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Khajuraho Dance
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Royal Orchids Open Central Blue Stone....
Le Meridian Open in Coimbatore....
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Air service to Tirupati from Gujarat to be launched
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at Creative Travel and our specialist brands - "Signature Tours", the
luxury travel specialist and "Plan it!", the finest conference
management team in India are proud to offer the best of India and her
neighboring countries to the discerning traveler. With a 34 year award
winning history behind us, we look forward to the opportunity to show
you what true destination management is all about. To read more about
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http://www.travel2india.com/who-we-are.htm
We appreciate the support our partners all over the world have shown
us. It is with your partnership that Creative is where it is today. For
those of you with whom we have not had the pleasure of working with,
all I can say is try us and see the Creative magic for yourself.
Through "Creatively Yours" we hope to keep you informed on the latest
news in Team Creative and the destination. We hope you find this to be
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Welcome
to another edition of "Creatively Yours"
the newsletter from Creative Travel India
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Dear Industry Colleagues:
Here is another edition of the award winning "Creatively Yours" and
Happy New year to our friends across the world.
For us in the Creative
Travel family, 2012 brings in our 35th year of being amongst India’s
most respected travel companies. The end of the year past saw
positive trends for our business and we look at 2012 as heralding
exciting new opportunities for our team. We launched two exciting
initiatives this past year - 'The Creative Academy of Tourism' and 'JungleSutra
Wildlife Journeys'. The
Creative Academy is a venture close to our hearts. It is our way of
giving back to our industry and helping in the efforts to build a base
of highly skilled manpower base for the tourism industry.
2011 was also a record breaking year when it came to winning global
accolades.
On September 28 of this year, at a glittering ceremony in Bangkok,
before
industry leaders from over 30 countries, the World Travel Awards named
us as "India's Leading
Destination Management Company". The World Travel
Award has been recognising the best in tourism, hospitality and
aviation across
all continents for over 18 years. On October 6, again in Bangkok,
before an equally illustrious audience
of
tourism leaders from across Asia-Pacific, for the second year running
we were
voted by the readers of TTG publications as the "Best Travel Agency in
India". The much coveted annual TTG Travel Awards has been
recognizing the
luminaries of the travel industry since 1989. To cap our glory, on
October 14, at stunning reception in
Las
Vegas, the motivational travel industry’s global association, Site,
relaunched
its Crystal Awards program where we won not one but TWO Site Crystals for our work in on
incentive travel programs.
We are indeed very, very proud of our team because they make this all
possible.
We Indians lead a very relaxed
life. Our concept of time is very different from the western world. We
spend the year deeply engrossed in our politics, our movies and in our
cricket. We fight, scream and shout at every opportunity we get.
Patience is an alien concept, yet we have an endless tolerance for our
nations political incompetencies & bureaucratic delays. We love our
festivals, our togetherness, our opportunities to celebrate, never
missing a moment to have a party. We love our rituals and ceremonies.
We love our summers for the mangoes they bring and our winters for all
the hot tea and spicy pakoras to eat. We love being different,
confusing and unique. This viral video on 'Driving in Delhi' says it
all http://youtu.be/crT6kHiB2hc.
India is an
unexplainable
phenomenon and Indians can sometimes be odd, but we are a people who
truly believe that 2012 will be yet another greater year to party,
enjoy family & friends and to cherish life for the future moments
it gives rather than moaning about the past..
So wherever
you are and whatever your heart desires, on behalf of the Kohli family
and the entire team at Creative Travel, Plan it! Meetings &
Conferences, The Creative Academy of Tourism & JungleSutra Wildlife
Journeys, we wish you and your loved ones a great and joyful
2012.
Have a Creative Holiday Season!
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In
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Special Feature of the
month - Khajuraho Dance Festival
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Where you can find us next - EMITT
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Guest Comment of the Month - Find out what our clients have to
say about us in this section
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Destination News - Three New Museums in West Bengal, 13 African cheetahs
to land in MP sanctuary, IRCTC to introduce special train ‘Takht
Express’ linking Sikh shrines, Nepal witnesses an increase of 39
per cent in its tourist arrivals from India, Sri Lanka Tourism
Achieves Record-Breaking 800,000 Arrivals In 2011...all this and
more update on hotels
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Hotel News -Royal Orchids Open
Central Blue Stone, Le Meridian Open in Coimbatore, Carlson
plans to set up 100 hotels in India by 2015.....all this and
more update on hotels
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Aviation News - Air service
to Tirupati from Gujarat to be launched soon, Go Air adds seven
new daily flights from Mumbai , Sri Lanka On-line Visa
Update.....and more
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Indian Recipe of
the month - Fish Fillets in Garlic Butter
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Khajuraho Dance Festival
Khajuraho Dance Festival is organised every year in the last week of of
February till march , the dates of khajuraho dance festival for the
year 2012 is from 01st February 2012 till 07th of February 2012. The
best classical dancers from all across india give their performances in
the open air corridors of the Khajuraho group of temples. Here you can
enjoy the popular dances of India such as Kathak, Bharatnatyam,
Kuchipudi, Odissi, Manipuri and many more. The Tourism board of Madhya
Pradesh is organising and promoting the Indian Heritage Khajuraho as
well as the dances of India , and provides platform to the young
dancers to show their talent infront of the visitors from all around
the globe. It is important cultural event that fascinates aficionados
of traditional asian performing art. The dance festival is being
orgainised infront of chitragupt and vishwanath temples, located in the
western group of temple complex.
