Thursday, February 19, 2009
Rajasthan tours
The main largest state in India and the most attractive one at that, Rajasthan exercises an ineluctable spell on the guests. Rajasthan tours enable the traveler to get familiar with the land of rugged splendor, romance, chivalry and multiple colors. Rajasthan has always acted as a major draw for the foreign traveler prodding them to embark on Rajasthan tours that allow them the chance to revel in the beauty of the sand dunes, tranquil lakes, unassailable forts and the splendid palaces. Rajasthan tour packages are bound to be planned affairs. There is so much to see and be fearful by in Rajasthan that unless you follow a well-planned tour, you are likely to miss out on some of the major aspect of tour to Rajasthan. The serene yet enchanting lakes of Udaipur, the impressive forts of Jodhpur, Bikaner and Jaisalmer feature prominently in the priority lists of the tourists visiting this charming land. Availing of the Rajasthan tour packages might smooth out the crease involved in Rajasthan tours. A number of customized packages are on offer and these are meant to introduce the traveler with the best that Rajasthan has on offer.If you wish to go on Rajasthan desert tour, then Jaisalmer, Jodhpur and Bikaner are the cities that should be built-in in your priority list. The apparently endless expanse of sand and the camel safaris are what will make your tour of Rajasthan all the more special. Though Rajasthan is renowned for its deserts, yet that does not take away from them the importance that the wildlife in Rajasthan enjoys. Rajasthan is like the ultimate holiday packages with something of everything thrown in to ensure that your trip is nothing short of impressive. From deserts, mountain ranges and hill station to temples, tiger reserves and national parks, Rajasthan has it all.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Budget Tours
India tour is good but what is important is that you get the excellent of vacation deals, budget tours to India. Visitors mostly look for India tour packages that have been packaged keeping their budget in mind. You can get in touch with a number of travel management companies and they will all promise you to provide you with a more cost-efficient option. This is the time when you will need to do your homework. Talk to 4-5 travel agents at one time and ask them for budget tours to India. The process will take up some time but with some good research you can end up having a tour to India matching your budget.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
India tour packages
With (Budget tour to India) India tour packages, you can have the best of the services and visit all your dream destinations, without facing any problem. The Budget tour to India provides complete solution to all your traveling needs. It covers all the necessary aspects such as transportation, room reservation, food, shopping, sight seeing etc, that generally come up while on a India tour. In fact, the entire India package is designed by professional tour agents in a very informative manner. The itinerary is designed to include maximum locations, which until now you have seen only on television or read it in papers.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Iran trying to attract muslims tourists
The two young girls sped past on their hired bicycles, clearly enjoying a pastime that is banned for them throughout the rest of Iran.
And out on the clear waters of the southern Gulf, a young married couple skimmed the placid blue surface on a jetski, she fully dressed but her arms around the man clad in swim trunks, T-shirt and lifejacket.
And while alcohol is barred on Kish island like everywhere else in Iran, a more relaxed ambiance seems to pervade this island resort where for a couple, jetski-ing well off-shore, it may seem worth the risk of breaking the rules.
The flexibility, however, is not enough to bring in non-Muslim tourists for most of whom alcohol and mixed bathing are a holiday norm.
So Iran is trying to attract Muslims to breathe life into its island resort and counter the flow of Iranians opting for holidays in neighbouring countries.
"We count on the billion-strong Muslim population to vacation here and we are going to invest in attracting them," said Asghar Alizade Gharib, a tourism official on Kish island.
There is quite a long way to go even to keep Muslim tourists happy.
At present only one beach is reserved for women, but there at least they can bathe in swimming costumes even if getting there requires at least a 10-minute drive to or from the nearest hotel.
Covered in sweat and tugging at her headscarf, Somayeh Ebrahimi waits for a taxi outside the beach - sheltered by high wooden fences on the eastern coast, despite there being no high buildings to overlook it.
"This is so inconvenient, I don't mind going to the beach without my husband, but they have to do something to make it easier to get there in this terrible heat," said the 26-year-old mechanical engineer.
It is the first vacation on Kish for Ebrahimi, who has already been to Britain, Dubai and Malaysia, but who says she would much prefer to spend her money at home and see her fellow Iranians become richer.
"I do not care for going to Dubai again; there is nothing cultural to do, but if they want a tourist boom here they should bring in the concerts, the water park and the exotic restaurants."
Once a winter getaway for the former Shah and his family, Kish was declared a free trade zone in 1992 to try to rival nearby Dubai. It became a shopping paradise drawing thousands of tourists to the mushrooming malls despite its unbearable heat and humidity.
"There are not as many visitors to spend big bucks here any more," lamented Saeed Shirazi, a taxi driver who has lived on the island for 18 years.
