India's Golden Triangle
2007-07-22 18:25:00
AGRA, India
— The sane traveler makes a simple calculation when planning agetaway: The longer it takes to get there, the longer the stay required to make it worthwhile. By that definition, my friends and I are not sane travelers.
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Air India Express to operate Malaysia flights from October
2007-07-20 18:32:00
Mumbai: Air India
Express
, the low-cost subsidiary of the national flag carrier, will start Chennai-Kuala Lumpur flights
beginning October
under a new agreement to liberalise air travel between the two countries, an airline official said. The airline is finalising details of its Malaysia
entry following the signing of the agreement on July 13, reports quoting airline sources said.However, the agreement is silent on landing rights of Air Sahara, which was disputed by state-controlled Malaysia Airlines. Malaysia Airline allegedly asked the government to cancel Air Sahara's licence on the grounds that passenger volumes on the New Delhi-Kuala Lumpur route were low.
The government's decision to charge visitors
2007-07-18 20:31:00
About four million foreign tourists visited India in 2006 and brought in foreign exchange worth more than $6.5 billion. According to World Travel and Tourism Council, the Indian tourism industry is set to grow at the rate of 10 per cent annually over the next decade. The actual potential, which is much more, can be realised if roadblocks that impede the sector's growth are removed.
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Yoga and Ayurveda in India
2007-07-16 19:41:00
"Could you tell me what places in India
you recommend for instruction in meditation, introductory yoga, and Ayurvedic medicine? Do you have any recommendations on same in the US?"I asked travel planner Sanjay Saxena of Destinationa Himalaya to answer your question, since I didn't have time to take a single yoga class while I was on assignment in India a few years ago. Sanjay is recommended for travel to India, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Tibet on Conde Nast Traveler's annual list of the world's best travel specialists. Here's what he told me:"Yoga is intrinsically wound into Indian life and a traveler can expect to see (and partake in) basic yoga in almost any city. All you have to do is ask at your hotel where the local yoga group is meeting and just show up. If you are serious about learning the daily yogic life or training to become an instructor, then your best options are in Kerala or Rishikesh.
indian pilot project that seeks to bring travel agency TravelPort’s services to malls
2007-07-15 17:26:00
The India Transact kiosks will have 10 applications, including bill payments, travel bookings, shopping, banking, buying talk-time for mobile phones, and information on restaurants, nightclubs, and movies. It has tied up up with partners such as rediff.com for shopping, IndusInd Bank Ltd for banking and Visa for bill payments. The kiosks of both India Transact and TravelPort have television screens that run advertisements, another possible source of revenue.
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It’s a short, sweet passage to India
2007-07-15 01:29:00
Mumbai, Goa, Kerala and Kolkata during his one- year sojourn in India
. “Leh boasts of an enchanting landscape, and Delhi, I believe, is the most colorful and culturally vibrant of all Indian cities.
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The Gateway to the Himalayas
2007-07-14 08:59:00
It's another beautiful day in Rishikesh, near the foothills of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand, northern India. The sacred Ganges is clear and clean here and the intermittent sandy beaches are dotted with sunbathers, saddhus and hippies concentrating on their meditative state.
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Assaf short way to the Himalayas
2007-07-14 06:44:00
Hi there.The Jordanian flag marked the beginning of our new journey.as we were told by two young arab-israeli students, who study in Amman, things are not so simple at the jordanian side. we were not allowed to leave the border post to meet our taxi-driver. "it's for your own safety"said the police officer. after he shook hands warmly with the taxi stand manager and we were forced to take a taxi from the border post. there were absolutely no farther problems, and we boarded the flight to Bahrain. it was a new airbus 330 with personal screens and good food. after a couple of hours we could see the wild over-developed shores of the Persian golf. we had 6 hours to spend in Bahrain airport. it's quite a cosmopolitan place. people from all over the world with strange dressing. airports are boring all over the world, but at least we had a chance to chat a bit with people from places we don't normally meet. a young Saudi guy, an Afghan school teacher, an Iranian woman traveling alone...at
Indian luxury hotel boss calls for clean-up
2007-07-14 06:26:00
"We have to clean our cities or risk losing tourists," said P.R.S. Oberoi, the chairman of the EIH Associated Hotels group, which includes the five-star Oberoi chain. "Water is a big problem, power is a big problem, the roads are a mess. Cleaning up our cities must happen," he told reporters.
