Procedures for purchasing a double-decker boat have been completed, the terminal can be used by the private boat operators as well and will act as ferry service office ... Read more

Visa restriction of re-entry within 60 days also to be relaxed; VoA could include Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Brazil and South Africa ... Read more

Local Advisory Committee headed by the district collector with tourism stakeholders as its members have been given powers to select and recommend places for development ... Read more

Project to showcase traditional villages, tea gardens, rivers, mountains, indigenous communities, arts and crafts, language, and others; Golf Course & Science city proposed in Sonapur ... Read more

The gender park will have accommodation facilities, a library, internet service and other recreation centres with prime concern given to the security of foreign women tourists, who often feel insecure ... Read more

A helicopter was pressed into service and all of them were rescued ... Read more

About 24,61,298 tourists including 32,438 foreigners visited Ooty in 2011 ... Read more

The travel and tourism industry generated 7.5 million jobs and 2.7 per cent of US GDP in 2010 ... Read more

To appoint India Tourism Marketing Reps in Russia, Brazil, South Korea, Sweden, Spain, Thailand, Israel, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Iran & Switzerland ... Read more

Currently the Visa-on-Arrival facility, which is extended to 11 countries, is available only at four international airports at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai ... Read more