Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes off for the first time
Nok Air plans daily flights from Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi
Delta to start non-stop daily flight from Mumbai to Atlanta
Hilton Worldwide opens Hilton Garden Inn in New Delhi/Saket
The Old Course Hotel in UK named as ‘World’s Most Exclusive Hotel’ by Forbes Magazine
Jaipur-based Raj Palace hotel voted as ‘World’s Best Heritage Hotel’ by World Travel Awards
Eiffel Tower crowned as World's Favourite Landmark: Hotels.com survey
Ministry of Railways to introduce new class of trains called ‘Yuva Trains’ soon
Rome keen to offer direct air connections with India in 2010
Hong Kong Disneyland to develop three new theme areas
Singapore Airlines enhances mobile services with m.singaporeair.com
Canada introduces Express Business Visas for Indians
Over 30,000 Indians visited New Zealand during 2008-09
Jordan offers Visa-on-Arrival for FIT leisure traffic from India
Cleartrip includes Air India Express to its Flights Search option
JetLite to soon add hotel and car rental booking facilities on its portal
Armani Hotel Dubai at Burj Dubai to be officially launched in March 18, 2010
Oberoi Group to launch integrated resort in Mauritius
Westin Hotels and Resorts opens The Westin Mumbai Garden City in Goregaon, Mumbai
Emirates and Visa team up to offer free Tourist Visas during Dubai Shopping Festival 2010
Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas starts operations from Dubai
Singapore Airlines to introduce daily A380 services between Singapore and Zurich
British Airways offers all-cabin deal celebration offer on UK-India flights
Thailand-based Amari Hotels to foray into India with first property in Delhi by April 2010
Lavasa Corp. ties up with Langham Hotels and Oakwood International
Switzerland Destination Marketing ties-up with Minotel Hotels
Club Med India to launch Specialist Programme for travel trade in India
World Sport Destination Expo to be held in Johannesburg between July 5-9, 2010
Las Vegas, Mexico and Dominican Republic top travellers interest in 2010: TripAtlas.com
Aman Resorts Receive Top Awards for Excellence on Both Sides of the Atlantic
India’s leading B2B Travel & Tourism event SATTE takes off in Delhi on Jan 28th
Carlson Hotels to triple portoflio in India within three years
Oneworld woos JAL with US$2 billion offer
A new high-speed railway link could bring travellers from London to Madrid in just eight hours.
India Factfile
India is one of the oldest civilisations in the world with a kaleidoscopic variety and rich cultural heritage. It has achieved all-round socio-economic progress during the last 60 years of its Independence. India has become self-sufficient in agricultural production and is now the tenth industrialised country in the world and the sixth nation to have gone into outer space to conquer nature for the benefit of the people. It covers an area of 32,87,2631 sq. km, extending from the snow-covered Himalayan heights to the tropical rain forests of the south. As the 7th largest country in the world, India stands apart from the rest of Asia, marked off as it is by mountains and the sea, which give the country a distinct geographical entity. Bounded by the Great Himalayas in the north, it stretches southwards and at the Tropic of Cancer, tapers off into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west.
