Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Taj- In New Seven Wonders


Finally TAJ has reclaimed its crowing glory by founding space ( FIRST for those of you who ate not aware) in the seven wonders of the world. The announcement for seven wonders were made on 7 th July 2007. 100 million votes were casted to find the new seven wonders.

NEW SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD
Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Christ the Redeemer, Brazil
The Great Wall, China
Machu Picchu, Peru
Petra, Jordan
The Roman Colosseum, Italy
The Taj Mahal, India

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Red Forts - New World Heritage Site

Good news for all those who appreciate Indian architecture, Red Fort in Delhi has been recogonised as a new WORLD HERITAGE SITE by UNESCO. After competing with many others, Red Fort came out as a winner. The monument is said to have seen it all from Mughal Emperors to Britishers to Pre Independence era. And today also it stands tall with its unconflicted dignity.

Three CHeerS to RED FORT...Hopefully Our Taj Mahal would manage to come in NEW Seven Wonders of the World.

Monday, June 4, 2007

Role of Internet in Tourism.

Over the period of time, Indian Tourism has spanned its wings and has adopted all forms of medium which could communicate the right message to the globetrotters.

Travel agencies like Makemytrip.com, Travelocity.com have taken up electronic media and have come up with some wonderful advertisement in promoting their packages. Newspaper, Tabloids and Magazines are the other form through which these agencies translate their motive.

Changing phase of Internet has revolutionized the tourism industry with deals no more restrained to face to face interactions. But out of all the modes, Internet is the most popular way of packaging one’s deal. Several reasons have been accounted and few are:

• Internet is easily available
• Cheap
• Myriad Travel agents to choose.


The Internet is already the primary source of tourist destination information for travelers.

[1]. About 95% of Web users use the Internet to gather travel related information and about 93% indicate that they visited tourism Web sites when planning for vacations.

[2]. The number of people turning to the Internet for vacation and travel planning has increased more than 300% over the past five years.

One of the major reasons, excess information present on Net, further more you have the choice to customize the packages. All is done with in 15-20 minutes. With quality service delivered to end users through just few clicks makes it the most viable mode of selection.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Maps of India

Maps of India is an exhaustive site that cover detailed map on each and every destination of India. Here you would find a road map, railway map,tourist map, physical and geographical maps. No doubt, why it is one of the most popular website in India. The site is maintained and updated by Compare Infobase.