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Jordan Tourism Board Welcomes Increase in Indian Arrivals

Jordan offers an excellent blend of tradition and culture along with developed infrastructure and world class hospitality services. We spoke to Ashit Taneja, Country Manager, Jordan Tourism Board on why India market ranks as one of the top source markets and what are the key future strategies to market the destination.

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Jet Airways wins Best Airline in India Award from Tripadvisor

IndiGo has won top honours in the ‘Low Cost Airlines – Asia Pacific’ category. The awards recognised 50 airlines overall, including top lists for the World, Europe, North America,the Middle East and Africa; as well as 16 regional winners.

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"Our Promise is to Get You the Best Hotel at the Best Price"

Nikhil Ganju, Country Manager of TripAdvisor speaks about what lies ahead for the travel website behemoth and dealing with the unique challenge of the vacation rental phenomenon.

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India Leads as Dubai's Top International Tourism Source Market in 2016

Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing released a report which states Dubai welcomed 1.8 million overnight visitors from India, reflecting growth of twelve per cent.

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It's About Being in the Right Place at the Right Time: John Boulding

We spoke to Insight Vacations CEO John Boulding and Jt MD of Signature Tours, Rajeev Kohli on their new venture which targets the upper end of the Indian tourist trade. It's a timely venture as the market has developed sufficiently, they said.

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VIA Facilitates Seamless Payments with mPOS

VIA has tied up with various mobile payment solutions startups to deploy 1000-odd new stores on mPOS machines. Number of transactions on mPOS has now increased to over 2000 a day.

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Via.com UAE Launches Cash on Delivery Service

The COD facility will now enable the customers to make travel bookings with Via.com and pay cash against the travel bookings. This facility is currently available only for international flight bookings and will eventually be available for holiday packages and hotel bookings in the near future.

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Indonesia's Garuda Airlines Introduces New Service Between Jakarta and Mumbai

The opening of Garuda Indonesia’s flight to Mumbai is part of its international network development program, especially in the South Asia region, as well as the manifestation of the airline’s strong commitment to continuously support the Indonesian government’s program to double the number of international tourists visiting the country by 2019.

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Airports, Passengers & the Future Use of Technology

There are a host of opportunities available through new tech that can boost engagement between customers and providers and the future will see this being used to ever greater degrees for the benefit of both parties.

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We want India to rediscover Switzerland: Claudio Zemp

Bollywood may have already made the scenic beauty of Switzerland a hit with Indian tourists, but the Director India of Swiss Tourism told us that there was much more to see and do in his country and the Indian market was only now discovering 'new' destinations in his country.

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