Only 50 tourists will be allowed at Mussorie’s famous Kempty falls in Uttarakhand with a maximum permissible time limit of 30 minutes, said an official, adding an air horn will be used to signal the exit time, reports Dinesh Mansera for NDTV. “A check-post will be set up to set up to monitor the tourists,” said District Magistrate Iva Ashish Shrivastava. The development comes after undated videos, circulated widely on social media, showed a large number of tourists bathing at the falls without maintaining social distancing norms. Vaccination is the only option if India has to mitigate the impact of…
Author: admin
Q’rius Connect, a marketing and representation services company, has launched their travel management brand “Travdesk”. Nishant Gulliya, Founder & CEO of Q’rius Connect said, “It gives us a great pleasure to launch our promising and dymanic travel brand “Travdesk”. Travdesk is curated to cater specifically the luxury and corporate travel segment focussing on the B2B market. “Some of the highlights of our brand are that we would be integrating a digital approach to our products and packages to minimise the booking time, would be focused on mandates around safety and hygiene with zero tolerance, also there will be the loyalty…
New Zealand has dismissed suggestions it should follow in Britain’s footsteps to “live with” Covid-19, saying the level of death proposed by Boris Johnson would be “unacceptable”, reports The Guardian. If cases in Britain explode as a result of the lifted regulations, New Zealand may also consider putting the country on a no-fly list. On Monday, Johnson announced plans to scrap regulations including on face masks and social distancing by 19 July, saying that Britain must “learn to live with” the virus. He said Covid cases would likely reach 50,000 a day within a fortnight, and “we must reconcile ourselves,…
Newly-appointed Union Minister G Kishan Reddy took charge as Union Tourism Minister at Shastri Bhavan in New Delhi yesterday. Along with him, Shripad Yesso Naik and Ajay Bhatt also took charge as Ministers of State in the Ministry of Tourism. Reddy has also been been assigned the charge of Union Minister of Culture as well as Development of North-Eastern Region. He was earlier holding the charge of Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs. Speaking to media, Reddy said that the Ministry will work to fulfil the Prime Minister’s vision of ‘New India’ by investing in strengthening our…
Indian Hotels Company (IHCL) today announced the signing of a Vivanta hotel in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. This is a management contract for an existing hotel in the city, which would be undergoing extensive renovations before being flagged as Vivanta. Commenting on the signing, Suma Venkatesh, Executive Vice President – Real Estate & Development, IHCL, said, “This signing is in line with IHCL’s strategy of strengthening our domestic presence in key cities. Ahmedabad is a thriving economic and industrial hub. The company will now have three of its brands – Taj, Vivanta and Ginger present in the city. We are delighted to…
Vistara has inaugurated non-stop flights between Delhi and Tokyo Haneda. The inaugural flight departed Delhi at 0300 hours (IST) and landed in Tokyo (Haneda) at 1450 hours (JST) yesterday. Under the air bubble agreement between India and Japan, Vistara will fly once a week between the two cities using its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. SCHEDULE OF FLIGHTS BETWEEN DELHI AND TOKYO HANEDA Sector Flight No. Days of Operation Departure Arrival Delhi (DEL) – Tokyo Haneda(HND) UK083 Wednesday 0300 Hrs 1450 Hrs Tokyo Haneda (HND) – Delhi (DEL) UK084 Thursday 1750 Hrs 2335 Hrs * All timings shown are in local…
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said that India’s domestic traffic fell 71.0% in May compared to May 2019 amid the emergence of the new and more contagious “Delta” variant. This compared to a 42% decline registered in April versus the same month two years ago. As per IATA, both international and domestic travel demand showed marginal improvements in May 2021, compared to the prior month, but traffic remained well below pre-pandemic levels. Recovery in international traffic in particular continued to be stymied by extensive government travel restrictions. Globally, the total demand for air travel in May 2021 (measured in…
At a major Cabinet rejig yesterday, former Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal has been allocated Union Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Ministry of AYUSH. He assumes charge at a time when cruise tourism and seaplane services which had created a major hype in the country have been on complete halt with the pandemic-induced restrictions. There were ambitious plans to explore India’s waterbodies for last mile connectivity as well water tourism tourism with alternative modes of transport.
Jyotiraditya Scindia has been appointed as the Union Civil Aviation Minister, replacing Hardeep Singh Puri. Scindia’s appointment comes at a time when the sector has been adversely impacted by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. His main challenge will be to get the sector back to its feet. Under his stewardship of the Ministry the current government will hope to complete the divestment of national carrier by the end of the fiscal, which Scindia’s predecessor Puri had aimed to achieve. General (retired) VK Singh has been appointed as the Minister of State for the Civil Aviation in the Cabinet reshuffle.
G Kishan Reddy has been appointed as the new Tourism Minister of India. Besides Tourism, Reddy is also assigned the Ministries of Culture and Development of North Eastern Region (DONER) ministries. The PM Narendra Modi-led government carried out its first major change in the Union Cabinet since May 2019 with the induction of 43 ministers.Fondly known as Kishananna, Reddy is said to have been handpicked by Amit Shah, Union Home Minister, to be his deputy when the latter took charge as the Union Home Minister in 2019.
