The Goa International Travel Mart (GITM) 2014 that will be held from April 2 to 4, at Taleigao is expected to be bigger than previous years. Goa tourism expects over 125 international buyers from USA, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Turkey, Italy, Czech Republic, Russia, Poland to take part in GITM, this year.
Tourism minister Dilip Parulekar said the platform will provide face-to-face networking among travel trade, hoteliers and other stakeholders from Goa with leading travel agents from India and abroad. He said efforts of the tourism department in promoting Goa as a great tourist spot, is slowly showing results. This season, the overall increase in tourist arrival has been 12.37% whereas the inflow of foreign tourists has gone up by 9.27%.
"We feel rise in tourist arrivals next season will be 18-20%," he said. Mr. Parulekar on Thursday launched the GITM website as well as the GITM mobile application. Nikhil Desai, tourism director, said that they expect to register about 1,000-1,500 travel agents and tour operators for GITM whereas last edition the registration was about 750.
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