced the appointment of BRANDit as its official representative in India. BRANDit will handle marketing, sales and public relations for the island nation in the Indian subcontinent. Commenting on the appointment, Sherin Francis, CEO, Seychelles Tourism Board said, “We have commissioned BRANDit to plan our marketing and communication strategy in India. Various ideas have been chalked out to bring Seychelles tourism to a new dawn moving ahead with a fresh perspective. India is a promising market and its ever-evolving dynamic nature has always made it an exciting playing field for our outbound marketing efforts. Seychelles will serve as a safe haven and an exotic getaway for the pent-up travel demand among Indians. Despite a challenging 2020, we are positive to emerge through this phase stronger and better.”

Sarovar Hotels recently organised the third edition of Sarovar Virtual Showcase, focusing on Kerala as a destination, which showcased their three resorts in Kerala located respectively in Poovar Island, Thekkady and Vayalar. The participating tour operators ranged from states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala.

IndiGo has announced daily non-stop flights from Agra to Bengaluru, Bhopal an Lucknow respectively. The new flights will be effective from @8th March, 2021. The news was welcomed by the travel trade in Agra.

Korea Tourism Organization has announced an Online Korea Grand Sale 2021, Korea’s representative culture and tourism festival for travellers from January 14 to February 28, 2021. The online event is hosted by Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism and Visit Korea Committee to target foreign travellers. The Online Korea Grand Sale brings popular K-contents such as ‘Korean Tourism Product Purchase Promotion’ for travel to Korea, ‘Korea Online Video Program’ for local experience of Korea, and ‘Online Shopping Promotion’ providing special discounts.

Goa Tourism will be the single window and nodal department for granting permissions to all tourism events, according to new guidelines released by the State Government. Recently, Pramod Sawant, Chief Minister, Goa, had revealed that they are in the process of giving single window clearance for all permissions required for events.

ADTOI has announced that their 10th Annual Convention will be taking place from 12-14 February at Statue of Unity, with the support of Gujarat Tourism. The theme of the convention is Domestic Tourism – Hope For The Revival ‘Dekho Apna Desh’. To be held at the Convention Hall, Tent City 2, Kevadia, Gujarat. PP Khanna revealed that the convention is aimed at promoting domestic tourism and they have been in talks with Gujarat Tourism for a long time, and they will be together be promoting Kevadia as an upcoming domestic destination.

STB India Virtual Tradeshow 2021 ‘Charting Our Pathways to Tourism Recovery’, is set to kick-off for West India today, 19 Jan & East India on 21 Jan. Join us as 48 Singapore stakeholders comprising airlines, attractions, DMCs and hotels ready ourselves to prepare for the restart of travel and tourism. Register on www.stbindiatradeshow2021.com; Email: jaspreet.kaur@ddppl.com , or call +919650196532.

The Nautilus Maldives has appointed 1524 Delhi as their sales and marketing representatives in India. 1524 Delhi will be responsible for promoting The Nautilus within the Indian market. “As specialists in sales and marketing for luxury hotels and resorts, we are delighted to promote The Nautilus Maldives in India. We believe that the discerning Indian traveller will value this highly personalised and immensely private luxury bohemian hideaway in the Maldives,” says Aakriti Batra, chief executive and co-founder 1524 Delhi. The Nautilus is the only Relais & Châteaux private island resort in the Maldives. Offering life unbound, its collection of 26 immensely private beach and ocean houses exists beyond the bounds of time. Our private island in the Maldives is a place where nothing is fixed, and anything is possible. Where you are free to set your own beat. Free to do – and to be – as you please.

IATO, in association with TravTalk, is hosting a webinar today at 11:30 am, to educate attendees on new ideas in strategic cost cutting and its benefits. The speaker for the session will be Amol Bajaj, Head – Apprenticeship, Tourism & Hospitality Skill Council (THSC). To register, write to jaspreet.kaur@ddppl.com or call +91-9650196532.

India’s apex hotel association, FHRAI has appealed to Government of India to aggressively promote domestic tourism this year, and recommended that incentivising domestic tourism by offering tax exemption under Section 80C of up to Rs50,000 to Indian nationals will encourage them to travel, thus helping achieve the goal.