In a country of 70 million, Kish has an annual one million visitors, with barely any foreigners among them.
Tourists complain there is not much to do except shop, which has lost its appeal as prices are little different from the mainland, where the government reduced import tariffs in a bid to combat smuggling.
"The quality stuff is as expensive as in Tehran and the rest is fake Chinese and Thai plastic," said 27-year-old Shiva Rahmani in disdain, eyeing an imitation Diesel bag in a shop window covered with sale signs.
"I would have liked to go to Dubai or Turkey, but my father does not allow me to go abroad," said this single woman of Iran's neighbours which draw hundreds of thousand of Iranian tourists every year.
She has spent 250 dollars on a five-day package while her friends went to Antaliya in southern Turkey "where there is more freedom and fun for 400 dollars".
Gharib says bargain shopping is no longer a tourist attraction, yet he admits the island does not have much else to offer, especially for women.
"The island has great potential to entertain holiday-makers searching for serenity in a safe familial environment off the beaten track," he said, citing warm winters, a vast sandy coastline, varied marine life and coral reefs.
"We are going to offer top quality service in water sports and eco-tourism as well as affordable accommodation while respecting our red lines," Gharib added, laying out plans for developing golf courses and boating clubs.
"There are plans for separate but close beaches for men and women," he said, acknowledging that the lack of mixed beaches and ban on alcohol are "certainly seen as limitations by many tourists".
One of the main projects is the "Flower of the East" development, which is a 1.7 billion Euro joint venture with the German firm Dress and Sommer which began in 2004 and is expected to be finished by 2009.
The project includes a seven-star and two five-star hotels, three residential areas, villas and apartment complexes, coffee shops, luxury showrooms and stores, sports facilities and a marina for 250 boats.
A golf course is also to be developed on 155 hectares (380 acres) of land. There will be an 18-hole course to PGA standards, and a nine-hole course plus one on top of a tower.
Already entrepreneurs like Hossein Sabet have started investing in luxury hotels on the island. Named after one of Iran's ancient kings, the 200-room Dariush Grand Hotel is an ambitious sprawling compound modelled after Achaemenid capital of Persepolis which opened for business about 30 months ago.
The original plan for the five-star hotel included a private beach with a variety of water sports, which is still awaiting authorization to be developed.
Hotel manager Fereidoon Movafegh said that to attract foreign tourists, the island had to offer more freedom and fun.
"We have no choice but to expand this industry, it's dynamic and keeps making money, unlike oil which will run out sometime," he said.
Rsource :http://news.ibn.net/
And out on the clear waters of the southern Gulf, a young married couple skimmed the placid blue surface on a jetski, she fully dressed but her arms around the man clad in swim trunks, T-shirt and lifejacket.
And while alcohol is barred on Kish island like everywhere else in Iran, a more relaxed ambiance seems to pervade this island resort where for a couple, jetski-ing well off-shore, it may seem worth the risk of breaking the rules.
The flexibility, however, is not enough to bring in non-Muslim tourists for most of whom alcohol and mixed bathing are a holiday norm.
So Iran is trying to attract Muslims to breathe life into its island resort and counter the flow of Iranians opting for holidays in neighbouring countries.
"We count on the billion-strong Muslim population to vacation here and we are going to invest in attracting them," said Asghar Alizade Gharib, a tourism official on Kish island.
There is quite a long way to go even to keep Muslim tourists happy.
At present only one beach is reserved for women, but there at least they can bathe in swimming costumes even if getting there requires at least a 10-minute drive to or from the nearest hotel.
Covered in sweat and tugging at her headscarf, Somayeh Ebrahimi waits for a taxi outside the beach - sheltered by high wooden fences on the eastern coast, despite there being no high buildings to overlook it.
"This is so inconvenient, I don't mind going to the beach without my husband, but they have to do something to make it easier to get there in this terrible heat," said the 26-year-old mechanical engineer.
It is the first vacation on Kish for Ebrahimi, who has already been to Britain, Dubai and Malaysia, but who says she would much prefer to spend her money at home and see her fellow Iranians become richer.
"I do not care for going to Dubai again; there is nothing cultural to do, but if they want a tourist boom here they should bring in the concerts, the water park and the exotic restaurants."
Once a winter getaway for the former Shah and his family, Kish was declared a free trade zone in 1992 to try to rival nearby Dubai. It became a shopping paradise drawing thousands of tourists to the mushrooming malls despite its unbearable heat and humidity.
"There are not as many visitors to spend big bucks here any more," lamented Saeed Shirazi, a taxi driver who has lived on the island for 18 years.
In a country of 70 million, Kish has an annual one million visitors, with barely any foreigners among them.
Tourists complain there is not much to do except shop, which has lost its appeal as prices are little different from the mainland, where the government reduced import tariffs in a bid to combat smuggling.
