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Spring break and summer vacation are on the horizon, and many families are planning road trips and family travel over the next several months. With Dream Dinners‘ 16 years of experience helping families spend more time together through assembled meals, they’ve learned a few tricks for making family travel less stressful and less expensive, too. Photo Courtesy: vuelio Consider a vacation rental over a hotel. Having access to an entire home means use of a fully stocked kitchen, the ability to store ingredients for homemade meals, and being able to enjoy breakfast, lunch, and dinner together around the table more ... Read more

Emaar Entertainment, the leisure and entertainment subsidiary of Emaar Properties, has opened VR Park, Dubai’s latest and most exciting attraction, at The Dubai Mall. Blurring the lines between perception and reality, VR Park combines Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (VR), providing unforgettable rides, journeys and games in an unbelievable two-storey attraction. Through partnerships with some of the world’s leading VR developers, Emaar Entertainment is delivering unprecedented and awe-inspiring experience, with the all-new mind-blowing attraction set to transform the VR leisure and entertainment landscape through the breadth of games, rides and experiences to suit all ages. At VR Park, feel like you’re ... Read more

Paytm, India’s mobile-first financial services platform, has become a household name in the country within a short span. Understanding the potential of Paytm and its reach among 300 million active users, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has recently entered into a strategic partnership with Paytm to joint run promotions on its platform to promote Singapore tourism. This deal has made STB the first National Tourism Organisation (NTO) to partner with Paytm. Paytm will be offering up to Rs 2,500 cashback on flight tickets to Singapore booked through the app. The Paytm platform will house a microsite featuring Singapore’s new, inside-out, ... Read more

Photo Courtesy: thesun “Good guys go to heaven, bad guys go to Pattaya” are the words etched in the hearts of many when they hear about Pattaya, the much-famed tourist destination in Thailand. But, Gen Prayukt, the Prime Minister of the country is all set to change the image of Thailand from the globetrotters. It’s high time Thailand looks for quality travellers than the quantity. “We have to accept that some people make a living from this kind of occupation. Therefore, we have to help solve the problems both in the careers and income of these people. More importantly, we ... Read more

Picture for representational purpose only With an aim to familiarise popular destinations in Madurai, the Tourism Department of the state is all set to take financially poor students for a one-day trip around favourite spots in Madurai for free. The department will select eligible students from various schools before taking them for the trip. As many as 150 select students will travel on three buses on the tour day. Madurai district collector K Veera Raghava Rao would inaugurate the tour at Tamil Nadu Hotel in Alagarkovil Road. The students would be taken to Alagarkovil, World Tamil Sangam building, Gandhi Museum, ... Read more

Goa’s all-time vibrant Hindu festival known as the Shigmo Fest is all set to be held from 3rd to 17th March. This year a majestic display of Goan ethnicity and mythology will be displayed by talented performers, along with folk songs and dances. The main attraction of the event is the Shigmo Parade, that signifies a religious Hindu festival which includes colours, music, dance and float. The festive mood is further enhanced by decorating streets vibrantly. On behalf of the event, the tourism ministry of Goa is expecting over thousands of tourist arrival to the state, after the Goan Carnival, that demonstrates ... Read more

Photo Courtesy: indiatv Finally, the tourists/pilgrims who throng the famed Saptashrungi Devi hilltop temple in Nasik, Maharashtra, will be able to hop on India’s first Funicular Trolley from March 4 onwards. The project was announced in January 2010. The trolley will zoom up the 1,400 metres tall Saptashrungi Hills in the picturesque north end of Western Ghats to the temple atop. It will have an elevation of almost 330 feet and will enable pilgrims to reach the top of the hill within three minutes. At present, the pilgrims will take anything between one and two hours to climb the 150 ... Read more

