WBTDC tie-ups with two STB’s and private travel companies to promote tourism products

West Bengal Tourism Development Corporation (WBTDC) has tied-up with State Tourism Boards (STB’s) such as Jammu and Kashmir and Andhra Pradesh, as well as private travel companies such as Thomas Cook and MakeMyTrip.com to promote their tourism products through its website and vice versa. The Corporation will soon give a Uniform Resource Locater (URL) of these associates in its website www.westbengaltourism.gov.in. Currently the website offers Karnataka tourism’s URL. This information was provided by T V N Rao, Managing Director, WBTDC.  Rao mentioned that WBTDC website which offers online booking facility for all its hotel properties in the state is in the process of promoting hotel property stakeholders in the state through its website.

Talking about the development of various tourism infrastructure in the state, Rao informed that the state tourism department has divided West Bengal into three tourist circuits, firstly Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri wherein the state tourism department largely promotes wildlife besides heritage;