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India to have 35 new airports by 2010
2007-07-26 17:59:00
By 2010 India
will have 35 new airports to cope with the rising demand for air travel. India currently has 133 airports that include 14 international terminals. Speaking at a seminar organised by the Foundation for Aviation and Sustainable Tourism (FAST), V P Agarwal, member (planning), Airports Authority of India (AAI), said that AAI would invest Rs40,000 crore in the next five years on developing airport infrastructure. He said the growth of low-fare airlines and cheaper airfares would encourage road and rail passengers to shift to air travel. To cope with rising demand the AAI had planned the rapid vacation of runways and interconnecting all major airports with city centres by metro trains.
Assaf in Jageshwar
2007-07-25 09:44:00
Hi from India,Smells of Cider trees welcomed us to Jageshwar, a little villge with an amazing temple complex, that dates back to the 8 centuary a.d.. with the intensity of rains here it's a real wonder. 124 temples for every form of lord Shiva are presented in the temples. there are also some dogs who eat the prasad given to the gods. we happend to arrive just at the first day of a one month festival, as apperently it's lord SHiva's month. there are many stalls selling graet varaiaty of things, and night shows of dancing (with impossibly laud music from the speakers). supraisingly, there are not many people coming to the festival, so the place is rather calm. We found a lovely room, overlooking the temples and the river, with great forest views as well. yestrday we walked up to old Jageshwar (not that this place looks new). the one hour walk turned to be a lovely 3 hours climb through the forest, going from ceder forest topine forest and at the top oak forest. all the way there are
Carriers Prepare To Offer Service Between United States And India
2007-07-24 16:48:00
Air India
, Continental Airlines and Jet Airways are ramping up service between the United
States
and India, seeking to satisfy growing demand for travel between the two countries. Air India said that it plans on Aug. 1 to introduce daily nonstop service between New York JFK and Mumbai using Boeing 777s. Air India already serves India from Newark, Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles, and serves Mumbai from New York via London, while Jet Airways' route plan is its first to touch the United States. The carrier said it plans to expand its coverage between the United States and India later this year.
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70% of Indian eggs purchased by hotels
2007-07-31 16:23:00
There will be a shortage of eggs following the ban on the import of Indian poultry products.The retail prices of eggs in the country may go up by 10 to 30 per cent soon following the ban on the import of Indian poultry products, said retail chains. Supermarkets disclosed that some egg suppliers have already given them notice to increase the price. Dr Mohammad Saeed Al Kindi, Minister of Environment and Water, said the ban covers "all domestic and wild birds, including ornamental birds and products." The decision was taken as a precautionary measure following reports by the World Organisation for Animal Health on the emergence of bird flu cases in India.
Indian Railways readies passenger facilities for train service to Bangladesh
2007-07-29 18:53:00
Indian Railways is putting together passenger facilities ahead of the start of a trans-national train service between Kolkata and Dhaka for the first time in more than four decades. The service is expected to begin in August, though no exact date has been announced.
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india Medical Travel - Precautions You Need to Take
2007-08-02 19:44:00
There are fewer regulations, regarding health in India, applicable to foreign tourists. These regulations are more of the nature of prevention than anything else.General Tips - Drink only bottled or boiled water, or carbonated (bubbly) drinks in cans or bottles. Avoid tap water, fountain drinks, and ice cubes. If this is not possible, make water safer by both filtering through an "absolute 1 micron or less" filter AND adding iodine tablets to the filtered water. "Absolute 1 micron filters" are found in camping/outdoor supply stores.
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Time to get real
2007-08-08 17:17:00
Travel has grown to become the largest segment (65-70 per cent, by industry estimates) of e-commerce in India today. However, online travel accounts for only about 10 per cent of the total domestic travel market, estimated at about $20 billion, as per figures put out by PhoCusWright. Clearly, online travel companies have a long way to go. And so the wheel has come full circle, with online travel companies now venturing off-line as well. MMT has offline retail presence in Bangalore and Ahmedabad at the moment, while Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata will be rolled out soon.
