CONTENTS EVENT ROUNDUP Vol 13 No 8 September 2018 Pages 40
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Chairman of the Board Viveck Goenka Sr. Vice President - BPD Neil Viegas Asst. Vice President - BPD Harit Mohanty
TALKING DIGITALISATION IN THE MOTHER CITY Affectionately called Mother City by South Africans, Cape Town was the venue of the Outbound Tour Operators Association of India (OTOAI)'s fourth convention. As the theme of the convention was very modern - 'DigitalisationThe way forward', hosting it in this province with a colonial history was a perfect blend of the old and the new
Editor Reema Lokesh* Assistant Editor Steena Joy Sr. Associate Editor Sudipta Dev DESIGN Assistant Art Director Pravin Temble Chief Designer Prasad Tate
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Senior Designer Rekha Bisht Graphics Designer Gauri Deorukhkar Senior Artist Ratilal Ladani DIGITAL TEAM Head of Internet Viraj Mehta SCHEDULING & COORDINATION
TOURISM IN ODISHA: ALL SET FOR TAKE OFF The recently held 3rd edition of the Odisha Tourism Conclave organised by Hotel and Restaurant Association of Odisha (HRAO) supported by Government of Odisha, witnessed a meeting of minds to relook, redefine, learn and unlearn policies
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Santosh Lokare Photo Editor Sandeep Patil MARKETING Prabhas Jha Debnarayan Dutta CIRCULATION Mohan Varadakar PRODUCTION General Manager B R Tipnis
The India tourism inbound story has been written, rewritten, coded and decoded over the years. But this time the goal looks reasonably reachable because the policy makers seem to be in touch with ground reality and attempting some real-time reforms to achieve the numbers of 20 million inbound by 2020
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WORLD TOURISM DAY 2018: TOURISM AND THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
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