SRM Hotel, Chennai, a 60-room hotel has recently bagged ISO 9001:2008 Certification by Bureau Veritas Certification on behalf of International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). The hotel is ISO certified for the past three years and now it has been re-certified after upgrading its standards from ISO 9001:2000 to ISO 9001:2008. This certificate has been awarded [...]
A special tourist train will be operated from Mysore to Kolkata to enable tourists participate in the Dasara, according to a report in the Times of India. The train, to be run by the Indian Railway Catering Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), will leave Mysore on September 29, 2011 and cover famous tourist hotspots like Darjeeling, Gangtok, [...]
Orly (France): An airport in France is experimenting with ‘virtual’ boarding agents in a bid to jazz up its terminals with 21st century avatars who always smile, don’t need breaks and never go on strike. The pilot project at Paris’ Orly airport began last month, and has so far been met with a mix of [...]
Mumbai: Rakesh Anandpara boards the one-hour flight from Mumbai to Rajkot at least once a week. The entrepreneur, who owns foundry units in Rajkot, has business interests in Mumbai as well, so work means shuttling between the two cities by air or rail. In the last two weeks though, he says, he has been flying [...]
Mumbai: The extended weekend of Independence Day is over but the next two weekends also have multiple holidays, prompting many Mumbaikars to pack their bags and head to nearby getaways. Even Goa and Kerala are sold out due to heavy tourist rush. Consequently, air fares to these places are soaring by the day. The Parsi [...]
Regional Airports-Holdings International Limited (RAHI), a joint venture between IL & FS Transportation Networks Limited (ITNL) and Comet Infra-Developments Private Limited (CIDPL), recently said its two private regional airports under development in Shimoga and Gulbarga will be operational by mid-2012. RAHI also has a unique business model involving aviation infrastructure, air services and geo-specific industry [...]
Spree Hotels & Resorts Pvt Ltd, a start-up hospitality venture has made its entry into the Pune market with its maiden property launch Spree Lotus Valley. The hotel is located in Pimpri, and has a total of 42 rooms. Dining options include Feast Café and Lounge and a rooftop restaurant Elevate, according to a media [...]
Greenpark Hotels & Resorts Ltd plans to increase its room inventory up to 616 rooms by October, this year and up to 736 rooms by next year. This information was given by Mohan Krishna, Vice President Operations, Green Park Hotels & Resorts Ltd. According to a report in The Hindu Business Line, the company is [...]
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) has decided to initiate one more travel mart, one dedicated to Domestic Tourism. From next year, FICCI will organise this mart christened as Great Domestic Tourism Bazaar (GDTB) in New Delhi every August. It will be on the lines of FICCI’s successful inbound mart, [...]
The Pacific Asia Travel Association’s (PATA) annual travel trade event, PATA Travel Mart 2011, scheduled to be held from September 6 to 9, 2011 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, will witness a thousand delegates and 310 buyers from fifty countries. The mart will showcase a variety of Indian and international travel and tourism products [...]