Great Indian Holidays
2007-08-06 20:43:00
Holidays in India, awesome in her size and diversity. This virtual sub-continent, stretches from the lofty Himalyas , a series of 2000km long mountain ranges in the north, to the extensive deserts in the west, the lush evergreen forest in the south to the far-flung sub Himalayan forests in the North East. Containing within it three mighty rivers, the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra, the immense Indo-Gangetic Plain, the Deccan Plateau and the two major hill chains of the South, the Western Ghats, bordering the southwestern coast from Maharashtra, across Goa and Karnataka into Kerala and the Eastern Ghats on the Coromondal Coast. Finally, the Lakhshadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
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Travel Kashmir
2007-08-04 16:44:00
Set like a jewelled crown on the map of India, Kashmir
is a many faceted diamond, changing character with the seasons - always extravagantly beautiful. Three Himalayan ranges; Karakoram, Zanaskar, and Pir Panjal - snow capped majestic frame the landscape from northwest to northeast. They are the birthplace of great rivers which flow through the kashmir valley.
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From the high Himalayas to the Tamil south
2007-08-10 21:55:00
Coming here recently to film The Story of India has made me appreciate the country even more. The wonderful variety of landscapes and cultures never fails to amaze me: the Buddhist sites of Leh and Ladakh, the Gonds of Orissa, near the magical lake at Chilika; Kerala, where you can rub shoulders with Syrian Christians, Indian Jews and Muslim boat-builders, who still ply the spice trade to the Gulf in their great wooden sailing boats. The Story of India by Michael Wood (BBC Books, £20) is published next Thursday. The six-part BBC 2 series of the same name starts on August 24 at 9pm.
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India's best holidays for 2007
2007-08-12 16:32:00
If you choose the much-awarded Oberoi Rajvilas hotel in Jaipur, here’s what you could notch up in eight days: Agra and the Taj Mahal (one hour’s flight ea way), Udaipur and lovely Lake Piola (one hour), the formidable fortress city of Jodphpur (45 minutes), the temples of Khajuraho (two hours 15 minutes) and Delhi (one hour). To which you could add a visit to the Shimla in the Himalayan foothills, or even a tiger reserve — whole chunks of India
can be digested with ease.
Medical-related precautions concerning travel in india with babies
2007-08-18 17:01:00
For medical-related
precautions concerning babies, Kozarsky says, "I worry more about sub-Saharan Africa, because there are more immunizations you can't give an infant. India is a little less problematic, but you still have to be cautious." She advises parents to make sure their child's immunizations are up-to-date. However, some travel-specific vaccines are not approved for small children. For example, while adults can be vaccinated for hepatitis A, infants must be injected with immune globulin and should take anti-malarial pills that are specifically formulated for little ones
Multifaceted India
2007-08-16 18:44:00
“When people think of India
, they tend to think of its icons—the Taj Mahal or wandering holy men. But India is a multi-sensory, multi-faceted experience,” says Andy Alpine, Co-Publisher of Specialty Travel Index.Royal Expeditions’ (so named for it’s founder Rani Chandresh Kumari, Princess of Jodhpur, not just the treatment of their guests) “Tigers, Rhinos, and Elephant’s Tour” visits the wilder places of India: Kaziranga National Park, Pench National Park, Kanha National Park, and Bandhavgarh National Park - and includes wildlife viewing by elephant and jeep, and the chance to bathe an elephant in a river.
Air India's Low-Fare Unit Plans Domestic Flights
2007-08-15 09:18:00
"We plan to start operations from the winter of this year" S. Venkat, executive director in charge of finance at Air India
, said in a telephone interview from Mumbai, where the airline is based. "We want to offer seamless connectivity to our international passengers and also those who want to travel within India." Air India Express flies to 10 international destinations, including Dubai, Sharjah, Doha, Bahrain and Colombo, from 10 Indian cities, according to the airline's Web site.
