New Frontiers Award for India

India was named the recipient of the New Frontiers Award 2014 at a special roundtable seminar session held on the third day of the annual event. The award was made in recognition of India’s ongoing efforts to rebuild physical infrastructure and its rural tourism economy in the wake of the June 2013 floods and landslides in Uttarakhand, and the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Phailin in the Northeast in October. Receiving the award from Mark Walsh, Portfolio Director, Reed Travel Exhibitions, Devender Singh, Economic Advisor, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, said, “Tremendous effort is being made at all the levels in terms of rebuilding tourism infrastructure in the affected areas, from state government activity to financial support from the Government of India.”