SME Times News Bureau | 21 Apr, 2018
The 10th edition
of the Great Indian Travel Bazaar (GITB) 2018, an
important event for travel trade businesses and SMEs,
will be held in Jaipur from April
22
to
April
24.
The
inaugural session will be held at Hotel Lalit on April
22 and
the pre-structured meetings and exhibition will be held on 23rd and
24th April
at the Jaipur Exhibition and Convention Center (JECC) in Sitapura.
Commenting
on the event, Additional
Chief Secretary, Tourism, Art & Culture, Government of
Rajasthan, Subodh
Agarwal said
that
on the occasion, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje
shall grace the inaugural session as Chief Guest.
Over
the years GITB has emerged as one of the most important
travel marts for inbound tourism.
The
two-day event will see fruitful networking giving a further boost to
the travel trade business in the State, he added.
FICCI
Past President and Chairperson FICCI Tourism Committee, Jyotsana
Suri said that in a span of 10 years, GITB has
gone from strength to strength and is now a force to reckon with in
the inbound tourism marts.
This
year there will be around 11,000 B2B structured pre-fixed meetings
between buyers and sellers over 2 days.
As
many as 280 leading inbound foreign tour operators (FTO) from around
55 countries are participating as foreign buyers. Similarly, 270
Indian sellers - among whom are tour operators, hotels and State
Governments, spread across 298 booths - will also be participating in
the bazaar.