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Splurge on India's ultra luxury hotels
2007-08-20 17:57:00
The landscape changed when the Oberoi Group, an India
n hotel company, opened Rajvilas in Jaipur. Set among 32 acres of gardens and reflecting pools, the property's 54 rooms are set around courtyards and have four-poster beds and sunken white Italian marble bathtubs looking into their own walled ornamental gardens. The hotel also has a spa with an extensive menu of holistic and Western treatments and refined, doting service to match its lavish surroundings.
Mumbai-based travel firm will be opening 45 retail outlets in malls
2007-08-26 16:32:00
Travel companies are smitten by the retail bug. Mumbai
-based travel firm TravelPort will be opening 45 retail outlets in malls
by March 2008. It has tied up with the Delhi-based Salasar Retail to open travel terminals in Salasar stores. Branded as TravelPort@Salasar, these terminals will provide travel products such as air tickets, hotel packages and cruise packages. The company will also be tying up with Fun Republic and the New Delhi-based Sun City. It is in talks with players like Ansals and DLF. TravelPort is looking at an investment of Rs 3-lakh per outlet. The company has projected a turnover of Rs 100 crore by the end of this fiscal.
Domestic tourists to India expected to touch 1,570 million by 2017
2007-08-24 17:06:00
With the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) predicting India
to be the third fastest growing country in the globe in travel and tourism demand over the next 10 years, experts said time was ripe for the country to meet demands from increased number of tourist. "With the enormous tourism potential in India, the time could not be better for the industry to launch new leisure real estate models that will meet the needs of the evolving consumer," Group RCI Chairman and CEO Kenneth N May said.
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10 Perfect Days in India
2007-08-22 17:30:00
* Day 1: Old Delhi, New Delhi Day 1: Old Delhi, New Delhi * Day 2: Shah Jahan's Delhi Day 2: Shah Jahan's Delhi * Day 3: Delhi to Varanasi Day 3: Delhi to Varanasi * Day 4: Varanasi to Khajuraho Day 4: Varanasi to Khajuraho * Day 5: Khajuraho to Agra Day 5: Khajuraho to Agra * Day 6: Agra and the Taj Mahal Day 6: Agra and the Taj Mahal * Day 7: Agra to Jaipur Day 7: Agra to Jaipur * Day 8: Jaipur Day 8: Jaipur * Day 9: Udaipur Day 9: Udaipur * Day 10: Udaipur to Delhi Day 10: Udaipur to Delhi
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Infrastructure woes hit air travel in India
2007-08-28 22:18:00
NEW DELHI: Every 1,000 India
ns, accustomed to air travel, make only 20 air trips in a year against 60 and 2,300 trips made by the Chinese and Americans. This is a stark contrast and an example which highlights India’s low score in aviation penetration, said a joint study by industry body Assocham and Ernst & Young. Commenting on the study, Assocham president Venugopal Dhoot said: “The basic reason for the lack of advancement in the Indian aviation industry is the absence of proper infrastructure and presence of high costs. The aviation sector needs to pay attention to the infrastructure at the international airports, domestic aerodrome conveniences and air control and navigational facilities.”
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India Exotic Toxins
2007-09-01 16:53:00
Paul Theroux’s latest book brings India
ns and Americans together in three fictional stories that present both cultures as equally venal, grasping and degenerate. In Monkey Hill, a wealthy, middle-aged American couple visiting a Rishikesh spa succumb to the decadent comforts of Tourist India, only to be savaged by the Other India lurking just outside the magic circle of security guards and filtered water.
Air travel in India lower than SL, Pak
2007-08-30 17:02:00
NEW DELHI: The aviation sector may be witnessing an unprecedented boom in the country but an Assocham-Ernst and Young joint study suggests that India
is one of the 'least penetrated' markets for air travel. The study says, on an average, 1,000 Indians take 20 air trips a year. This figure is 60 for China and 2,300 for the US. In fact, India's "air penetration levels are even lower than its neighbours Sri Lanka, Pakistan and countries with poorer GDP such as Ethiopia and Nigeria."
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