Dancers from abroad give their performance during this week long dance
festival. The Khajuraho dance festival is internationally recognized by
International dancers and acedemies. A large number of visitors come to
see the popular dances of India in this festival. Khajuraho dance
festival in Madhya Pradesh celebrates the beauty of human emotions and
religious philosphy of hindu religon. Along with this dance festival,
art & craft work is also displayed by the local villages. The
western group of temples act as the equisite backdrop for the khajuraho
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Guest Comment of the Month.....
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We at Creative track guest feedback very carefully. Each
evaluation form gives us an insight on our operations and allows us to
constantly refine our service delivery process. Now and then we get a
few letters that brighten up our days. This is one of them :
Thursday, January 5, 2012
From - Tim Wace
To - Creative Travel
Dear Krishan,
Just wanted to let you know that the Margolis family had in their words
the best holiday ever.
Thank you for all the work in making the holiday perfect we are looking
into marketing India in more detail so will be in touch as soon as we
are ready to make more bookings.
Thanks again and good luck for the New Year 2012
Jango Gazdar
UK
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Three New Museums in West Bengal
By next January, Bengal will be able to boast of three new museums
covering as diverse areas as Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das to documenting
vibrant tribal art and varied brews of tea. Two of these museums will
be in Darjeeling while the third one in Jhargram. There will be pats
and scroll paintings made by patuas, dokra art made of metal casts,
masks - especially the Chhau masks - terracotta, tussar, stone carving,
wood curving, mats and so on. Not only will it give the tourism
industry a boost, but also lend a huge financial impetus to the local
people, whom the state wants to woo especially after joint operations
against the Maoists have been stepped up.
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13 African cheetahs to land in MP sanctuary
The fastest land animal on earth, the cheetah, would be flown into
Madhya Pradesh once the MP forest department gets the import license to
bring the first 13 of the cats from the forests of Namibia , to the
Palpur-Kuna sanctuary in Sheopur. This will herald the cheetah
introduction program in India; 59 years after the last of them were
wiped out in the country. The last cheetah in India had died in Sarguja
— now in Chhattisgarh— in 1947, according to wildlife experts. TNN
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IRCTC to introduce special
train ‘Takht Express’ linking Sikh shrines
Encouraged by the successful launch of the Mahaparinirvan Express,
which links Buddhist shrines in the country, Indian Railways has
decided to introduce a special train, Takht Express, linking Sikh
shrines across the country to fulfil the needs of devotees.
According to a Railway Board official, Indian Railways is working out
the details in consultation with the Indian Railway Catering and
Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) in this connection. The fares, composition
of bogies and other details are being worked out. ". According to him,
it would be a luxury train which would cover six Sikh shrines located
across the country, including Amritsar and Patna Sahib.
Indian Railways intends to provide boarding, lodging and meals to
devotees travelling by the Takht Express. "Though the journey could
last for about seven to ten days, the Railways are keen to extend its
proposed plan for the entire tour by a few days more depending on its
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Buxa roars back, count finds 20 tigers in park
Kolkata: Buxa Tiger Reserve, a favorite holiday destination for
wildlife lovers where tales abound of phantom tiger sightings, may have
finally regained its stripes. A report by the Centre for Cellular and
Molecular Biology (CCMB) has concluded that the North Bengal reserve —
which has never had a steady tiger population and hasn’t reported a
sighting for over a decade — is home to 20 tigers, four of which are
female.
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Nepal to accord priority industry
status to its Tourism sector
The Nepal cabinet is going to announce tourism sector as a priority
industry soon. “The proposal has been submitted to the cabinet and it
will be decided soon,” said secretary at the tourism minister Dr Ganesh
Raj Joshi addressing the 48th annual general meeting of Nepal
Association of Tour and Travel Agents (NATTA). The tourism sector must
be given a priority as it is the only industry that can help develop
overall economy, Joshi said, stressing on the need of new tourist
vehicles. “But the syndicate is hurting the tourism sector.” Similarly,
tourism minister Lokendra Bista Magar stressed about the need of new
aircrafts and development of proper airport infrastructure as per a
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Nepal witnesses an increase of 39
per cent in its tourist arrivals from India
The Indian tourist’s arrival witnessed a significant growth of 39 per
cent this year as compared to the last year’s arrival figure of 104,470
by air. The number of Chinese visitors also witnessed 77.6 per cent
growth registering 45,400 arrivals this year, according to the NTB. |
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800,000 Arrivals In 2011
Achieving another remarkable milestone in the country’s booming tourism
industry, Sri Lanka Tourism welcomed the arrival of 800,000th tourist
in year 2011 at the Bandaranaike International Airport as on 19th Dec
evening. This is the first time ever; the tourism industry has received
number of arrivals exceeding 800,000 in any given year, making it a
ground breaking figure in tourism records.
