India saw 4.2 million foreign tourists till May mainly thanks to visitors from Bangladesh
The Manduadih-Rameswaram Weekly Express tops the list of latecomer trains, with the highest average delay time of 11.5 hours!
October to December is considered to be the peak season for both inbound and outbound travel.
Travel companies are trying to address the concerns of those visiting Indonesia and surrounding coastal areas.
A Bangladeshi court on Monday sent a female cricketer to two-days' police custody after she was arrested with 14,000 pills of popular drug ya ba, as methamphetamine is widely known in Asia, a senior police officer said.
Popular in India for reasons which go beyond cricket, affable pacer Brett Lee has been roped in for promoting Australian tourism in the country.
You will have to plan it in advance to bag good deals and save at the same time
'Why can't a country that builds and manages airports of acknowledged excellence at home and abroad produce passports of durable quality for its citizens?' asks Sunil Sethi.
Avni Mehrotra suggests 15 Indian travel destinations where you can cool off your heels this summer.
Israel has broken its tourism record of Indian arrivals for the second consecutive year!
Euro fell from the 83-mark to around 67.
Airtel on Wednesday said its customers can enjoy free unlimited incoming calls on international roaming while travelling to popular destinations like the US, Canada, the UK and Singapore.
The depreciating rupee against dollar is burning a bigger hole in the pockets of Indians travelling abroad with travel firms hiking charges to offset the impact.
Indian traveller is no longer satisfied with a single annual vacation, but is increasingly demanding multiple holidays and festive breaks offer an ideal opportunity.
Indian appetite for adventure tourism is increasing consistently, with the segment seeing an over 10 per cent year on year increase in travellers.
As per TripIndex Breakfast 2015, a TripAdvisor cost comparison study, Mumbai ranks 11th among the best value destinations for an overnight stay with breakfast costing Rs 9,343.92.
India's newest airline-Vistara is bullish on growth prospects.
Concur and Cleartrip through their partnership will target the rapidly-burgeoning Indian corporate travel segment.
The Harvard alum has known the Yale alum for ages, but hit it off recently.
Air India has deployed a B787 Dreamliner aircraft for the Delhi-Moscow-Delhi sector and offered attractive promotional fares.
The two companies signed an agreement today. Holidaybreak's shareholders will get 432.1 pence per share in cash, a premium of 35.5 per cent to the closing price of the company's shares on July 22.
Amit Madhan, national manager, retail products, ICICI Lombard GIC, talks about the most important things that students, business and leisure travellers must know while buying travel insurance.
If you're planning to visit Bali this year, you're on the right track; the recent TripAdvisor survey has listed it as a hot favourite vacation destination among Indian travellers.
Operation Sankat Mochan, aimed at evacuating over 500 Indians stuck in the war-torn South Sudan, got underway on Thursday.
The pioneer in heritage hotel movement claimed that there is large-scale misconception that staying in heritage hotels is a costly affair.
While Paris, which ranked the 10th position last year has moved upward to the eighth spot, followed by Las Vegas.
Gulf carrier Emirates on Wednesday announced special fares for honeymooners from India, offering an up to 20 per cent discount on both business and economy class travel, to select destinations, including London and Paris.
Indians make up the largest expatriate population in Bahrain with more than 300,000 residing in the Kingdom.
In 2015, 130,000 Indians visited Turkey.
Earlier, the limit for the amount of cash that Indians could in foreign exchange for overseas travel was $2,000.
Etihad has high hopes from Jet Airways deal in which it bought out majority stake in 2013.
Travel companies and agencies are offering early bird discounts going up to 40 per cent. Priyadarshini Maji reports
From those fresh out of school to retired couples, there is a new emerging segment of travellers keen to see the world in their own specific way.
The government will soon give infrastructure status to the tourism sector, enabling hotels to get cheaper loans for new projects, said a senior government official.
For travellers who are flexible with dates and destinations, luxury accommodation in particular is currently offering first-class value for money.
Here are five top destinations offering luxury accommodation on a budget.
The South Australian government is expecting around 20,000 Indian travellers for the marquee clash of the 2015 World Cup between India and Pakistan scheduled at the revamped Adelaide Oval on February 15.
The launch is timed around the festive and holiday season in India and Indian travelers will have convenient flight options from five cities in India to Las Vegas, a press release said. Indian travellers will not only have convenient flight options from five cities but also 45 flights per week to Las Vegas.
"At present, our credit card base is 7.5 million," he said. Sachin Khandelwal, senior general manager for retail assets, however, declined to comment on specific details, such as the magnitude of the reduction in the bank's credit card business over the past year. The country's second-largest lender, which spearheaded the growth of retail finance in the country, has also been going slow on retail loans for the past few years.
It's the age of the DIY travellers.
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