Delhi : The country’s biggest travel show, TTF&OTM, was inaugurated today, 24 Feb 2011, at the Ashok Hotel, by Shri Sultan Ahmed, Hon’ble Minister of State for Tourism, Government of India, in the presence of senior diplomats and a large number of dignitaries and officials from the travel and hospitality industry from all over India and abroad.

India is a coveted outbound market, currently with 12 million Indians traveling overseas annually, and a growth rate of 12-13 per cent per year projected till 2015. As many as 27 countries are represented at the show apart from participation from 17 Indian States.

Mr. Ahmed said that travel and tourism remained a key driver of economic growth globally.

amber fort during sound and light show, jaipur, originally uploaded by indiaimagegallery (ashokaholidays).

"India is a land of festivals and fairs". That’s what I inherited and mugged-by-heart during my early essay-writing classes. I never questioned this time-worn expression then. Now, I believe in it.

Our office's backyard was littered with 10 of these cute little puppies. The video is from their good-old mummy days. the pups are still there for adoption.

We posted the thing on facebook,

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Stray-Adoption/187536994608352

More than the pale looking campaign on facebook our friends network worked for 1 lucky pup that found home.Now we are left with 4 of them.

Next time you wish to travel with a difference or a subject add religion to it. India will surely cross your mind and itinerary. Let us find a little.

India's religious identity, today, is an expression formed by the presence of world's oldest religion and customs complimented by those of the incoming explorers, traders, immigrants, invaders and conquerors, which gave birth to many of its off-shoot school of thoughts and practices and religions.

Venue: Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh

Time Period : 1 - 7 March 2011

This annual Festival is organized jointly by the Uttarakhand Tourism and Parmarth Niketan Ashram. The program includes over 100 hours of Yoga classes from world class Yoga teachers plus evening discussions with some of India's leading spiritual leaders

Daily Program

Start everyday at 6.30 am with a 1 hour yoga class, followed by a simple breakfast.

'kathaa kahe so kathak' , meaning 'that which tells a Story is Kathak'

The North Indian dance style Kathak is one of India's eight classical dance forms. Kathak, meaning a storyteller were originally the nomadic bards of ancient Northern India which also included Pakistan. Narrating mythological and moral tales from scriptures during those period Kathak, evolved into a much bigger dance form involving influences from the Bhakti era, Mughal Era and from Central Asia.

If the title sounds too worn-out to be even bothered a feel, Delhi, Agra and/or Jaipur also appear on two of our special tours to India

‘The Taste of India - a gourmet tour in India’   ‘Knotty India Affair - a wedding tour in India’ Delhi - Agra - Jaipur…anyone who has slightest of hint about tourist places in India can easily decipher what is being referred to. They are the three vertices of the most sellable and much talked about triangle tour in the heart of India.

"...Initially, I asked my wife for any five reasons to invest our time and money on some Dance festival in some part of India, to which came her retort:

“The festival of Indian Dances… classical and all...performed by the best in the field…I have been waiting for such a thing and Khajuraho Dance festival is late” “Weather’s great at the tropics” “Venue is a beach resort and its beaches are inviting” “Venue’s a world heritage site too and the bas relief is the largest in the world” “I have made

Ashokaholidays does a surprise visit to Sameer Gupta - aka Uncle Sam - at his kitchen where the class for Italian delicacy is on. Uncle Sam, the renowned Culinary Expert , is one of Ashokaholidays' Food-Mentor cum Chef for the gourmets from around the world.
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