Category: India Travel News
India Travel & Tourism News for visitors. India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world.
India Tourism: Change at the top
The Ministry of Tourism for the Government of India announced a new Secretary has been named. Arvind Singh will step into the position beginning February 1, 2021. Read More
Russia resumes passenger flights with four countries
Russia re-launches air service with Qatar, India, Vietnam and Finland Read More
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts expands in India
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts opens Wyndham Ahmedabad Shela hotel in Gujarat Read More
Ayurveda Tourism: The right time for healing is now
The Government of India is pushing for Ayurveda Tourism which focuses on healing and wellness as the absolute right time to be promoted considering the global health issues due to ... Read More
India skies in need of expansion
India must welcome increased air capacity in order for tourism to receive a much-need boost. To this end, a few carriers have indicated the beginning of new service. Specifically, the ... Read More
India travel agents appeal for urgent vaccinated travelers protocol
The officers of the Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) are making an urgent appeal to the Minister of Civil Aviation and Minister of Tourism to establish protocols for travelers ... Read More
Russia resumes Qatar, India, Vietnam and Finland flights
Russian airlines restart flights to four more countries Read More
India aviation manufacturing: Time to move from generics to specifics
India is looking at beefing up the aviation industry through aerospace components manufacturing. As aircraft need to be maintained and repaired, this industry can grow exponentially as the country is ... Read More
India asks airlines not to fly Chinese passengers into the country
Indian authorities have informally requested all domestic and international air carriers not to fly any Chinese passengers into India. India's strong retaliatory move comes after China’s not-so-subtle push to stop ... Read More
India Bids Farewell to Madame Tussauds
Madame Tussauds, the world famous wax museum, is closing up shop in Delhi, India, where it entered just 3 years ago in 2017. The popular museum is located in the ... Read More
AirAsia India Stakes Sold for $38 Million
Air India has been in the news recently regarding being sold by the government. Air India, headquartered in New Delhi, India, is the flag carrier airline of the country. It ... Read More
India, COVID and Travel: Leaders on 2021
Call it kite flying, a gut feeling, studied analysis, or just a shot in the dark. Any description of how India, COVID and travel will behave in the coming year ... Read More
Maharashtra Tourism: Mission Begin Again
“We wanted to build the hospitality industry as a core industry for the state. Likewise, with the event industry. Maharashtra has no dearth of talent and no dearth of audiences ... Read More
Star Air flies nonstop to Surat from Belagavi and Ajmer
Star Air, after running successful operations in Ahmedabad, has now expanded its wings further, by launching its services to one more city of Gujarat. This airline vertical of prominent Indian ... Read More
Minister Comments on Maharashtra Tourism Post-COVID
Minister for Tourism, Environment, Protocol, Government of Maharashtra, Aditya Thacker Mr. Aditya Thackeray, today said that the region will see a major boost in tourism in the post-COVID era. Addressing ... Read More
New India-Nepal Travel Bubble
Continuing its efforts to boost air connectivity during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new India-Nepal travel bubble has been added to India's network under air travel bubble agreements. The Himalayan nation ... Read More
Tourism Benefits from Agra Metro Project
Agra, the city of the iconic Taj Mahal, will be nearer the metro route as Prime Minister N. Modi launched the Agra Metro project, today, December 7, 2020. The project ... Read More
Indian Diaspora Studies in India
Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) who live in the Caribbean, and in the Caribbean diaspora, are descendants of indentured, immigrant labourers. They were brought by the British, Dutch, Danish and ... Read More
Accor expands with new hotels in India and Turkey
Accor, an augmented hospitality group, has added India and Turkey to its Middle East & Africa region. The newly expended region will now comprise of a portfolio of more than ... Read More
India Travelers More Likely to Fly this Holiday Season
A recently-conducted study to identify the travel intent among India travelers reveals that while the demand for travel post COVID-19 has been recovering slowly, there is optimism for travel over ... Read More
IATO Asks Government for Restoration of Tourist Visas
India travel industry players continue to make great efforts to see that tourism gets back on track once the COVID-19 pandemic is over. In the latest news, the Indian Association of ... Read More
India Travel Industry: No relief, no incentives
The India travel industry continues to be disappointed at the way it is being treated by its own government, even though travel and tourism is one of the largest employers ... Read More
How to Survive and Revive Travel and Hospitality
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has come up with a list of recommendations on how to survive and revive travel and hospitality in the current ... Read More
Branded Hotels Revival Looking Up
Branded hotels are becoming the front-runners to capture the first tranche of demand revival. The outbreak of COVID-19 resulted in one of the biggest setbacks for the global economy. Although ... Read More
India Travelers Already Have Plans
Conducted in October 2020 with most respondents belonging to major metropolitan cities in India, a survey conducted by FICCI and Thrillophilia across India was aimed towards understanding the post-COVID preferences ... Read More
Skal International Goa named Skal Club Of The Year 2020
The 81st Skal World Congress was held on 17th October 2020 where Skal International Goa ( 691 ) was announced as the best of the best winning Skal Club Of ... Read More
India Economy Set to Bounce Back After COVID-19
President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), Dr. Sangita Reddy, said yesterday that the India economy and the strategy of dealing with the COVID-19 crisis ... Read More
Alliance Air Appoints First Woman CEO
Harpreet Singh has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India (AI). She becomes the first woman to head an Indian airline. Harpreet Singh was ... Read More
India Air Travel Enters New Era
India air travel entered a new era today, October 31, 2020, with the launch of a seaplane service. This is the first ever water aerodrome at Kevadia, a town in ... Read More
Indian hotelier chiefs: Paradigm shift in global hospitality trends but its only temporary
Key players in the Indian hotel market came together at a recent Industry awards event - they shared their experiences and spoke of the way forward. The key take-aways one ... Read More
The India-Germany Tourism Connection
The Director for India of the German National Tourist Office (GNTO), Romit Theophilus, said they are planning a series of events in the latter part of the year to tell ... Read More
India Bids Farewell to Tourism Leader
The passing away of B. Venkataraman in Delhi, India, on October 20 removes from the scene an IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer, who headed the Tourism and Civil Aviation Ministry ... Read More
Reviving India Tourism: Taking it to the Streets
The India Minister of Tourism, Government of Odisha, Mr. Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi and the Minister of Tourism, Odia Language, Literature & Culture, Government of Odisha, yesterday said that effective coordination ... Read More
‘Worst rains in 100 years’ kill 15, displace hundreds in India’s Hyderabad
India's Hyderabad, the capital of southern Telangana state, and home to some of the country’s major IT companies and over 6.8 million people, has seen nearly 10 inches of rainfall over ... Read More
FICCI Launches Taskforce on Ayurveda Tourism
India Tourism stakeholders believe that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need for promoting the use of natural remedies to boost immunity and stay healthy. This ... Read More
Delhi Restaurants Get Reprieve from COVID-19
It seems that years of sustained efforts on the part of Delhi restaurants and the hospitality industry are finally showing positive results, which will help with job creation and boost ... Read More