"The quality stuff is as expensive as in Tehran and the rest is fake Chinese and Thai plastic," said 27-year-old Shiva Rahmani in disdain, eyeing an imitation Diesel bag in a shop window covered with sale signs.
"I would have liked to go to Dubai or Turkey, but my father does not allow me to go abroad," said this single woman of Iran's neighbours which draw hundreds of thousand of Iranian tourists every year.
She has spent 250 dollars on a five-day package while her friends went to Antaliya in southern Turkey "where there is more freedom and fun for 400 dollars".
Gharib says bargain shopping is no longer a tourist attraction, yet he admits the island does not have much else to offer, especially for women.
"The island has great potential to entertain holiday-makers searching for serenity in a safe familial environment off the beaten track," he said, citing warm winters, a vast sandy coastline, varied marine life and coral reefs.
"We are going to offer top quality service in water sports and eco-tourism as well as affordable accommodation while respecting our red lines," Gharib added, laying out plans for developing golf courses and boating clubs.
"There are plans for separate but close beaches for men and women," he said, acknowledging that the lack of mixed beaches and ban on alcohol are "certainly seen as limitations by many tourists".
One of the main projects is the "Flower of the East" development, which is a 1.7 billion Euro joint venture with the German firm Dress and Sommer which began in 2004 and is expected to be finished by 2009.
The project includes a seven-star and two five-star hotels, three residential areas, villas and apartment complexes, coffee shops, luxury showrooms and stores, sports facilities and a marina for 250 boats.
A golf course is also to be developed on 155 hectares (380 acres) of land. There will be an 18-hole course to PGA standards, and a nine-hole course plus one on top of a tower.
Already entrepreneurs like Hossein Sabet have started investing in luxury hotels on the island. Named after one of Iran's ancient kings, the 200-room Dariush Grand Hotel is an ambitious sprawling compound modelled after Achaemenid capital of Persepolis which opened for business about 30 months ago.
The original plan for the five-star hotel included a private beach with a variety of water sports, which is still awaiting authorization to be developed.
Hotel manager Fereidoon Movafegh said that to attract foreign tourists, the island had to offer more freedom and fun.
"We have no choice but to expand this industry, it's dynamic and keeps making money, unlike oil which will run out sometime," he said.
Rsource :http://news.ibn.net/
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Ultimate Crucible of India’s culture
Crucible of India’s culture is a confluence of ancient, medieval and modern, the East and the West, Asian and European - all the streams. Urban cultural centers are the metropolitan towns and New Delhi, the Capital. Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) on the west coast, Chennai (Madras) on the east coast, Kolkata (Calcutta) up north along the same coastline hold scores of cultural events every day. They are centers of neighborhood regional cultures as well as India's classical traditions. The myriad performances are representations of the great artistic diversity of India. The rich aesthetic experience - music, dances, choreography theatre and mime - are bound to dazzle and enamors overseas visitors. Visit for a peep into India's culture.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Tour Information
Human beings are always curious to acquire new information by reading books, newspapers and magazines, watching television, browsing through Internet, traveling to various parts of the world and socializing with other people. But, making extensive travels to different locations has its own attraction and is a popular mean of acquiring new information as well as relaxation. Spending some memorable moments with your near and dear ones at picturesque locations far away from your busy life is a burning desire for every human being.
But, before embarking upon your journey, you must have some important travel information and guidelines about the place of your visit so that you and your companions can enjoy the travel to the fullest. In the era of World Wide Web, getting useful travel detailed information to tourists around the world about popular holiday destinations across the continents. It not only guides you about the tourist spots, but also provides an easy and affordable solution of getting there such as travel on a cruise.
The rich diversity of
Like Greece, Italy is well-known for its cities full of hustle and bustle like Rome, Milan and Florence and its world famous cuisines containing lots of chicken, vegetables, seafood and of course, pasta. The friendly and colorful nature of Italian people makes outside tourists feel like at home.
Tourists have now started thinking beyond European countries. Of late, continents like
Friday, February 29, 2008
why touristourists were discouraged ?
India Tour - With an aim to reassure the world that Nepal is a safe destination, tourism professionals from both government and private sector are gathering in New Delhi on February 9, 2005 to organize Nepal Show Case – a confidence building campaign targeted at Indian tourists and other foreigners coming to Nepal via India.
The organizing of such program at this hour is essential, mainly to counter the distorting messages that have been spread all over, thus creating unnecessary confusion to outbound tour operators and the incoming tourists following to the disruption of communication in the last few days, says Basant Raj Mishra, President of NATO.
The campaign is jointly led by Nepal Association of Tour Operators (NATO), Pacific Asia Travel Agents (PATA Nepal Chapter) and Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) with support from His Majesty’s Government of Nepal – Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA).
