The curtains have come down on the Great Indian Travel Bazaar (GITB) that grew leaps and bounds over the last six years putting Rajasthan on the global tourism map. The annual inbound travel trade show on the calendar of international foreign tour operators, co-organized in April every year by FICCI and the Department of Tourism, Rajasthan and Ministry of Tourism is now up for a bid from firms and re-scheduled for August 2014. The travel mart, if at all it is organized, would be called Jaipur International Travel Bazaar and not GITB.
After the first edition of GITB, a memorandum of understanding was signed between FICCI and the department of tourism for five years. "The GITB was a concept suggested by FICCI and the name was jointly registered between the two. The then minister tourism Bina Kak announced at the GITB 2013 inaugural that the seventh edition of GITB would be organized in Jaipur in 2014 and the dates would be announced in due time. We had been following it up with the department regarding the memorandum but so far, there has been no development. Now there is very little time to put GITB together," said Gyan Prakash, director FICCI Rajasthan.
According to sources, the tourism department is keen on being transparent about the bidding for the event. So, they have now come up with an advertisement inviting 'Expression of Interest', re-christening the fair as Jaipur International Travel Bazaar 2014 scheduled to be organized from 9-10 August and the last day of submitting the bids is somewhere in January as per reports.
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