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

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.

Incredible India!

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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.

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.

India At ITB BERLIN- Setting New Records

If you see India as Goa, Rajasthan and Kerala, then its time for you to think again as there are myriad other attractions which formalize it as a cultural-heritage state.

With growing interests of foreign and domestic tourists, Indian government is taking all the requisite steps to present the state on world platform. They are bringing major change in tourism policy and strengthening their position in the global tourism market.

The latest buzz in the tourism industry was participation of India in ITB Berlin – the largest travel show in the world (March 6-March 11). India partnered the show with Berlin.

ITB was huge and so India had to take best of gems to showcase. Around 45 chefs were flown oversees and hundreds of craftsmen’s ranging from fashion designers to mehandi applicators to present India as beautiful tourist destination. There were around 75 folk artistes, which accentuate the Indian flavour.

All in all, India put up a great show and the got loads of applause and feedbacks from foreign spectators. ITB 2007 would play a major role in increase of tourism in India in the years to come.

For more details, please go through this
http://www.incredibleindia.org/itb_berlin.htm

Indian Tiger Welfare Society (ITWS)

Tigers-The majestic mammal never goes out of talk. Specially if you are person who are deeply interested in nature and ecology. The government initiated “Project Tiger Scheme” was amongst the first one to realize the fact that Indian Tigers should be conserved. After that only few organization boomed to support the cause. One such organization is ITWS (Indian Tiger Welfare Society).

The society is concerned about the depleting population of Indian Tigers and is trying to do all the good things, which could actually bring about certain change. The most important activity of ITWS is spreading awareness on Indian Tigers. For this, they have done many campaigns and organized many wildlife tours. They have also become a part of other organizations who are actively involved conserving the nature’s best

Their site www.indiantiger.org itself is an encyclopedia of the big cat species. Here you would find detailed information on Indian Tigers – ranging from their personal characterstics to habitat to wildlife parks.

The organization is a mastermind of few naturalists who are doing the noble cause with a reason to retain India’s wildlife heritage.

If you also want to support ITWS, then you can drop in your message at info@indiantiger.org.

Rendezvous with India

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India excites globetrotters and if you are amongst those itchy feets then your venture to India is must. Myriad reasons and charms calls you to explore India - a hearthrob travel destination of South Asia. Taj Mahal, Khajuraho Temples, Kaziranga, River rafting, cluster to form an array of exciting opprtunities for travellers to unravel. If you are still hanging on WHYS, then here we go!

• More than 25 World Heriatge Sites dots Indian landscape.
• Figure out why wanderers experience an aderalanin rush in their body!
• Villages and Tribes are the biggest asset Indians have and discovering them is a fruitful experience!
• Pamper your eyes with the intoxicating cultural heritage of India undermine in its graceful dance forms and Itunic music.

For more whys and wherefores, hang on to Discover Incredible India!