The focus this year will be to deliberate about revival of inbound tourism to India

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate the 37th IATO Annual Convention at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow from December 16-19, 2022. The Centrum Lucknow will be the venue hotel and all other activities including registration for the convention, business sessions and evening programmes.

While announcing the decision of the Executive Committee, Rajiv Mehra, President, Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO), said, “We expect about 900-1,000 delegates from all over the country to participate which will include senior officials from the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India and states, industry leaders, tourism and hospitality professionals, travel trade media. An added attraction for this year’s convention would be post-convention tours to Ayodhya and Varanasi. We expect participation of about 18 to 20 state governments in the convention as every state is keen to re-instate inbound tourism to their respective states. This year the focus would be to deliberate about the revival of inbound tourism to India. Therefore, the theme of the convention and subjects for the business sessions would be suitably decided by the committee.”

Concurrently with the convention, there will be Travel Mart, which will be an opportunity for the exhibitors to showcase exciting and diverse range of destinations, conference and Incentive venues especially by the state governments.