Tourism Ministry to take part in World Travel Market in London from Nov 5-7

New Delhi: India will take part within the World Journey Market (WTM) in London being held from November 5-7, aiming to reinforce inbound tourism and place the nation as a premier world journey vacation spot. The Ministry of Tourism in a press release on Monday stated it’s collaborating on the WTM with a delegation drawn from almost 50 stakeholders together with state governments, inbound tour operators, airways, and hoteliers from the Indian journey business to showcase India’s vibrant cultural range and the huge vary of tourism merchandise and immersive experiences.

The WTM is being held at Excel London within the UK.

With a powerful diaspora inhabitants of virtually 1.9 million, the UK has one of many greatest Indian diaspora, the ministry stated.

“A complete of 9.5 million international vacationers visited India throughout 2023, out of which 0.92 million visits have been from the UK, making it the third largest supply marketplace for inbound vacationers to India,” the assertion stated.

The ‘Chalo India’ initiative was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to have interaction the Indian diaspora for selling India to their non-Indian mates. As a part of this initiative, the Indian diaspora will invite their non-Indian mates to discover the grandeur of Incredible India.

This initiative aligns with India’s strategic aim to reinforce inbound tourism and place the nation as a premier world journey vacation spot, the assertion added. The Ministry of Tourism has developed a ‘Chalo India’ portal the place diaspora members can register and refer their non-Indian mates to go to India. Free of charge e-tourist visa to the visiting international company can also be being given as an incentive underneath the programme. Via this initiative, the Indian diaspora will play an important function in selling the nation as a premier world vacationer vacation spot, showcasing its wealthy heritage and numerous tradition to the world, the assertion stated.

“As a way to populate this initiative on a bigger scale, and in view of the UK having the second largest Indian diaspora neighborhood, the ministry is kicking off the programme underneath ‘Chalo India’ initiative from London,” it stated.

On the WTM 2024, the main focus of this 12 months’s India Pavilion is wedding tourism, MICE (Conferences, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) tourism, and ‘Mahakumbh’. A particular mock ‘mandapam’ has been created within the pavilion to present the appear and feel of an Indian wedding ceremony, the ministry stated.

The India Pavilion will showcase India’s wealthy kaleidoscope of cultures, languages, and traditions, every contributing not solely to its wealthy tourism panorama but in addition to the gamut of area of interest tourism experiences resembling spirituality and wellness, wedding ceremony, journey, ecotourism and connoisseur tourism, it added.

A number of different stakeholders, together with state tourism departments, tour operators, airways, PSUs, amongst others, are collaborating within the India Pavilion on the WTM.

The co-participants embody state tourism departments from Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, tour operators and vacation spot administration corporations, airways, resorts and the IRCTC, the assertion stated.

India stays the world’s quickest rising main economic system and is dedicated to make sure that its continued development path is provided to take care of the challenges of local weather change, its aim of reaching net-zero emission by 2070, it stated.

The 12 months India held the presidency of the G20, it showcased the range and capability of the tourism potential of the nation to the world, the ministry stated.