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The Great Indian
Travel Bazaar 2008, April 21-23, 2008, Jaipur, India
As many as 163 foreign tour operators and travel writers
from 42 countries across the world assembled in Jaipur for
the Great Indian Travel Bazaar '08 (GITB '08) for three days
(April 21-23, 2008) to take a pie of the booming Indian travel
market with around 3000 structured, formal and informal B2B
meetings fructified.
The first-ever pan-India travel mart being organized by FICCI,
Union Ministry of Tourism, Department of Tourism, Government
of Rajasthan had focused exclusively on inbound tourism with
structured Business-to-Business meetings between foreign buyers
and sellers of the Indian tourism product.
The GITB '08 was inaugurated by Smt. Vasundhara Raje, Hon'ble
Chief Minister of Rajasthan. Smt. Ambika Soni, Hon'ble Union
Minister for Tourism and Culture, was the Chief Guest.
Around 275 booths at the exhibition venue of GITB '08 showcased
the diverse tourism products of India. The state governments
had evinced keen interest in the travel mart with West Bengal,
Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Tripura, Jharkhand, Gujarat, Karnataka,
Tamil Nadu, Uttaranchal, Haryana, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim
and Uttar Pradesh joining the mart.
The business sessions addressed strategic policy issues with
decision makers and new products being promoted by the various
state governments. GITB '08 was instrumental in putting various
destinations of India in the itineraries of the foreign buyers
and paved the way to witness incremental group, charter, series
and FIT movements to India.
Social networking events, delightful Indian cuisine, craft
bazaar, vibrant cultural programmes, Horse Polo match and
hosted FAM tours for the foreign buyers added colors to GITB
'08.
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