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UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili has appointed Shanzhong Zhu as Executive Director of UNWTO. Zhu, a Chinese national, began his two-year term on 1 January 2018. Zhu joined UNWTO in 2014 as Executive Director. Prior to his appointment, he was Vice Chairman of China National Tourism Administration (CNTA).  

Camel Race India will be the “guest of honour” at Saudi Arabia’s National Festival for Heritage and Culture, popularly known as the Janadriyah festival.  The 18-day cultural festival will be held under the patronage of King Salman at Janadriyah, 42 km northeast of Riyadh, will be inaugurated on February 7. A high-level ministerial delegation will visit Riyadh for the inaugural ceremony. A diverse spread of India’s culture and science will be on display at Janadriyah festival, from Bollywood to traditional culture and from classical dance to technological prowess. The Indian pavilion will be embellished with cutting-edge technology displaying the march of India ... Read more

Photo Courtesy: Dubai Tourism Jumeirah Group, the global luxury hotel company and a member of Dubai Holding, announced the launch of Zabeel House by JumeirahTM. This exciting second brand from Jumeirah Group, which already operates the award winning luxury Stay DifferentTM brand, has been created in response to the continuing and growing travel trend for exploration and enrichment through travel experiences. Zabeel House by JumeirahTM will have a strong appeal for this increasing segment of travellers, from across a broad demographic, who want to connect meaningfully with their travel destinations. Photo Courtesy: Getty Images With five management agreements already signed ... Read more

American social networking site Twitter introduced a new exclusive emoji that represents India Gate on Wednesday, as part of the Republic Day celebrations. Photo Courtesy : Twitter “The emoji that is limited till January 29, would be a symbolic representation that reminds the unity and prosperity of the country,” said Mahima Kaul, Head of Public Policy and Government, Twitter India. The emoji also has a unique implication on Prime minister’s visit to Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate for paying honour to the martyrs before the parade. Photo Courtesy: twitter.com As the Twitteratis took the new option by storm started ... Read more

Canada’s most populous city Toronto recorded the highest number of tourist arrival in 2017. An astonishing figure of 43.7 million with a revenue of $8.8 billion dollar was recorded in the year. Photo Courtesy: Youtube.com The total spending expenditure by the tourist were $700 million dollars, higher than that in 2016. The capital of Ontario was visited more by domestic travellers, said the authorities. Toronto saw 10.4 million domestic travellers in the year, which was high in number when compared to foreign travellers. Toronto is famous for its education platforms that are attracted by millions of youth around the globe. ... Read more

Indian telecom sensation Jio has announced their most awaited Republic day offer for its loyal customers with extra data and new budget plans. New offer gives an added 500MB extra usage as well as 50 per cent more value than current plans, users will get 1.5 GB per day daily, instead of 1 GB per day and hence 1.5 GB per day users would get 2 GB per day. Photo Courtesy:youtube.com The new offer will come into existence on 26 January midnight. Jio has also announced their budget plan for Rs 98 with 2GB data for 28 days, with free ... Read more

Da Jiang Innovations Science and Technology, commonly known as DJI, has come up with their brand new drone named as ‘DJI Mavic Air’ on Tuesday. The new design is a technological expertise towards the practicality of portability, with the new convenient foldable feature that helped the drone to be backpacked much more conveniently. Photo Courtesy: www.dji.com With more flight time and performance, the device has all the potentials to give the user countless possibility of fun and exploration. Photo Courtesy :www.dji.com Some of the new features of Mavic Air includes: 32 MP panorama shooting mode (The Mavic Air combines 25 photos ... Read more

