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 IN FOCUS

GTM 09 witnesses largest ever Indian participation
Against the backdrop of an overall forecast of a two per cent dip in overnights stays this year, Germany Travel Mart held last month was marked by high quality of sales meetings and festivities. It hosted nearly 360 exhibitors, 1,400 participants from 43 countries including 17 tour operators from India, the largest contingent ever from the country.
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 IN CONVERSATION
‘Domestic tourism will increase and India will be the first country to recover from financial crisis’ - Rakesh Lamba, President, ADTOI
Former sales and marketing professional serving top positions in multi-national companies in India and with 18 years experience as a domestic tour operator, Rakesh Lamba the newly elected President of Association of Domestic Tour Operators of India (ADTOI) talks to TravelBiz Monitor, about new plans and targets of the association

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 GUEST COLUMN
Winning in a downturn – Tactics to survive and thrive in turbulent times By Rohit Talwar, CEO, Fast Future
TravelBiz Monitor presents excerpts from the paper on the theme, ‘Winning in a Downturn,’ which the author will be presenting during a seminar at the QE II Centre in London on June 22, 2009. Talwar has drawn on Fast Future’s current research on Winning in a Downturn to share a number of strategies and tactics that businesses of all sizes can implement to survive the current turbulence and secure the future. Talwar will be elaborating these with practical case examples at the seminar.
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This Week's Top Headlines
FWM diversifies into luxury travel offering
  Finewinesnmore (FWM) has diversified its portfolio from premium international food, beverage marketing and distribution with the introduction of a luxury travel offering 'Italy by Élan'. The travel product is primarily designed for the Indian market and is a Joint Venture between FWM and ...read more>>
  
Chandigarh administration mulls special inter-state tax-free tourist cabs
 

The Union Territory (UT) Administration, Chandigarh is mulling on a model to make the city a tourist hub from where visitors can visit Kurukshetra, Anandpur Sahib, Patiala, Shimla or any other destination within a radius of 100km with the launch of some specially-approved tourist cabs, which ...read more>>

  
TAT calls India rising star from the Asian market at TTM plus 2009
  Projecting India among groups of significant inbound markets, Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) called it a rising star from the Asian market at the Thailand Travel Mart Plus 2009 which concluded yesterday. ...read more>>
IATA forecast global loss of USD nine billion in 2009
  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) revised its airline financial forecast for 2009 to a global loss of USD nine billion. This is nearly double the Association’s March estimate of a USD 4.7 billion ...read more>>
  
Go India Journey opens office in USA
  Go India Journey opened their office in USA last month. The new office serves the travel and tours industry in Canada, Mexico and US. “The opening of this office demonstrates Go India Journey’s confidence ....read more>>
  
Luxurious adventure, new buzzword in tourism
  An adventure sojourn during the day and evenings filled with luxury and indulgence is the new trend travel operators across the country are offering to woo domestic, as well as international travellers. Luxurious ...read more>>
  
Air India may enter no-frill segment in domestic sector through Air India Express
  According to a PTI report, Air India may now enter the no-frill segment in the domestic sector to beat the downturn in the aviation industry after Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines launched their all-economy ...read more>>
  
Pioneers in Heritage Tourism, Samode family plans to add new facilities to its existing properties
  The pioneers in Heritage Tourism, royal family of Samode in Rajasthan, is adding facilities and capacity to its existing properties, as well as coming up with a new one. The Samode name has been synonymous ...read more>>
  
Saudi Arabia-based LCC Nasair plans India operations by year end
  Saudi Arabia-based Low Cost Carrier (LCC) Nasair, owned by private aviation group National Air Services (NAS), has strong plans to start India operations by year end or early 2010. The airline is the country’s first ...read more>>
  
Thailand reworking marketing strategy to win back visitors
  In a bid to revive tourist arrival numbers to the destination, Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is reworking parts of its marketing and promotion strategy. Speaking at the launch of Thailand Tourism Market (TTM) ...read more>>
  
Jet Airways Konnect to add 30 new flights effective June 13, 2009
  Commencing June 13, Jet Airways' all economy service, Jet Airways Konnect will add 30 new flights in its current schedule of 62 daily flights. Jet Airways said with the launch of these new services, Jet Airways ....read more>>
  
Craved 15th Century images on Kalajhari Hill at Debatamura in Tripura attracting tourists
  According to a PTI report, after being lying hidden from the view of travellers for centuries, exquisite images of Hindu gods and goddesses carved in 15th Century on Kalajhari Hill at Debatamura in Tripura’s Southern ....read more>>
  
Kuoni, Cox & Kings and Club Med launch Gourmet tours to France
  Experiential Tourism is the latest trend, which is fast picking up in the Indian market with travellers now being open to experience the destination rather than only seeing it. In order to cater to this trend, travel stakeholders ....read more>>
  
HP to organise Tourism Conclave and Shimla Mega Mart from June 12-15, 2009
  The Department of Tourism and Civil Aviation, Government of Himachal Pradesh in association with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry will organise a Tourism Conclave and Shimla Mega Mart under ....read more>>
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