In its overall efforts to woo a sizable share of the Indian MICE outbound traffic, Convention Bureau will be unveiling its outdoor advertising campaign in Hyderabad in mid September this year.

This week I did some research on another prospective guy thing to do being Camping. Most of us hardly leave the comforts of our home and if we do we will have the comforts of some kind of roof over our heads. How many of you would like to sleep under the stars, stand guard over camp over a slow camp fire, cook, wash and clean all in the wild, brave the storm and the floods, scare the boar (maybe e...

Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, on Friday began daily direct state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 flights from Colombo to Delhi and Mumbai. Jet Airways will provide a convenient early morning service to India’s national capital Delhi and a late night departure to the financial capital Mumbai. With this, the airline will offer seamless connectivity through the two strate...

Sri Lanka’s KumbukRiver has been included in a list of the world’s top 20 most unusual hotels, just announced by an international portal dedicated to the unusual and the audacious, a statement said.   The list includes Dubai’s landmark Burj al Arab and the Galactic, the first-ever hotel in space, the KumbukRiver statement said.   KumbukRiver is a 16-acre eco-resort in...

There are also the free independent foreign tourists (FITs) that take modes of public transport when travelling around. Although the numbers may be insignificant now, the potential for most visitors to take on such travel is huge. This is an observation I make assessing the number of visitors that use public transport at other similar tourist destinations in the region. Of course, there is a corre...