Airline penalized for delay in India

An Indian consumer court has ruled that airlines must compensate passengers for flight delays and sudden cancelations that cause mental agony and harassment, a news report said Tuesday.

Justice J. D. Kapoor ordered private airline, Go Air, to pay 15,000 rupees ($380) each as compensation to the passengers who had booked tickets on a New Delhi-Mumbai flight last February, the Hindustan Times reported.

Honeymoon Travel To Goa Beaches , India .

You can experience a entirely unique look from what you assumed about your holiday trip to Goa beaches in India. Goa, nested along the warm and boundless sores of the Arabian Sea, dotted with palm trees, clean, inviting and absolutely serene.
Goa is a very small state having access most tourist destinations with a couple of hours. This tourist destination attracts more than 25 lakh tourists including 22 lakhs with in the country.
Apart from beaches, Goa has a influence of Portuguese culture as it was a Portuguese colony till 1961, than it become a part of India . This makes to discover fantastic churches build more than 400 years ago, Ancient Hindu Temples , and an excellent Night Life.

PROMOTE INDIA AS THE NEW EMERGING MEDICAL VALUE TRAVEL DESTINATION

The Tourism and Culture Minister Smt. Ambika Soni has stressed the need to promote India as the new emerging Medical Value Travel destination abroad. She was speaking at the 4th India Health Summit here today. Smt. Soni said the way medial tourism has developed in recent times is largely linked to economics and technology and India is positioning itself as the primary medical destination for the most complex medical procedures in the world. She said we need to work out a strategy to retain our pre-eminence in this area. The Minister said, her Ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the Industry is committed to making this happen.

Expedia to expand into India next year

Expedia Inc., the world’s largest online travel agency with more than $17 billion in annual gross travel bookings, plans to grow even larger early next year when it establishes operations in India.

Sharat Dhall, managing director of Expedia’s yet-to-be launched India subsidiary, confirmed in mid-October that the company will launch a Web portal specifically for Indians. The announcement put an end to several years of speculation about when – or if – Expedia would enter India.

Jet Airways honoured as 'India's Leading Airline' at 14th Annual World Travel Awards

Jet Airways India Ltd has announced that Travel agents worldwide have voted Jet Airways 'India's Leading Airline' at the 14th Annual World Travel Awards. The awards were announced on November 02, 2007, at the World Travel Awards Asia, Australasia & Indian Ocean ceremony, held at the Leela Palace Kempinski, Bangalore, India.

Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as the "Travel industry's equivalent to the Oscars", the World Travel Awards are the most comprehensive and prestigious awards program in the global travel industry today. Conceived in 1993, these awards seek to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world's travel and tourism industry. The World Travel Awards are especially coveted as, uniquely, the votes are cast globally by fellow professionals.

Malayasia Airlines announces Golden Holidays for India

NEW DELHI: With an eye on increasing number of Indian holidaymakers, Malaysia Airlines, the national carrier of Malaysia, on Wednesday announced the launch of its travel and leisure arm 'Golden Holidays' in the India market.

The exclusive Golden holiday packages in India would be promoted and distributed through Kuonis established network, the officially nominated Central Marketing Agency (CMA) of Malaysia Airlines.