AC Double-Decker Train to Link Bangalore and Chennai

Chennai and Bangalore in southern part of India have long been popular destinations for cultural enthusiasts booking all-inclusive packages for holidays to the country. Leisure vacationers who wish to travel between the two cities would now be able to use an all-new, AC double-decker rail service between the two popular destinations.

With operations starting from April 25, the service is expected to become highly popular among the domestic as well as foreign holidaymakers booking packages for holidays to South India. Both the cities are immensely popular for attracting scores of cultural enthusiasts from worldwide.

The new train will leave Chennai at 7.25am and reach Bangalore at 1.30pm. From Bangalore, the train will leave at 2.40pm and reach Chennai at 8.45pm. The service will spell as a cheap and comfortable option for budget travellers booking packages for India holidays and looking for reasonable travel option between the two cities.

Railways have long been one of the most sought after ways of travelling within India and a fair share of foreign vacationers often plans to explore the country via rail travel after opting for holiday packages for India! Being a fairly new concept, the authorities are pretty sure that the double-decker air-conditioned coaches would spell new experiences for the local travellers.

Each AC coach will feature a seating capacity of 120 with only chair-car seating. Many safety features onboard the new service is sure to make foreign travellers taking packages for holidays to the country feel safe and relaxed during their train travel between the two cities.

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Delhi Free Attractions Ensure Good Time!

As colourful as rainbow and as lively as flower, Delhi is a city to celebrate the glory of India. Filled to brim with magnificent monuments and cultural gems, it offers panoply of intriguing places of interest that promise whale of time at no cost. Here are the top two free attractions that catch the fancy of vacationers making ticket reservations for flights arriving in the country.

Old Delhi:-

Oozing old glory and chock a block with entrancing Indian cultural grandeur, it perplexes and captivates simultaneously. Its local street vendors selling delicious snacks and other delicacies; roads jam-packed with rickshaws; multihued bazaars and ancient mansions – everything boasts an eternal magnificence. There is little wonder, it enamours the heart of epicureans, culture enthusiasts, history buffs and shoppers who book cheap tickets for flights arriving in Delhi metropolis.

India Gate:-

India Gate is a lofty sandstone and granite memorial that pompously stands in a sprawling park. It commemorates the soldiers died in World War I and makes for an ideal place for spending an evening amid cluster of stars. This wonderful site is visited by heaps of foreign vacationers who grab tickets deals for flights landing in the metropolis.

Lotus Temple, Crafts Museum, Lodhi Garden, Raj Ghat and Garden of Five Senses are some more intriguing tourist trappings that holidaymakers spending on tickets to travel the country.

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SpiceJet to Start Flights Connecting Delhi and Riyadh

Flyers looking for a connection between India’s thriving capital, Delhi and Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh will now be able to grab cheap travel deals with SpiceJet.   

Revealed by various online media sources, India’s popular no frills carrier, SpiceJet is now offering tickets deals on its newest daily direct flights services on Delhi- Riyadh route from January 4, 2013. 

The airline is expected to deploy its sleek 189-seater Boeing 737 NG aircraft to offer tickets for its new flights between India’s capital and the largest city of Saudi Arabia. The development is sure to tempt increasingly higher number of budget passengers who are often to be seen in a look out for cheap flights tickets on the route.

Besides Riyadh, the airline is also offering tickets on direct flights connecting India and Guangzhou in China with effect from February 8, 2013. Including these two services, the airline sells tickets for seven international destinations in its network from India. Presently, the carrier operates only to Kathmandu, Colombo, Kabul, Dubai and Male.

In a recent development, the airline had announced its plans to launch new services on three new international routes, Kochi-Male, Kochi-Dubai and Ahmadabad-Dubai. Out of which, the airline has already launched its flights connecting South India’s city of Kochi to Male and Dubai on November 29 and December 10, 2012, respectively. It is all geared to kick start its new route connecting Ahmadabad and Dubai from December 19, 2012.

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India Unveils New Tourism Campaigns

India has realised the immense potential the country holds in the tourism sector and has hence gone all out to ensure more and more people are interested in booking flights tickets deals for travelling to India! The country’s tourism ministry have recently unveiled new campaign to promote the country as holiday destination among international vacationers, tempting them to visit their travel agent and make reservations for flights tickets and organise their holiday tour in India. The ministry is also focussing on the domestic sector and has launched a promotional strategy that is primarily aimed at people within India. The international campaign is known as “Find what you seek”, and the domestic one is called “Go Beyond”.

These new campaigns, launched recently in London, will be aimed at increasing the number of foreign tourists who take tickets on direct or international flights to the ancient land of India. Currently, India attracts around 6 million foreign holiday makers every year and the nation hopes to inflate this figure in the next five years.

‘Find What You Seek’, the international promotional strategy, goes with the idea of highlighting the assertion that India offers everything a tourist looks for when he books his flights tickets. India’s Innumerable destinations and different tourism-related products ensure that the country remains in the thereabouts of ‘top holiday hubs’ and entice vacationers to seek cheap flights tickets for a tour of the expanse.

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Indian Carriers’ International Services to Spiral Up By Oct 2013

Good news is in the offing for business travellers who regularly seek flights tickets for an India travel and also for those leisure vacationers who are looking forward to book tickets on flights to the country for a holiday tour around the end of the next year. Media reports have informed that by October 2013, Indian carriers will witness the number of international services rise up to 1,695 a week from 1,074, clocking a growth of well over 50 percent. 

This follows Government of India’s consent for allowing domestic operators in the country to not only fly on some new global routes but also authorising the airlines to boost their frequency of flights to international destinations. Increased flights service is surely going to benefit passengers who seek flexible alternatives when it comes to booking tickets for inbound and outbound India travel. Even cheap flights tickets may also be in store with the rise in the number of traffic rights. 

