India wins “World’s Leading Destination” award

India, on Tuesday, won recognition as the “World’s Leading Destination” at the World Travel Market 2011, currently on here. It also bagged the “World’s Leading Tourist Board” award. Union Tourism Minister Subodh Kant Sahai, who received the awards from Graham E. Cooke, president and founder of World Travel Awards, said five million tourists had already [...] Read more »

‘Visa on arrival’ scheme for tourists from 6 more countries

NEW DELHI: The ‘visa on arrival’ scheme, launched early last year to increase foreign tourist inflows, has been extended to citizens of six more countries from January this year. The new countries added to the list of beneficiaries of this scheme are Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos and Myanmar, said a government statement, adding between [...] Read more »