Tag: IATO
IATO bats for announcement one-Visa/Tourist Visa, international flights dates
In view of the spate of positive developments on Covid-19 vaccines over the last week and announcement from the government officials that the vaccine...
Support the right bid, make ‘performance’ criteria
By SarabJit Singh
MD, Travelite (India), Former Sr. VP, IATO and Founder & Former Vice Chairman, FAITH.
The pandemic has decimated the tourism industry. Tens of...
Tourist traffic mapping, FTOs’ coding, essential to drive growth
Almost 11mn tourist (FTA) came to India last year. The International Tourist Arrival (ITA) which is calculated as FTA plus NRI arrivals was around...
Bringing ‘tourism exports’ under RoDTEP, need of the hour
By SarabJit Singh,
Managing Director, Travelite (India) a unit of KTC India Pvt Ltd., Former Sr. Vice President of Indian Association of Tour Operators and...
No plans, little seriousness, huge negative publicity overseas, MoT has no...
At a time when the whole travel and tourism industry is fighting for its survival, there is also a growing disappointment among the industry...
Path to 33 Million; Think differently, Act differently, Be inclusive
By Rajeev Kohli
Joint Managing Director, Creative Travel
I love my country. I am a proud Indian. But I am also pragmatic at times and that...
SEIS can unlock tourism potential towards PM’s vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat
Unlike other export sectors, services or merchandise, covered under SEIS and MEIS, for tourism exports, the SEIS scheme barely covers about a seventh of...
Misplaced priorities, war of words between associations detrimental to the crisis...
The recent spat amongst some of the associations have come as a rude shock of misplaced priorities, i.e., ‘the revival of tourism and hospitality...
Inbound Tour Operators of India initiates ‘Unlocking Tourism’
As India has entered into the ‘Unlock 3.0’ and many states are opening their destinations, the Inbound Tour Operator’s fraternity of India has come...
Need to look at creating short travel itineraries, Rupinder Brar-ADG Tourism
India has entered into the ‘Unlock 3.0’ and most of the states are opening their destinations by following the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued...