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| IN CONVERSATION |
 ‘We are expecting 2,000 overnights from India by 2009’
Kuusamo Lapland, the Northern region of Finland is now looking at positioning itself as a potential tourism destination for India’s incentive market. Tuija Sulkinoja, Coordinator – International Tourism, Kuusamo Lapland, spoke to Anita Jain about the various strategies, target audience and future activities of Lapland in India to boost tourism in the region
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| VIEW POINT |
 ‘Agents should adapt the Transaction Fee model’
The Indian travel trade has seen and gone through various phases of evolution. It seems that we agents are now facing one of the most crucial changes to be adopted in the industry i.e. from being an agent to the airlines to being a travel consultant of the customer. It further implies that the agent would not depend on the commission from the airlines but will charge the customer a fee based on the services rendered.
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| This Week's Top Headlines |
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Tour agents concerned about inbound tourism future |
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With Mumbai coming under serious terrorist attacks, growth in the other wise booming tourism industry specially inbound tourists is at a stand still. The terror attacks witnessed a lot of travel agents cancelling air tickets, holiday packages and countries like US and Australia sending out
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FHRAI and IATO to rework three year old MoU |
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Federation of Hotel & Restaurant Associations of India (FHRAI) and Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) have mutually agreed to rework the existing ‘Agreement on Code of Practice’ signed between the associations three years ago. The two apex bodies had signed an
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Travelguru to diversify through hotel distribution |
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Travelguru is planning to diversify with different distribution options in their current business model which focuses on hotels. The company, which has an inventory of 4,000 Indian hotels across three, four and five star category, is planning to provide the inventory to global distribution
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Goa urges tourists to stay on, assures safety |
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Apprehending a dip in the number of tourists in Goa due to the terror attacks in Mumbai, Chief Minister of Goa, Digambar Kamat and Home Minister of Goa Ravi Naik, made a joint appeal to its visitors insisting that all steps were being taken to ensure their safety. “There is no need to panic
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US advises tourists to postpone travel to Mumbai |
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United States of America has advised tourist to postpone their travel to Mumbai for at least the next 48-72 hours due to the current terror attack in Mumbai, was informed by the latest travel advisory which was issued by the Consulate General of the United States of America
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Air traffic decline continues: IATA |
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced international air traffic for October 2008 showing a second consecutive month of global decline. International passenger traffic declined by 1.3 per cent compared to the same month in the previous year - a smaller ...read more>> |
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