Cox & Kings (India) Ltd is one of the renowned holiday brands that cater to the overall travel needs of an Indian and International traveler. The company's business can be broadly categorized as Leisure Travel, Corporate Travel, Forex and Visa Processing. The company also provides value added services such as customizing travel plans for the NRI customers, travel arrangements for Trade Fairs, providing private air charter services, etc. Besides, they offer travel related foreign exchange & payment solutions. The company is having their registered office situated at Mumbai.

The forthcoming Arabian Travel Market beginning in Dubai from early May is expected to highlight the initiatives of Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) for propelling growth of the tourism sector. The event will see more than 45 Abu Dhabi tourism delegates witness the launch of more than 80 products first time in the region.

Mubarak Al Nuaimi, International Promotions Manager, ADTA, said, "The product line-up reflects the destination's expanded offering and includes transports suppliers, hotel operators, major attractions, hospitality management companies, travel agents, tour operators, an international sports resort, MSC Cruises as well as desert, island, beach and golf resorts."

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has joined hands with world’s leading tour operator Arabian Smile Holidays in a bid to offer special deals to the visitors.

Both firms introduced a joint travel program ‘Abu Dhabi and Beyond by Arabian Smile Holidays’ for offering a range of facilities and discounts at various European and domestic routes.

The agreement has been signed in lines with Universal Travel Link & Services program that has been devised for offering the visitors with wide range of tour packages across various routes of Etihad. The airline will promote the renewable energy initiatives by highlighting its logo on their aircraft fleet during the month of April.

Dubai Customs expressed commitment for offering high quality customs services to all those visiting the nation through air, land or sea links. The department recently launched "Dubai Customs Passenger Charter" in line with its initiatives to offer world class services the visiting passengers.

Dubai Customs has introduced a framework for passengers clearly defining passengers' rights and duties with regards to customs services. It also introduced a mechanism for submitting suggestions, enquiries and complaints by the visiting passengers in line with the guidelines set under the ISO standards including 10001:2007.

India performed poorer than last year in travel and tourism industry as per a WEF report. This report ranked India at 68th position as compared its 62nd position last year.

World Economic Forum revealed its Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2011. As per this report, international tourists find it uncomfortable to have lesser number of ATMs and hotel rooms in India.

Heli Taxi services the first ever service offered by any ministry to facilitate high-end tourism in the country.

This morning Himachal chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal initiates the Heli taxi services in the valley to capture the high-end tourists. He flagged the first helicopter flight from Kullu from Annandale helipad.

Sim-Sam company is the owner of the helicopter. The minister has gifted Himachali cap and shawl to the first passenger boarded the flight to Kullu in the helicopter.

The Delhi Metro project in undeniably one of the most ambitious projects started by the government and it is making a lot of positive impact. However, as far as the harried commuter is concerned, it is becoming a mess by the day.

As more and more people are using the metro for their daily use, the fact of the matter is that the metro has run out of space and commuters are turning rude in their behaviour as the time is passing by.

Minister of State for Tourism Sultan Ahmed stated that the country will spend more than Rs 275 crore in order to endorse its destinations, art, ethnicity and custom to magnetize more vacationists out of the country.

Mr. Ahmed said that the plan was to spend around Rs 275 crore in 2010 as against Rs 240 crore in 2009.

India creates consciousness about its different products, which includes various destinations through the much awarded Incredible India drive.

India's largest travel-related website, MakeMyTrip ltd has said that it is going to sell some of its stock in the US through an IPO.

The total worth of the stakes is going to be around $100 million and the company is aiming at raising much more from the markets than this.

It is looking forward to list itself on the Nasdaq Global Market with the ticker symbol of MMYT, said the company which has been in operation for a decade.

As for the proceeds, they will be used for the purpose of various acquisitions as well as in other fields as well.

A lower registration of members has affected Mahindra Holidays and Resorts India's top and bottom-line of 23.6% and 60.6% respectively for the three month period ended June 2010 as against 2009's corresponding figures.

As per the declaration made by the company, Mahindra Holidays made a total income worth Rs 101 crore and a net profit of Rs 13.29 crore as compared to Rs 135.30 crore and Rs 33.74 crore made in the same period of the previous year.

