Indian diaspora brand conscious: Brands from India to cash in on opportunity

This is the time of year when visiting Indians always ask those of us who live in exile what we want them to bring from home. Pickles? Mithai? It’s a difficult question to answer. Most of us lucky enough to live in the UK don’t really miss the flavours of home food. Mostly everything, and [...] Read more »

How best to plan your finances while travelling

India’s travel market is the fastest growing one in the Asia-Pacific region and is expected to touch $24 billion mark by 2012-end. Indian travellers have also evolved to become more innovative and experimental in choosing according to their needs, be it couples, family travellers or backpackers (individual/groups). Given Indians’ desire to travel and explore, the [...] Read more »

India’s billionaires frustrated, want to shift base overseas

The government may have saved its political skin by putting FDI in retail on hold, but it has added to the sense of gloom that’s engulfing India Inc. For the past several weeks, there’s been a depressing drumbeat of stories of Indian businessmen choosing the relatively lowgrowth, high-stability option of investing abroad over the uncertainty [...] Read more »

U.S. Travel Association Invites the World to Discover America

The organization responsible for driving international tourism to the U.S has rebranded under a new name: Brand USA and it will soon launch the country’s first international marketing campaign. Brand USA debuted at the World Travel Market in London this week as the new name of the Corporation for Travel Promotion, along with its logo [...] Read more »