Travel and tourism fraternity is flocking to Thailand for ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) in Chiang Mai. The five-day ATF, one of the most momentous annual tourism promotion forum in Asia that includes Tourism Ministers from the ASEAN countries, various airline company meetings, tourism conference, travel exchange trade fair etc, will conclude on January 26. The theme adopted for 2018 was ‘ASEAN – Sustainable Connectivity, Boundless Prosperity’ with ‘Wonderful Indonesia’ being highlighted this year. Also this year Indonesia will detail a 182 square meter pavilion for the expo. Ministry’s development and marketing first deputy, Pitana said that the event also showcases 350 ... Read more

The state capital of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, is all ready for the five day National Banan Festival 2018. The event, which is scheduled to be held from February 17 to 21, 2018, will be held at the Vellayani Grounds in Kalliyoor Grama Panchayat. Thiruvananthapuram-based Centre for Innovation in Science & Social Action (CISSA) is organising NBF 2018. A photography contest will also be held as part of the festival. The competition is open to amateurs as well as professionals. Photographs that are submitted for the competition should have ‘banana’ as the focal theme. Photographs can be of different varieties of bananas in ... Read more

Photo Courtesy: youtube.com The number of tourists visiting Netherlands recorded a new high with 17.6 million visits in 2017, a 11 per cent increase from the previous year. According to the statistics published by NBTC Holland Marketing, tourists from Germany, Belgium, and United Kingdom were the highest in number. They altogether spent about 13 billion euros. Predictions also state that there would be an increase in foreign tourist arrival in the coming years also. “If we don’t do anything now, future guests will visit the same places at the same time. We therefore need to work even more firmly on, ... Read more

Kerala tourism to put forward new techniques to market eco-tourism spots leveraging information and communication technology (ICT) tools including micro websites and promotional videos. The government has approved Rs 1.95 crores for the project proposal led by Invis Multimedia, Kerala state Tourism Department’s official web developers. Photo Courtesy:keralatourism.org As the importance of visual marketing is growing rapidly, the website will post 15 new promotional films on eco-adventure, and e-brochures followed by a new format of centralised online booking system for preferred eco-tourism destinations. “Several ecotourism centres have own websites and the activities there are also being promoted by both tourism and ... Read more

German automobile giant Volkswagen and Czech, Republic car makers Skoda are planning to invest Rs 7, 800 crore in India for launching brand new 6 cars. photo courtesy:linkedin.com As India is keeping strict regulations on emission and safety the new cars would be given priority based on it. The launch is expected to be in 2020 with 3 cars each for the brands. The new cars would be under Volkswagen Group’s MQB platform, a modular construction of its transverse, front-engine, front-wheel drive automobiles. “If the models are successful in India then we will expand the market to other countries,” informs ... Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to exhibit Indian desi cuisine and yoga as part of the annual meeting of World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland. The 48th World Economic Forum will be attended by over 3000 global leaders as well as people in the field of politics, art and academics. Indian delegates will be the largest in number with over 130 representatives present. picture courtasy: DNA@dna The summit themed ‘Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World’ will be inaugurated by WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab. WEF also represents annual ‘Crystal Awards’, and the winners of this year are superstar Shahrukh ... Read more

According to the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ), the tourism revenues in 2017 increased by 12.5 per cent, up to $4.6 billion, compared to $4.1 billion in 2016. The report says that the increase was mainly due to an 8.7 per cent rise in the total number of tourists in 2017. In December 2017, the Kingdom’s revenues from tourism went up by 9.1 per cent, reaching $340.9 million, compared to the same month in 2016, as the result of the increase in the total number of tourists by 6.2 per cent compared to the same month in 2016, the statement ... Read more

The annual tribal fair, Adivasi Mela, organized by the government of Odisha, is scheduled to be held on January 26. The event, which was held at the Adivasi Ground at Unit-1, will now be organised at the Idco Exhibition Ground at Unit-3 citing smooth traffic management and better parking facilities. The mela is gaining much attention as the localites are unhappy about the change in venue. The fair is considered as the oldest and the most colourful festival of tribal people where all the 62 tribes people including 13 PTGs, come over to the exhibition ground and spread out their ... Read more