TOURISM AND HOTEL INDUSTRY AWARENESS - December 2019
Dec 2019
Jan 25, 2020
Travel Ban Imposed in China's Wuhan
The authorities in Wuhan city in China where the coronavirus originated, have imposed a complete travel ban on local residents, in a bid to curb the spread of the deadly virus.
As per the ban, urban buses, subways, ferries and long-distance passenger transport would be suspended in the city.
Aside from this, flights and trains departing from Wuhan will also be suspended.
So far, the cases of the virus have been detected in the US, South Korea, Japan, and Thailand.
Jan 22, 2020
IHCL Signs a SeleQtions Hotel in Uttarakhand
Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL) announced the signing of a SeleQtions hotel – Pilibhit House in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. This hotel is in partnership with Prasad Heritage Pvt. Ltd.
Suma Venkatesh, Executive Vice President - Real Estate & Development, IHCL said that Haridwar, located on the banks of the River Ganga, is visited by thousands of pilgrims annually. With this new hotel, IHCL further strengthens its religious tourism portfolio of hotels. We are delighted to partner with Prasad Heritage Pvt. Ltd. The Company currently manages 12 hotels across cities through which the River Ganga flows.
IHCL has five hotels in the state of Uttarakhand, including two under development. Pilibhit House complements the existing religious and leisure circuit with IHCL's hotels in Corbett and Rishikesh.
Jan 20, 2020
Indian Railways To Replace Urdu With Sanskrit On Station Signboards In Uttarakhand
The Railway ministry is now doing its bit to promote the use of Sanskrit in Uttarakhand.
Railway officials have decided to replace Urdu language with Sanskrit on all signboards at platforms. The signboards which have names of railway stations written in Hindi, English and Urdu will now be written in Hindi, English and Sanskrit.
The decision, according to sources, has been taken as per provisions of the Railway Manual, which says that names of the railway stations should be written in Hindi, English and in the second language of the state.
Jan 19, 2020
First-Ever City-To-City Tourism Partnership
New York City's official destination marketing organisation, and Marketing Manchester signed a first-ever official city-to-city tourism collaboration agreement. The new two-year alliance includes a collaboration agreement between the two cities, the sharing of best practices in tourism marketing and a partnership with Virgin Atlantic to stimulate reciprocal travel.
Jan 18, 2020
South Africa Aims To Cross 100,000 Visitors from India in 2020
South African Tourism organised 17th edition of their Annual Road show. The road show intends to capitalise on the strong potential consumer demand in India in order to surpass the target of 100,000 Indian visitors to South Africa in the current year (2020).
India continues to remain one of our key focus markets globally and it is encouraging to observe consistent, upward growth from traditional regions like Mumbai, Delhi & Bangalore as well as rising visitor traffic from emerging cities like Pune. With more and more visitors citing South Africa's scenic natural beauty as reasons to visit, we are focused in our efforts towards opening up newer geographies in our country. This will serve a dual objective of catering to this very consumer demand as well as offering a diversity of itinerary options for our trade partners to sell.
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