Arabian Travel Mart - West Asia region’s largest
ever travel gathering gets
underway at the World
Trade Center in Dubai today.
The four-day long event brings together the leaders
in tourism and hospitality industry from all over the world including India to
attract the tourists to and from this part of the world. Tourism professionals
including exhibitors and visitors from 157 countries along with 68-country
pavilions, are a major attraction at the mega event. Exhibitions at the Arabian
travel mart cover luxury, sports, shopping, careers, budget travel, health and
wellness, air travel and water-based tourism.
India Pavilion has been set up by the India Tourism
at the Arabian Travel Mart. The theme is India as a multi-faceted tourism
destination for luxury, wildlife, wellness and health or medical travel.
It is also aimed at providing a better platform for
the Indian travel industry comprised of tour operators, hoteliers, airlines and
state governments at the show. In all 28 stalls have been put up at the India
Pavilion with Air India and Tea Board finding a prominent place at the event. A
high level delegation from the Ministry of tourism is attending the show.
Latest figures from the World Travel and Tourism
Council show more than 1 billion tourists footfall globally for 2013 which has
contributed to around 9% of the world’s GDP.
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