This week we bring you a recap of the important news from 2014
The episode focuses on:
- Incredible India website touches 52,000 hits a day
- Dubai to levy tourism tax from March 31
- The prestigious South India Travel Awards were hosted in Hyderabad
- For the first time, the Ministry of Tourism, ITDC and FICCI co-organized the first edition of IITB in New Delhi
- With the new government in power, the ministry of tourism gets a new leader
- Singapore airlines brings the Airbus A380 to India
- Indians travelling abroad can now carry Rs. 25,000 in cash: RBI
- This week we take you the second session of the glamorous and glittering India Travel Awards West held in Pune
- Zakkir Ahmed is unopposed TAFI President for 2014-16 term
- “Cleanliness” to be a new category at National Tourism Awards says Tourism Minister
- PATA Travel Mart 2015 to be held in Bengaluru
- FHRAI hosts its 49th Convention in Jaipur
- KTM 2014 received 282 international buyers from 60 countries
- VKonect, India’s first focused outbound B2B meetings platform successfully conducted its maiden edition in New Delhi
- Dr. Lalit K. Panwar takes over as the Tourism Secretary
- This week we bring you the first edition of the prestigious India Travel Awards- East held in Kolkata on October 10
- Jehangir Katgara wins the WTM World Global Travel Leaders Award
- TravTalk TV interviews Dr. Mahesh Sharma, MoS for Tourism and Culture (Independent Charge)
- Visa on Arrival by Electronic Travel Authorisation has been launched for 43 countries by the Ministry of Tourism
- Jyotsna Suri takes over as the new President of FICCI
- Achievers of the travel industry were awarded at the India Travel Awards North