Thomas Cook said it is planning to install pre-fabricated toilets at tourist spots, starting with Ooty. This Pre-fabricated toilet units can be used free of cost and the units will be maintained by Thomas Cook India’s subsidiary, Sterling Resorts. These toilets will include an exhaust fans, hand-wash and air freshener. They will be cleaned every […]
Bangladesh sent the highest number of tourists to India, according to numbers for tourism arrivals for July this year. Bangladesh accounted for 17.3% of tourists arrivals followed by USA and UK contributing 16.5% and 11.67% respectively, said the tourism ministry. Bangladesh is the source of the largest number of illegal immigrants to India. Since the […]
Be it buying goods and supplies or enrolling your kid into a school, bargain hunting is the most common thing that an Indian would usually do and now it has reached a new level. Indians are now considered as the world’s largest holiday bargain hunters, according to a new research report. Indian travellers want infinite […]
Jet Airways has announced special summer holiday packages starting at Rs 15,620 for 4 days and 3 nights in Goa. The packs go all the way up to Rs 1.04 lakh for a five-day package to Paris. The holiday packages include a Jet Airways return economy airfare (inclusive of all taxes), airport transfers, three star […]
SpiceJet, India’s most headline-grabbing airline, has launched its Chennai-Bangkok flights with an offer of Rs 9,999 for a return flight to the Thai capital. This is currently the cheapest price available on the sector. Bangkok is a big destination for tourists from India. A couple of years ago, AirAsia had offered return flights from Chennai […]
Wego, a travel search site targeting the Asia Pacific and Middle East, is pushing low-cost options as a way to travel around the world for pleasure. Typically, it is very difficult to plan a travel around the world purely using low-cost carriers or LCCs as you need to know all the special ways to get […]
Due to low tariffs rates and discounts offered by hotels, resorts and airlines, India’s domestic tourism has gone up by 23.5% during the monsoon season as compared to 18.5% last year, said industry association ASSOCHAM. The ASSOCHAM survey reveals that there has been a surge in travel by Indians within the country in the last […]
Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Limited reported a 21% increase in its revenue to Rs. 231 Crores for the first quarter, while profit after tax rose 23% to Rs 25 Crores. Total number of new member additions increased 50% during the quarter compared to the same period last year. Total number of members were 186,000. […]
Air Seychelles has expanded its network reach into India by adding Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata to its codeshare agreement with Jet Airways. With these additional codeshare routes, Air Seychelles now offers connections to nine Indian cities on Jet Airways’ domestic network, including Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. Codeshare refers to an agreement by […]
According to a recent survey revealed by travel site Skyscanner, 59% of women travelers in India prefer spending more on food in preference to sight-seeing and adventure sports (18%), or even shopping (35%). “Skyscanner’s ‘Food and Spending’ survey discloses the habits of Indian travellers on the go. The survey also revealed that even though Matthi […]
Goa, India’s top holiday destination, saw a record number of visitors in October. Total arrivals hit 4,76,861 in the month, up 13.5% from previous year, thanks to a recovering economy in India. Domestic tourist arrivals for the month of October has surpassed last year’s figure recording a 13.8 per cent increase. Similarly, 11 per cent […]
India is the fourth most vacation deprived nation globally, according to Expedia’s 2014 Vacation Deprivation. 67% of Indians said they feel very or somewhat vacation deprived, the annual analysis of vacation habits said. 35% of the global respondents said they would take a cut in salary for extra vacation – highest among those in India […]
Singapore and China are among countries where interest is on the rise for Indian accommodations, according to a Tripadvisor survey that also found Japanese and Italians to be the least impressed by Indian hotels and accomodations. The rising interest is seen as a proxy for potential tourist opportunities.With traveller interest growing by 48 percent year-on-year, […]
Spicejet and holiday website TripFactory.com launched a combined website for booking holidays using SpiceJet’s flights and Tripfactory’s holiday packages. Called mySpiceTrip.com, the site will offer 100,000 holiday packages at up to 80% discount, SpiceJet said. The website will involve proposals and programs from real travel agents. “This is a unique product because the information, expertise, […]
