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Cyprus lures Indian outbound for MICE

The tourism organisati­on shared its India market plans and showcased its tourism products for leisure, corporate meetings and incentive travels as part of its plan to woo the Indian travellers during the event.

- TT BUREAU

The Cyprus Tourism Organisati­on (CTO) announced its entry into the Indian tourism market at its Delhi leg of the India roadshow.

According to Vassilis Theocharid­es, Director, CTO; the associatio­n has been monitoring the Indian travel industry for quite some time. “In recognitio­n of the country’s potential as a big outbound tourist market, we intend to initiate activities that help us reach out to a majority of the travel trade community in India. We are targetting Delhi and Mumbai during the first phase of our promotiona­l campaign as these cities generate maximum number of outbound business travel from India.” CTO also took its roadshow to Mumbai. The roadshow featured interactio­ns between the delegates from Cyprus and their Indian counterpar­ts from the Indian travel industry.

The country is wellequipp­ed with world-class infrastruc­ture to host big scale events. It is currently offering a number of incentives for business travel in order to attract corporate and small groups of travellers from India. Starting with business-class hotels that give visitors the convenienc­e of staying in the same place as their events to sophistica­ted communicat­ion facilities and support services, as well as a safe and crime-free environmen­t, the island has

We intend to initiate activities that help us reach out to a majority of the travel trade community in India

everything to make corporate meetings, convention­s, incentives or other corporate events a success. Indian travellers visiting Cyprus can indulge in a number of holidaying activities as the island is a new destinatio­n and largely unexplored. Charming villages of the Byzantine era, peninsulas with unique diversitie­s, an endless offering of a broad range of local cuisines and numerous reconstruc­ted dwellings and archaeolog­ical sites that are in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List are just some of the tourism products that Cyprus offers to its visitors.

 ??  ?? Vassilis Theocharid­es
Director, CTO
Vassilis Theocharid­es Director, CTO

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