Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Miracle Garden

MIRACLE GARDEN 
Miracle Garden in Dubai is an awesome tourist spot. A garden full of flowers, flowers arranged resembling various models including Burj Kalifa covered in flowers, amazing color combinations, fantastic art pieces, plenty romance, neatly organised. It is the best place for lovers and couples to share some wonderful honey moments. Those who love flowers and photography, Miracle Garden is the must visit tourist spot in Dubai.

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Nat'l Award for Tourism Website

Kerala Tourism’s website has for the sixth time bagged the National Tourism Award 2012-13 for the Best Website. The website gets the award for the most innovative use of information technology for promoting tourism. The website (www.keralatourism.org) has been named the 10th best in the world. The website designed by Thiruvananthapuram-based Invis Multimedia has bagged many laurels, including the award of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) in 2010 and the PATA best e-mail newsletter award in 2005 and 2013. Most of the search engines have ranked www.keralatourism.org as the first site for information on Kerala. The website can be virtually called an online encyclopedia on Kerala. Rich with more than 3000 videos and 1500 pictures, the website is available in English, Hindi, Russian, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic, besides Malayalam.

Thursday, 6 February 2014

India to extend visa-on-arrival facility to 180 countries

India will extend visa-on-arrival to tourists of all nations barring eight, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Iran, as it looks to boost tourism, Planning Minister Rajeev Shukla said on Wednesday. India currently offers visa-on-arrival to tourists from 11 countries like Finland, the Philippines, Singapore and Japan. This facility is now being extended to 180 countries. The only exception to this rule will be nationals from Pakistan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Somalia, he said without giving reasons. Following a high-level meeting with representatives from various ministries, he said the electronic visa would be valid for 30 days from the date of the tourist's arrival in India. "The facility will provide a major boost to the country's tourism sector. This is historic," Shukla said. A separate website would be set up for extending the facility to foreigners intending to visit India as tourists. To get visa, they would need to apply in the designated website along the required fees. They would be granted an electronic version of the visa within three days. "Visa-on-arrival can be availed in all 26 major domestic airports from where international flights ply," he said.