{"id":5766,"date":"2017-11-22T06:44:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T06:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/?page_id=5766"},"modified":"2017-12-01T07:47:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T07:47:38","slug":"facilitating-growth-in-bilateral-travel-between-india-and-australia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/facilitating-growth-in-bilateral-travel-between-india-and-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Facilitating Growth in Bilateral Travel Between India and Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/philipa.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5770\" src=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/philipa-300x153.png\" alt=\"philipa\" width=\"509\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/philipa-300x153.png 300w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/philipa-1024x522.png 1024w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/philipa-589x300.png 589w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/philipa.png 1425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Australia India Travel &amp; Tourism Council (AITTC) organised a strategic round table in Sydney, with the theme being &#8220;Opportunities &amp; Challenges for Bilateral Tourism&#8221;.\u00a0 The Objective was to facilitate growth in bilateral travel between Australia and India. It provided a platform for the industry to communicate, consult and collaborate on tourism between the two countries.\u00a0 Big\u00a0tour operators, airlines, hotels, airports and media operating in the Australia -India travel domain represented their membership.\u00a0They see Tourism Australia and India Tourism as\u00a0 two top stakeholders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> The idea of this workshop was to get together with some key industry members, stakeholders and influencers, to hear from key participants on issues affecting Australia tourism growth;\u00a0 to understand the growth\u00a0potential; and finally come up with some strategic initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In addition to Tourism Australia\u00a0and India Tourism, the Indian\u00a0High Commissioner, DFAT,\u00a0 Austrade,\u00a0 Sydney based tour operators, hotels , airlines, airports, media\u00a0 also attended the conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0To set the scene for the\u00a0actual round table session\u00a0, there were brief presentations from the tourism authorities and few of the outbound\u00a0tour operators regarding issues and opportunities which they faced for tourism from India to Australia\u00a0and vice versa.\u00a0 Thomas Cook India was approached for the video , featuring Abraham Alapatt and Rajeev Kale, which was shared and showcased at the event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5766 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"conference\" href='http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/facilitating-growth-in-bilateral-travel-between-india-and-australia\/conference\/'><img width=\"966\" height=\"726\" src=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/conference.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/conference.png 966w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/conference-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/conference-399x300.png 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"sandip\" href='http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/facilitating-growth-in-bilateral-travel-between-india-and-australia\/sandip\/'><img width=\"1033\" height=\"775\" src=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sandip.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sandip.png 1033w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sandip-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sandip-1024x768.png 1024w, http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/sandip-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1033px) 100vw, 1033px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sandip Hor<strong>,\u00a0 <\/strong>Chairman, Australia India Travel &amp; Tourism Council, said: &#8220;On behalf of AITTC, I thank you for\u00a0the kind video clippings which were presented\u00a0at the round\u00a0table conference yesterday. It was very pertinent to the current scenario , raising thoughts and questions.\u00a0 The conference was well attended by senior executives of Tourism Australia, India Tourism, tour operators, hotels, airlines and government . The Indian High Commissioner to Australia was also personally present. According to all attendees, the entire proceedings of the conference\u00a0were very informative, and the actual\u00a0round table discussion following the presentations generated thoughts and\u00a0action points. We hope to compile them in a report to be submitted to all in due course.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\r\n<a style=\"color: rgb(68,79,247);\" href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/\">Home<\/a>\r\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australia India Travel &amp; Tourism Council (AITTC) organised a strategic round table in Sydney, with the theme being &#8220;Opportunities &amp; Challenges for Bilateral Tourism&#8221;.\u00a0 The Objective was to facilitate growth in bilateral travel between Australia and India. It provided a platform for the industry to communicate, consult and collaborate on tourism between the two&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/facilitating-growth-in-bilateral-travel-between-india-and-australia\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5766"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5766\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pulseonline.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}