The Nepali team will hold a Business to Business session with the Indian tour operators and those foreign tour operators having their outlet in India during the event. A press conference will also be organized to apprise of the latest tourism scenario, including the smooth operation of international communication system to the Media, which will be followed by a reception.
A total of 12 tourism companies of Nepal are taking part in the program whose audience would be some 200 tourism professionals including those from Indian tour operator and Indian press.
“We have begun our efforts from India, as the Indian market is important for Nepalese tourism industry and almost one-third of the non-Indian tourists do come via India,” he added, stating that such activities would help regain the confidence of foreign tour operators and the tourists from the third countries that have already arrived in India in their long-haul tour to India and Nepal. “In the days to come, we will also organize similar events as a marketing campaign to promote Nepalese tourism in the European and American Markets,” Mr. Mishra added.
Nepali delegation would put its efforts to assure Indian tour operators of safety and security of tourists in Nepal and convince the Indian journalists that the life in Nepal is normal and everything is running as smooth as it was ever. The Nepali members of the team will relay their foreign counterparts that tourism would in fact, flourish in the changed scenario.
The Nepali team includes Honorary Secretary of NATO and the Board Member of NTB Mr. Ashok Pokharel, CEO of NTB Mr. Tek Bahadur Dangi, President of PATA-Nepal Chapter Mr. Prabin Bahadur Pandey and Honorary Secretary of PATA Nepal Chapter and Executive Member of NATO Mr. Shikher Prasai.
The twelve private companies participating in the event include Soaltee Crowne Plaza, Hotel Yak and Yeti, Hotel Annapurna, Hotel Everest, Shangri-La Hotel, Asian Trekking, Dharma Adventures, Himalayan Expedition, Natraj Tours and Travels, Shangri-La Tours, Yeti Travels and Cosmic Air. Tourism entrepreneurs are upbeat that the industry will not see the cancellations any more after this campaign. “The tourists were discouraged to travel to Nepal .
before, but now we hope that the business will be better,” they say. The tourism entrepreneurs have also thanked His Majesty’s Government of Nepal for resuming the international communication services in such a short span of time.
Source: http://www.nepaltouroperators.org/news.php
The organizing of such program at this hour is essential, mainly to counter the distorting messages that have been spread all over, thus creating unnecessary confusion to outbound tour operators and the incoming tourists following to the disruption of communication in the last few days, says Basant Raj Mishra, President of NATO.
The campaign is jointly led by Nepal Association of Tour Operators (NATO), Pacific Asia Travel Agents (PATA Nepal Chapter) and Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) with support from His Majesty’s Government of Nepal – Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA).
The Nepali team will hold a Business to Business session with the Indian tour operators and those foreign tour operators having their outlet in India during the event. A press conference will also be organized to apprise of the latest tourism scenario, including the smooth operation of international communication system to the Media, which will be followed by a reception.
A total of 12 tourism companies of Nepal are taking part in the program whose audience would be some 200 tourism professionals including those from Indian tour operator and Indian press.
“We have begun our efforts from India, as the Indian market is important for Nepalese tourism industry and almost one-third of the non-Indian tourists do come via India,” he added, stating that such activities would help regain the confidence of foreign tour operators and the tourists from the third countries that have already arrived in India in their long-haul tour to India and Nepal. “In the days to come, we will also organize similar events as a marketing campaign to promote Nepalese tourism in the European and American Markets,” Mr. Mishra added.
Nepali delegation would put its efforts to assure Indian tour operators of safety and security of tourists in Nepal and convince the Indian journalists that the life in Nepal is normal and everything is running as smooth as it was ever. The Nepali members of the team will relay their foreign counterparts that tourism would in fact, flourish in the changed scenario.
The Nepali team includes Honorary Secretary of NATO and the Board Member of NTB Mr. Ashok Pokharel, CEO of NTB Mr. Tek Bahadur Dangi, President of PATA-Nepal Chapter Mr. Prabin Bahadur Pandey and Honorary Secretary of PATA Nepal Chapter and Executive Member of NATO Mr. Shikher Prasai.
The twelve private companies participating in the event include Soaltee Crowne Plaza, Hotel Yak and Yeti, Hotel Annapurna, Hotel Everest, Shangri-La Hotel, Asian Trekking, Dharma Adventures, Himalayan Expedition, Natraj Tours and Travels, Shangri-La Tours, Yeti Travels and Cosmic Air. Tourism entrepreneurs are upbeat that the industry will not see the cancellations any more after this campaign. “The tourists were discouraged to travel to Nepal .
before, but now we hope that the business will be better,” they say. The tourism entrepreneurs have also thanked His Majesty’s Government of Nepal for resuming the international communication services in such a short span of time.
Source: http://www.nepaltouroperators.org/news.php
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