The company has added 3,945 new members, which takes the total number of members to 113,829.

After the success of Yatra. com's '3G offer' now the travel portal has further extended its offer to the consumers. This new offer will reward the consumer's two guaranteed free domestic air tickets with every transaction. Earlier the offer was limited to just one free air ticket.

In order to avail the offer the customer has to just visit the website or book any travel arrangements through a 24x7 customer service helpline.

Currently the offer is valid till August 15, 2010 and spans across 21 cities, at Yatra. com's premium retail lounges.

Srinagar, July 11 : Tourism has been hit hard in Jammu and Kashmir following the recent strikes, and imposition of curfew by the government.

Most of the tourists have left the valley and the ones who are still there, are facing problems like shortage of food and basic amenities as the shops are closed.

“Definitely we feel sad because there are lots of things not functioning. There is no much choice, shops are closed because of the strike and curfew,” said Hemant Rathore, a tourist.

At present, tourist hubs like the Dal Lake are completely deserted, which has affected houseboat owners.

Thomas Cook (India) Ltd has inked a seven year agreement with Delhi International Airport Ltd.

The biggest travel and financial services firm in the country has launched 9 foreign exchange and travel counters at the newly opened Terminal 3 at the New Delhi International Airport.

It's time to rethink what actually constitutes a vacation as the summer travel season is here.

For many of us, a vacation starts with a trip to the airport and a hurry-up-and-wait for ticketing, security, check-in, boarding, takeoff and the flight itself. Throw in weather delays and by the time we get to our destinations, we wonder what possessed us.

The journey should be part of the equation, not the torture before and after, says Tom and Lorraine McMillan, co-founders of Flightlesstravel. com.

Recently the plan for the Penzance ferry includes replacing the two ferries with one larger vessel.

However the same may doesn’t have the assurance that the government may fund the proposed new ferry link between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.  Also the Plans for a £44m terminal in Penzance to make the links between the county and the islands had been pulled in front.

Further the Department of Transport expressed the schemes awarded to the conditional approval by the previous government shall not support by the current coalition.

For all the travellers an amazing offer in the form of promotional code has come up that comes in handy for all those frequently travel.

The offer that lasts until July 10, 2010, avails one to save 25 percent on the GoGo Internet in-flight Wi-Fi session. And thus, the offer is named as SAVE25.

A few things one needs to look-out whilst opting out for this offer is the 'gogoinflight' Wi-Fi signal at 10,000 ft, next thing comes with the opening of browser.

According to figures released by the tourism ministry, the country's foreign tourist arrivals during the last month (May 2010) increased by around 16% as compared to the same period of last year (May 2009).

The report said that foreign arrivals during May grew by 15.5% to 345,000 as against 299,000 in May 2009.

The foreign tourist arrivals in May 2008 stood at 304,000. In this way, there was a pessimistic growth of 1.9% during the last year from the year before.

The arrivals in May were much higher than in April 2010.

The service of Dubai metro is world class, but its quality is going to be more enhanced soon. The authorities are looking forward to introduce some better qualitative driverless metro systems in the country.

As per a recent survey report, the quality of Metro is the maximum in all across the globe. It has been found out that its service is even better than that of North East Line in Singapore and the Docklands Light Rail in London. It has scored around 99% in the quality rate.

It surely gives the commuters of Delhi a reason to smile. In an announcement made on Monday, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has announced that it air conditioned feeder buses will become operational.

Moreover, these buses will run on 20 routes. These buses were much awaited since while on one hand they connect the various stations of Metro Rail; on the other they promise a comfortable ride on the routes this summer

The announcement also said that the contractor has not yet been finalized but what routes are going to a part of this program have already been charted out.

British bus and rail operator National Express Group Plc said today that it had posted a good start of the year 2010 as it has delivered a good result in the first quarter of the year. The company said that its cost saving programs and stronger operational focus resulted into improved margins in the first quarter.

National Express said in its interim management statement that the profit across all of its businesses was reported up in the first quarter of 2010.