By ITA The much awaited and anticipated Goa Sunburn Electronic Dance Music (EDM) festival has finally been granted permission the Goa government. The festival is touted to be the biggest EDM festival in Asia and is claimed to attract EDM fans from more than 30 countries from all over world. The festival lasts for a...
By ITA The shrine of ‘Mata Adi Shakti’ at ‘Vaishno Devi shrine’ is one of the most important pilgrimage destinations for Hindus in India and abroad. The shrine, located in the city of Katra in the newly created Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, is set to get a major golden facelift – literally. A...
The interactive Facebook page of Kerala Tourism has been judged the most followed tourism page in South Asia – comfortably outpacing the likes of Tourism Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, primarily because of brand new content and fascinating visuals. Over the past two years, Kerala Tourism,s Facebook page has seen more than double the number of...
Some of the major railway routes in India could soon have private trains – which is a business plan that the Indian Railways wants to implement on a wider scale throughout the country. According to reports, there will be added facilities and better comfort for passengers in these private trains. Two Tejas Express trains had...
There is great news for travel lovers and adventure tourists – not only from India but from all over the world. According to reports, the Indian army is now considering to open up Siachen Glacier, the world’s highest battlefield, for tourists. The reports quoting government sources, claimed that one of the aims of the army...
By ITA The collapse of the 178 year old British tour operating firm Thomas Cook will have no impact on the Thomas Cook (India) Group. This is because the Indian namesake of the British tour operator is an entirely separate entity since August 2012. It was acquired by Fairfax Financial Holdings (Fairfax which is a...
By ITA Pilgrimage and visits to Vaishno Devi is sxet to become much easier thanks to the Indian Railways which has announced its plans to start a Vande Bharat Express on Delhi-Katra route before the Navratras. This will be the second Vande Bharat Express to be launched by the Indian railways in the last few...
ITA Desk : The next time you visit Goa do look out for a new service started by the Goa government of e-cycles The government there has tied up with a private company called B:Live that rents out e-cycles to tourists who can use them to venture around for sight seeking or for simply roaming...
ITA Desk : The government of Tripura will construct 51 temples, which would be replicas of the 51 Shaktipeeths, to boost tourism in the state. And to attract more tourists to the state, a new helicopter service has already been started to Devatamura and Unnakoti hills that are best known for huge sculptures cut out...
ITA Desk : According to a recent report by the World Economic Forum (WEF), India has moved up 6 places in the agency’s world travel and tourism competitiveness index. Currently, India ranks 36th in the world list and this rise has been driven by price competitiveness apart from new opportunities for tourism that make use...
