Association News

» Hotels room rates slashed in most cities: FHRAI Survey

Jodhpur has the highest average room rates and Thiruvananthapuram the lowest ... Read more

» Wellness Tourism Roundtable to Take Place at The Dorchester, London on April 1, 2014

Wellness tourism is a USD 439 billion market, which is projected to reach USD 678.5 billion by 2017 ... Read more

» Travel agents fear more airline payment defaults as credit period halved by IATA

Aerojet Travels, a Delhi-based travel agent, could not pay around Rs 50 crore to airlines last month ... Read more

» Golf tourism summit to be held in Delhi from Oct 8-10 2014

Golf tourism is growing at 9.3 per cent a year and about 1.6 million people travel for golf tourism every year ... Read more

» Kerala becomes first Indian state to win top UN Award in Tourism

Won the UNWTO Ulysses Award for Innovation in Public Policy and Governance, the highest honour given to government bodies for shaping global tourism policies through innovative initiatives ... Read more

» International tourism exceeds expectations with arrivals up by 52 million in 2013

Demand for international tourism was strongest for destinations in Asia and the Pacific (+6%), Africa (+6%) and Europe (+5%) ... Read more

» Budget hotels should also be give infra benefits: FHRAI

Industry body says that the real growth drivers of industry are the small one star and two star budget hotels, which have a development cost starting from Rs 25 crore ... Read more

» Need to Gallop to attain 1% share in global tourist arrivals: Parvez Dewan

Some of the areas of concern for which collective action is needed are India’s image issue, visa regime, cleanliness, poverty, security, and over population ... Read more

» Hotels looking to rationalise employee-to-room ratio

The FHRAI report said the employee-to-room ratio in India is almost twice the global benchmarks ... Read more

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