TOURISM DEPT INKS DEAL FOR ‘TRAVEL MART’

The department of tourism and government of Rajasthan on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Federation of Hospitality and Tourism of Rajasthan (FHTR) for organising the ‘Rajasthan Domestic Travel Mart’ 2018.

The event will be held from July 20 to July 22 at the BM Birla Auditorium in Jaipur. The department of tourism will be the host state partner for the event.

The MoU was signed between the additional director tourism, Sanjay Pande and the president, FHTR, Bhim Singh.

Addressing the gathering as chief guest, chief secretary Nihal Chand Goel said that the primary objective of ‘Rajasthan Domestic Travel Mart’ is to exclusively focus on the domestic tourists within Rajasthan from various parts of India and establish Rajasthan as one of the leading domestic tourist destinations in the country.

He said, “The vision 2020 initiated by the chief minister had an objective of five crore tourist footfall in the state by 2020. But we have attained close to 5 crore tourists in the year 2017 itself and with new initiatives like Travel Mart, we will be able to achieve the set goal and probably outperform our own predicted numbers.” Additional chief secretary, tourism, Subodh Agarwal said that this Mart is first of its kind in state and second in India.

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