BRICS convention in Khajuraho
The Ministry of Tourism is all set to organise a tourism convention of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations in August this year, ahead of the upcoming visits of the heads of states of these countries in November.
The Ministry of Tourism has asked Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) to organise B2B meetings at the BRICS nations convention, which would be held in Khajuraho in August 2016, revealed Rajiv Mehra, Vice President, IATO, while speaking at the IATO monthly interactive luncheon meeting. “MOT has received a directive from the Prime Minister to organise a tourism related convention for BRICS nations in Khajuraho on August 31-September 1, 2016. The event will be in line with the visit of the heads of states of BRICS nations to India in November. MOT will host 25 tour operators from each of the BRICS nations for the event, where the 1st day will be devoted to the convention and second day will have B2B meetings. The ministry has asked IATO to fix the B2B meetings and has asked us to submit a few details,” he revealed.
However, Mehra said that the event is still in the planning stage and there are many things to be finalised. “The proposal for the event has been sent to the Ministry of External Affairs. We have asked MOT to let us know of the participants by August 14, 2016. Once eve- rything is finalised we will be writing to our members for participating in the B2B meetings,” he revealed.
However, he claimed that owing to the BRICS convention, the annual IATO convention might need to be postponed. “In view of this convention, we might have to do some adjustments in the dates of our annual convention as well,” he said.