With an aim to promote adventure and snow tourism in Bhaderwah Valley, the Bhadarwah Development Authority (BDA) in collaboration with Jammu Kashmir Tourism Department and Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering (JIM) is planning to organise a week-long training workshop from March 19. Besides being a wonderful destination for leisure and summer tourism, Bhaderwah has got ample scope for adventure and snow tourism as well and they have been demanding that snow sports and other adventure activities should be projected and promoted to attract tourists round the year. “Bhaderwah can become a haven for adventure tourism and to tap this potential, we ... Read more

The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment and the Ramsar Convention Secretariat have signed an agreement to host a major conference on wetlands in October in Dubai in October. The ‘Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP13)’ will be hosted in cooperation with Dubai Municipality, the official sponsor, from October 21 to 30. The MoU was signed by Sultan Alwan, assistant undersecretary of the regions sector at the ministry, and Jonathan Barzdo, deputy secretary-general, Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. “The UAE’s regional and international efforts in supporting high biodiversity and maintaining sustainable natural ... Read more

As part of its 71st foundation day celebrations, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), India’s biggest research centre for fisheries, is opening its doors for the people to explore and understand the latest research, as well as possibilities of the underwater marine ecosystem on 3rd February, 2018. Photo Courtesy: cmfri.org.in The programs will showcase exhibitions as well as education-related contents for the students inside the marine biodiversity museum. Some of the exhibits include whale shark, dolphin, sea cow, sunfish, poisonous fishes, penguin, sea snakes, starfishes, seahorse, lionfish, different types of algae, followed by the display of an electron microscope that can magnify objects for up ... Read more

February 2nd is considered World Wetlands Day. This day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Each year since 1997, the Ramsar Secretariat has provided materials to help raise public awareness about the importance and value of wetlands. The international theme for World Wetlands Day 2018 is ‘Wetlands for a sustainable urban future’. The Ramsar Convention Secretariat has developed a number of downloadable World Wetlands Day materials for 2018, including posters, infographics, Power Point presentations, fact sheets and a t-shirt ... Read more

Photo Courtesy: kumarakom.com Kumarakom, in Kerala, is selected to develop as one of the 10 iconic tourist destinations in India, which is presented in the annual Union Budget for 2018-19, by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. He said this can be achieved by adopting a holistic approach of development with the support of the private sector. During the budget announcement on February 1, the minister said that the Central Government would like to convert 10 popular tourist destinations into iconic and model destinations. These iconic places will be developed as model destinations with the help of private partnership. Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, ... Read more

It was a proud moment for Subash Palekar, a farmer in Belora village in the district of Amaravati, Maharashtra, after winning Padmashri for his Zero Budget Natural Farming Model back in 2016. Subash Palekar, a BSc graduate in Agriculture, was known as ‘Krishi ka Rishi’ by fellow farmers. Palekar had always kept this in mind that  using chemical fertilizers is not only bad for health but also result in a drop in the yield. Palekar religiously researched about the concept of zero farming and only after 3 long years of research he could find that the chemical fertilizers are spoiling ... Read more

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley delivered his fifth budget today. Here’s a look at what’s in it for tourism… Proposal to develop 10 prominent tourist destinations as Iconic tourism destinations and two tourist areas under the Swades Darsan – Rs 1100 crore Proposal to develop 10 prominent tourist destinations as Iconic tourism destinations and the development of 3 heritage sites under Prasad Project – Rs 150 crore To continue the light and sound shows in 5 protected sites and to complete the development works to improve basic infrastructure in 4 ports, 25 railway stations and 3 station in the Konkan belt ... Read more

Jodrell bank, a British observatory situated at the Lower Withington, United Kingdom, has been nominated as the UNESCO world heritage site. Built-in 1945 by Sir Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer, the observatory was built to investigate cosmic rays. It manages a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell bank centre for Astrophysics. The main telescope in the observatory is the Lovell Telescope, which is the third largest turntable telescope followed by Mark 2, grade 1 and grade 2. Photo Courtesy :Youtube.com Last year a couple of other sites were declared by UNESCO from the UK that includes Kew ... Read more