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? #OTM2020 ended with a colourful award ceremony in Mumbai. Yogendra Tripathy, secretary, department of tourism, government of India was the chief guest at the award show.
? Indonesia.Travel, Tourism Malaysia, Amazing Thailand, Nepal Tourism Board, Experience Egypt Tanzania Tourist Board and MagicalKenya were awarded with best stand decoration award in international category while Jammu And Kashmir Tourism, Goa Tourism Department, Uttarakhand Tourism, Odisha Tourism, Madhya Pradesh Tourism, Andhra Pradesh Tourism and Rajasthan Tourism were felicitated in the domestic category. Incredible India was awarded with most popular campaign award for ‘#DekhoApnaDesh’ campaign. #Myanmar and #Murmansk in #Russia were the most promising new destinations while Visit Greece won the award for the most popular European destination. Exclusive leisure destination awards went to Tourism Fiji, Visit Japan, Korea Tourism Organization – VisitKorea and Tourism of Cambodia while Visit Rwanda was awarded the exotic destination title.
?? “It is not only encouraging for the OTM travel show, but also very positive for the future of travel and tourism industry as a whole. Government of India is promoting tourism for the last few years in a very strong manner and we are getting the results for the same. The cumulative rate of foreign tourist arrivals have been growing above 8 pc. Skill development, employment generation, facilitating the hotel industry with GST restructuring and with e-visa making India preferable to foreign tourists remain our first priorities while at the same time we want more Indians to explore their own country under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat," said Yogendra Tripathi to Media India Group.
?? Sanjiv Agarwal, chairman and CEO, OTM & TTF (Fairfest Media) tells India Outbound, "OTM is not only the largest gathering of international participants in India, but there is also a huge gathering of domestic exhibitors from almost all the states led by the state tourism boards. More than 20,000 highly qualified travel trade visitors have already walked the show to do some serious business."
? On the sidelines, High Commission of the Republic of Rwanda conducted a destination briefing and networking lunch at The Westin Mumbai Garden City Hotel to present and promote their destination for the Indian market.
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