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 IN FOCUS

‘Celebrating Diversity’ of India

Despite global economic turmoil, terror attacks and high concerns on H1N1 Influenza, the global tourism industry is celebrating World Tourism Day with huge expectations. The 30th World Tourism Day will be hosted by UNWTO in Ghana on September 27, 2009 with the theme – ‘Celebrating Diversity’. TravelBiz Monitor speak to various Indian industry leaders about their perspective on the theme and its importance to the tourism industry in the country
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 IN CONVERSATION
'The need of the hour is to make a transition from a travel agent to a travel consultant’ - Rajji Rai, President, Travel Agents Association of India
Rajji Rai, President, Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) talks to TravelBiz Monitor about the choice of Dubai as the convention destination, focus of the convention and the need for the travel industry to innovate to survive during turbulent times
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 FOCAL POINT
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It’s going to be the new Sunrise Destination.

With a little bit of luck of course and also a fair amount of insight into what drives an Indian traveller. But, given the way that things are going, both, that luck and that insight are likely to home in soon. We’re talking about the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. We’ve just returned from an extended road tour of that unexpectedly fascinating land.
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HTM’s Tourism Fair postponed to December 19-20, 2009 due to state Assembly elections next month
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