Kerala will impose a 14-day quarantine on all air travelers except those who are coming for “one or two days” for “business requirements”, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. The statement brings some clarity on the question of what happens to quarantine rules when domestic air travel is restarted on Monday. “The same rules that apply […]
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant today said that if the nationwide lock-down is lifted next week, his state would face an unwelcome situation of having to deal wtih Coronavirus-positive travelers from other parts of the country. His comments come in the wake of the Goan government urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday to extend the […]
Vishwajit Rane, minister in charge of health, industry and trade in Goa, has said that mass gatherings in his state should be banned for the next six to seven months and that he expects the state’s tourism sector to remain more or less dormant during this period. “Mass gatherings, any kind of religious gatherings, prayers […]
Several cases of foreign tourists starving and sleeping rough have come up in the last two days in Kerala as hotels and restaurants turn away anyone with white skin over fears of Coronavirus. The most striking is the case of Selena, from France, and Mauro, from Italy. The couple, who had been roaming around in […]
Low-cost carrier SpiceJet announced four new daily flights connecting Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram with Male and Chennai, and announced promotional fares on the routes. Under the promotional scheme, the 12:30 PM Thiruvananthapuram-Male flight is priced at Rs 5,539 and the return flight, starting at 2:45 PM, is priced at Rs 7,091. Similarly, the flight to Chennai, […]
Travel services company Thomas Cook said it will offer holiday packages in which only 20% of the total travel cost has to be paid up front, and the remaining can be paid in no-cost EMIs. Thomas Cook said that it will offer two packages — four holidays (two domestic and two overseas) in two years […]
Travel services company Thomas Cook said it will offer special deals to customers to Sentosa, an island resort in Singapore, following the signing of a three-year strategic agreement with Sentosa Development Corporation Sentosa Development Corporation (SDC) is a statutory board in Singapore, under the purview of the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Established in 1972, […]
Cox and Kings’ unit Meininger Hotels said it will construct a 126-room hotel in Bremen, Germany. The new hotel, scheduled to open in 2022, will have 378 beds in an area of 5,100 square metres on 11 floors. The hotel is located near Bremen’s Old Town and central station, the travel and tourism company said. […]
The Thomas Cook (India) said it will prepay about Rs 67 cr of corporate bonds to make the standalone company debt-free by the end of this month. It said it will also pay off short-term debts using the proceeds of an offer for sale of its shares. This, said the travel and tourism company, will […]
Club Mahindra, the holiday company owned by Mahindra & Mahindra, said it purchased two non-operating companies that have started ‘villa construction’ business in Sweden. The acquisition of the companies were done at a nominal price of 50,000 Swedish Kronas (Rs 4 lakh) each. The two companies were established recently, in October last year, under Swedish […]
Bangladesh beat USA to emerge as the top source of tourists to India in January. The country contributed 16.4% of India’s foreign tourists for the month, followed by USA with 14.1% and UK with 10.8%. Delhi International Airport accounted for the highest number of foreign tourist entries into India, with 28% of all foreign tourists […]
The Indian government has awarded all the contracts under the India-Myanmar-Thailand highway over the last three months and the highway is likely to be ready in three years, the external affairs ministry said. “Government of India is implementing two projects as part of Trilateral Highway between India, Myanmar and Thailand. These are construction of 69 […]
Anila Singh, one of the official spokespersons of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh, today said that Taj Mahal was a controversial monument and that its roots stretched back to a temple of Shiva. Singh, who is often on TV to defend the Yogi Adityanath government, was responding to questions about why the monument […]
Cox & Kings-powered adventure company Trip 360˚ organized a unique outing in Rabale in Navi Mumbai. Unlike regular hikes and treks, this one was not just focused on enjoying nature, but also preserving it. The plantation was done at Tetavli, Rabale. The site which was initially a barren land is being worked upon by Hariyali […]
SpiceJet has become the first airline to conduct flight services to Pondicherry, the former French colony that is a prominent tourist attraction in South India. The flights will be from Hyderabad. With this new flight, Puducherry will be connected with Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Tirupati, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Vijaywada and Varanasi with convenient onward connections […]
In an effort to boost tourism in its home town of Abu Dhabi, government-controlled Etihad Airways announced a set of freebies and packages for passengers transiting through the Gulf city. The biggest freebies are for first class passengers. They will get two free nights at any of the 60 hotels with which the airline has […]
India’s first terminal dedicated for cruise ships on its east coast will be ready in Chennai this month, the shipping ministry said. This will make it the fifth such cruise terminal in the country. All four existing cruise terminals are located on India’s western coastline, targeting ships that come in from the Middle East and […]
Thomas Cook, one of leading travel consultants, said it has launched an outlet in Rudrapur city in Uttarkhand under its new Mini format. The Rudrapur outlet has been designed optimising space and will be manned by a two member team, equipped with technology via mobile devices for seamless online connectivity to central systems thereby facilitating […]
Thomas Cook India’s Centre of Learning said it signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation to impart learning programmes in Madhya Pradesh. The project, named as ‘Explore Madhya Pradesh’, will impart learning via engaging modules to over 660 travel agents, covering 20 cities pan India in the next two months. On […]
With a share of almost 17%, Maharashtra has emerged as the top state in terms of attracting investments in the hotels and tourism industry across India, noted a just-concluded study by apex industry body ASSOCHAM. Maharashtra has attracted investments worth over Rs 15,500 Cr of the total outstanding investments worth over Rs 93,400 Cr attracted […]