From the 2013 Summer Schedule, India’s flag carrier, Air India has been allowed to operate daily flights from Delhi to Rome-Madrid-Barcelona and Moscow, while from the Winter Schedule 2013, the airline will run services between Mumbai and Nairobi. Other airlines in India would also be able to fly to new routes as authorities in the country have given permission to operate flights to Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Sydney, Melbourne, Nairobi, Al Najaf (Iraq), Moscow, Zurich, Macau, Tashkent and Ho Chi Minh City.

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Explored India Well? Think Again!

India is a strange country. But of course, we needn’t tell you that, you already knew it! This enigmatic Asian nation is as mysterious as they come. From snake charmers to terrifying rituals, from incredible beauty to astonishing nature – there’s a reason cheap flights tickets to this country are as revered as any of the many gods there!

Beyond the ashen splendour of Taj Mahal, far away from the regal magnificence of architecturally-brilliant forts, separated from the major ‘stars’ of Indian tourism and hidden from the prying eyes of the tourists who land in India with flights ticket in hands, there lies another India – an India that can be strange and an India that can be equally terrific! Here’s an idea (just an idea!) of some of the veiled Indian lures that most tourists booking flights tickets to the country usually miss.

Hundreds of corpses floating in a lake! No, this is no scene from some horror movie but a real thing at one remote corner of Himalayan Mountains. Roopkund Lake, aka 'Skeleton Lake’, has hundreds of corpses floating in it. Grab flights tickets to the enigmatic nation to unearth this eerie wonder!

Travellers have another fantastic reason to get their hands around cheap tickets on flights headed to the nation. Located near Leh in Ladakh, the Magnetic Hill is one place where you can drive uphill with the ignition off! Now, if more places were like this, we could all save some money on fuel, just like we do on cheap flights tickets!

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More Airlines to Begin India Flights Connecting to Kolkata

Foreign tourists taking flights to India connecting Kolkata have a reason to smile as four foreign carriers are likely to begin flight services to this Indian city. 

Turkish Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Flydubai and Xiamen Airlines are in talks with Civil Aviation Ministry of India and are trying to negotiate for flight services to the new airport in Kolkata.

Malaysia Airlines started flights to Kolkata in 2005-06 but drew back its services owing to route restructuring programme. Besides, Turkish Airlines, the national carrier of Turkey, Xiaman, the first private-owned operator of China and Flydubai, the low cost air carrier of Dubai, are keen on beginning flights to one of the largest metropolises of India.

Foreign travellers have myriads of flight options as many carriers, including international as well as operators in India, are already offering flights to the Indian city.

Recently, Qatar Airways and Silk Air commenced Kolkata-bound India flights. On the other hand, Dragon Air, the subsidiary of Cathay Pacific, is another carrier that will start flights from the India metropolis to Hong Kong from November.

Travellers from Gulf, tourists from UK, rest of the Europe and Far East are likely to benefit from the development. They will be able to choose from a plethora of connecting flights for a seamless connectivity to India and that too at extremely reasonable prices.

All the four international carriers have already surveyed the traffic potential and are confident of high load factor.

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More Foreign Tourists Opting for India’s Visa on Arrival

A good number of foreign travellers taking flights to India are now opting for the Visa on Arrival (VoA) scheme for tourism purposes. The country reported an impressive growth of 90.2 percent in the count of global vacationers availing the facility in August 2012.

In August 2012, a total number of 1750 tourists took advantage of VoAs as compared to 920 VoAs during the month in 2011.

The period of January-August 2012 also saw a rise of 25.3 percent as compared to the same period in 2011. 7,514 VoA were issued to foreign tourists travelling on flights to various destinations in India in 2011, whereas the figure rose to 9412 in 2012. 

India airports ranking for the numbers of Visa on Arrival issued include Delhi on top with 5489, followed by Mumbai with 1981 while 1365 foreign holidaymakers booked flights to Chennai.

Japanese citizens who took flights to the different cities of the country were issued the maximum number of VoAs in the month of August, followed by Philippines and Indonesia.

In a bid to lure more global vacationers to take flights, the Government of India introduced the Visa on Arrival scheme in January 2010. Initially it was offered to nationals of 5 countries - Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Singapore, visiting for tourism purposes. In January 2011, it was extended to tourists from Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos and Myanmar.

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India's tourism sector set to grow

India's ministry of tourism believes that the country's tourist industry is set to see strong growth.

According to Rajen Habib Khwaja, the secretary of the ministry, India has experienced a strong surge in interest from overseas over the past few months and the outlook for the sector remains positive. He explained: "India today is emerging as a major economy of the world with growth rate of more than eight per cent per annum. The tourism industry in India is set to grow even at a higher pace."

Recent figures published by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation showed that the Asia and Pacific region saw a 14 per cent increase in international visitors during August 2010 despite the worldwide economic recession.

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India sees boost in online travel market

There has been a growth in the use of India's online travel resources, claims a new report. According to Netscribes, the online travel market in India has developed significantly in recent times and is now attracting both domestic and international holidaymakers.

Those planning a cheap flight to India may benefit from this surge in internet travel resources as it could enable them to book a whole range of accommodation or even train tickets before they jet off.

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Best-selling author talks of desire to visit India

The author of the best-selling book Under the Tuscan Sun has been talking about her desire to visit other countries.

Frances Mayes wrote her story of moving to Italy to start a new life 20 years ago and now, with a new book about life in the country about to hit the shelves, she's been talking about other destinations to visit. In an interview with CNN, she said that she wants to travel to a number of countries over the coming years.

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