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Royal Orchids Open Central Blue Stone
Royal Orchid Hotels, the hotel chain operator has opened new Hotel
Central Blue Stone in Gurgaon. The above Hotel is with 50 guest rooms
with other facilities. Following the opening of above hotel, the Royal
Orchid Group has now 19 hotels across 12 cities in India.
Royal Orchid Hotels operates 13 business and leisure hotels in six
popular destinations. With 17 unique hospitality concepts in the
offing, the Royal Orchid Group of Hotels is amongst India's fastest
growing hotel groups.
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Le Meridian Open in Coimbatore
Strategically positioned in one of India’s most dynamic cities, Le
Méridien Coimbatore is close to Coimbatore Airport (CJB), major
businesses, and a new IT park. It’s an ideal space for the
sophisticated business professional. With an emphasis on comfort and
technology, their are 254 guest rooms and suites evoke individuality
and creativity. Featuring engaging décor and flexible work space, the
rooms offer an urban escape for the well-travelled
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Carlson plans to set up 100 hotels in India by
2015
Carlson, a privately-held global hospitality and travel company, which
runs hotels under Radisson, Country Inns & Suites, Park Inn and
Park Plaza brands, will set up 100 hotels in India by 2015 and is open
to pick up strategic stake in some of the properties, a top company
official said.
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Air service to Tirupati from
Gujarat to be launched soon
Vadodara : Devotees from Ahemadabad, Surat and Vadodara could now fly
directly to temple town of Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh with the
announcement to launch the air service by two private airlines. "Andhra
Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation (APTDC) in collaboration with
Jet Airways and Spicejet will soon launch an air package tour to
Tirupati," said APTDC general manager Sumeet Singh last evening.
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Received final approval from
DGCA to resume operations: Paramount
In a statement issued in Chennai, the airline said "Paramount Airways,
the only all Business class airline in the country, received the final
approval from the DGCA to resume operations. The DGCA had last year
suspended the Chennai-based carrier's scheduled permit as rules require
that an airline should have a minimum of five planes to get that
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Go Air adds seven new daily flights from Mumbai
Mumbai : Budget carrier GoAir today said it will add seven new daily
flights from Mumbai to Ahmedabad, Ranchi, Patna and Bangalore from
December 21 to cater to the additional traffic expected in these
sectors.
With these, the total number of daily flights will touch 82, and weekly
flights will go up to around 580, connecting 21 cities, the Wadia
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IndiGo launches five new domestic flights
New Delhi: Budget carrier IndiGo said it has added five more daily
flights on its domestic route.
The new flights started Dec 20 are in the Kolkata-Raipur,
Kolkata-Indore, Raipur-Indore, Mumbai-Raipur and Indore-Mumbai sectors.
The low cost carrier (LCC) is India's second largest airline with a
market share of 19.8 percent. ; |
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Sri Lanka
On-line Visa Update
There has been another unfortunate development in the ETA (Visa on
line) scheme. Due to technical problems encountered in its
implementation, the Authorities have issued the following statement:
"The ETA (electronic travel authorization) system is operational from
01.01.2012," "However, the existing facility of Free Visa on arrival
will continue until March 31, 2012 for those who have made travel
arrangements before December 31, 2011." Basically, they are planning to
continue with the present system of visa on arrival to all travelers
who book their holiday prior to 31st December 2011 and arrive in Sri
Lanka before 31st March 2012. The clients are expected to carry a
voucher or a document confirming this (that they booked prior to
31/12/11) or send their local agent the names and passport details
which will then be forwarded to the Immigration.
The Trade has explained in detail the absurdity of this and are hopeful
that a more practical scheme will be implemented. We will let you know
as soon as this is known.
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Recipe of the month......
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Fish Fillets in Garlic Butter
Fresh pomfret fillets cooked to perfection, served with
garlic butter makes and ideal main course. Do not over cook it
as it will become dry and flaky.
Click here to read the recipe... |
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Avant Garde Deluxe
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Brazil
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Randall marketing
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Assert Management
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Presidente CWW Mexico
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Hende
Creative Travel / Agunsa Peru
Agencias Universales Peru S.A.
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Millas, Callao
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Email: peru@creative.travel
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GMC Marketing
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UK
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Creative Travel
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