New Delhi: Something is cooking in the country's largest paramilitary force CRPF! The proverb amply suits the about 2.5-lakh personnel force as more than 12,000 cooks in the forces' 200 battalions will be sent to train under the chefs of five-star hotels run by the India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) to learn to prepare delicious and nutritious food for the jawans and officers of the paramilitary. An exclusive training centre--School...
01:24 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: With a target of 12 per cent growth in tourist arrivals, the tourism sector is expected to generate 2.5 crore jobs during the 12th Five-Year Plan. "We have targeted 12 per cent growth in inbound as well as domestic tourists during the 12th Plan period. This growth will generate 2.5 crore jobs, both direct and indirect, in tourism sector during this period," Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai said...
09:23 PM, Apr 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Visa on Arrival scheme, launched two years back to boost tourist traffic from abroad, seems to have served its purpose with 1259 foreigners visiting the country in February as against 1026 during the same period last year, recording a growth of 22.7 per cent. The VoA scheme is currently available for 12 countries including New Zealand, Phillipines, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam and Finland. The total number of 1259...
06:29 PM, Mar 09, 2012
London: India stole the limelight at the World Tourism Mart 2011 in London by wining two global awards - World's Leading Destination and World's Leading Tourist Board, Incredible India. Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai received the awards from Graham E Cooke, President and founder of World Travel Awards, at the Excel Exhibition Centre where he said India planned to have another five million tourists in the next two to three...
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