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| COVERSTORY |
Game Plan for 2009
This year will be one where tables will turn. While last year led to a period of transformation in many areas of business in the global and Indian travel industry, this year will witness an unprecedented surge of innovation as travel suppliers, grapple with the fall out of the economic crisis. TravelBiz Monitor talks to experts of various verticals of the industry to find out how to re-evaluate strategies and operate smarter.
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| IN CONVERSATION |
 “We plan to achieve 6, 00,000 Indian tourists by 2009”
Despite the global recession and financial meltdown, Malaysia has maintained its prominence as a preferred tourist destination amongst Indians. P Manoharan, Director, Tourism Malaysia in conversation with TravelBiz Monitor, talks about targets that have been met and what lies ahead in 2009
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| GUEST COLUMN |
 Search for Solutions
In early 2008, signs of an economic downturn emerged mainly due to aviation fuel hikes and higher air ticket costs and started impacting the entire world tourism industry. The tourism sector started further suffering from reduced consumer demand. Business and leisure tourism business felt the credit crunch due to the economic meltdown in USA, UK, Germany, France etc. Recent tourism forecast of UNWTO showed about 20-25 per cent of decrease in tourist arrivals worldwide. In India also the effect of the downturn was visible until the situation completely changed post Mumbai terror attacks.
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| ON RECORD |
Online Travel Market in India
At the recently held Travel Distribution India Summit 2008, Lemon Tree Hotel Company presented a brief on the online market in India. According to estimates, the online travel space will acquire about 23 per cent of the total travel in the country, which was at 11 per cent in 2007 and 15 per cent in 2008. It is known that major travel suppliers are moving their focus on online sales as the end consumers are increasingly booking online. The number of Internet users in India is growing at a high pace with about a billion searches per month. No doubt, India is one of the emerging markets for online players across the globe. This can also be proved from the improving infrastructure facilities in India.
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| This Week's Top Headlines |
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Jammu & Kashmir Tourism to develop ropeway to Patnitop
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The Directorate of Tourism, Government of Jammu and Kashmir is in the process to develop a ropeway project on Public-Private-Participation (PPP) model from Kud to Patnitop, state's famous tourist destination. The project will also be handled by Patnitop Development Authority (PDA). ...read more>> |
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Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board to promote Niti Valley |
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Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board (UTDB) recently decided to promote Niti Valley (located in the state on the old trade route to Tibet). K P Sharma, who is a member of the Board and also IATO chapter Chairman of Uttarakhand, conducted a detail study on Niti Valley and has suggested the addition of ...read more>> |
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