On the 29th of February, the Indian National Budget was released. To say it was a disappointment for us in the Indian tourism industry would be an understatement. The industry received No additional benefits or reductions in levies. No progressive measures for tourism or hospitality at all. Infact, taxes have gone up on all services in the country, including tourism and that we expect will impact all prices by at least 1-2% which doesn’t sound a lot but in the scheme of things it adds up. The industry is also lobbying against off a huge hike in monument entrance fees that the Ministry of Culture wants to apply. Overall, India showed a very weak 2015 and these actions do not help in the destination recovery.

 

As a company, we have also introduced some new marketing support initiatives. You may have seen the new webinar series “Crafted by Creative’. Our first one on ‘Honeymoons in India’ was very well received and our second one on “India – Getting the bascs right” is slated for 16 March, Wednesday.

 

A few specialist products have been released as well. if you would like us to send them to you, please let us know. 

 

We have more exciting initiatives available for you. Some are meant for travel industry professionals to come and experience India and Creative's award winning services first hand at a very special offer. Other initiatives are special offerings for you to market on to your client base. We encourage you to send through your thoughts on what you think could work for your markets, so that we can have the team customize a product set for you. We at Creative intend to aggressively push the price competitiveness of India in its shoulder period as we feel the market is turning around for us all and let's use that to gain some interaction and make up for lost business.

 

You shall see some new and exciting initiatives in the next season from Team Creative. New experiential inclusions, new circuits, new concepts... We take pride in our ability to make a trip to the Indian sub-continent something very different.

Crafted by Creative - The Webinar Series by Creative Travel
 

Our next webinar is on Wednesday, 16th March on "India- Getting the basis right”

In this session, we will cover Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, main sights as well as offbeat destinations and how itineraries can be created to suit your clients requirements.

Please click below to register.

Andrew and I have landed back in Canada, and wanted to write and thank you and the Creative team for an incredible first visit to India! We appreciated your responsiveness while we were in-country and having a local cell made it that much easier. Our driver, Mr. Singh, was absolutely fantastic and we felt in great hands the whole trip.

 

Thank you! And we hope to connect again.

Warmly,

Sarah & Andrew

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