Water Tourism

Emerging from the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea, Hans-Juergen Fercher has just returned from his fourth dive to where mounds of 2,500-year-old wine pots mark the site of an ancient shipwreck -- and Greece's first underwater museum.

New Year's Eve 2020: Snowfall in Kashmir brought cheer to tourists and locals linked with the tourism industry. Gulmarg is seeing more tourist footfalls in the New Year holiday season. Kashmir is in the grip of 'Chillai-Kalan' or the 40-day harshest winter period when a severe cold wave grips the region and the temperatures drop leading to the free...

An economic reliefpackage of Rs 1,350 crore was announced this afternoon for Jammu and Kashmir's ailing business sector - hit hard by prolonged Covid lockdown and the outbreak - by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, who took oath last month as the union territory's L-G. A discount of 50 per cent for people of J&K in water and electricity bills for a ...

The Madhya Pradesh government on Sunday allowed resumption of water tourism in the state with 50 per cent capacity and asked boat and cruise operators to strictly follow COVID-19 prevention guidelines.

The Centre is promoting water tourism by undertaking riverfront development and setting a target of increasing the number of cruise ships in the country to 1,000, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday.

"It's like getting stabbed," a tourist exclaims as he plunges into the three degree Celsius (37 Fahrenheit) water, all under the intrigued gaze of a group of penguins.

The hill town of Shimla has been a tourist hotspot since the British era, generating large amounts of revenue for Himachal Pradesh. However, this year the picture of the usually bustling capital appears bleak. Water scarcity for the past ten days has come as a major blow to the town, adversely affecting both tourism and business sector.

With the monsoon expected to arrive in Goa soon, the state government on Thursday issued an advisory asking tourists to refrain from swimming in sea waters along the beaches for four months starting on Friday.

The tourism industry in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla has also been massively hit as tourists are cancelling their visits to the hill station.

IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) offers food items and packaged drinking water at stations as well as Indian Railways trains. These catering services include standard tea, tea with tea bag, coffee, packaged drinking water, economy meal, standard breakfast and standard casserole meals, as mentioned on the official website of I...

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will now give an additional free bottle of 'Rail Neer' packaged drinking water to passengers travelling by Rajdhani and Duronto in case their journey is extended beyond 20 hours due to late running of trains, as mentioned in Indian Railways circular dated April 18, 2018. Currently, passengers'...

Goa Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar on Tuesday urged the police to take strict action against a former minister for driving a SUV on a beach and abusing a water sports operator.

A video has surfaced on Facebook that shows former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco driving away in an SUV after running over a water sport operator's neatly laid colourful parachute on a beach in the coastal state

Four major rivers, Jhelum, Chenab, Indus and Ravi in Jammu and Kashmir have been declared "national waterways" by the union government, paving the way for inland navigation on them to boost water transport and tourism, the state government has said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took a train from Kolkata, drove to inundated areas and walked in ankle-deep water to meet victims who have lost their homes, crops and livelihoods to incessant rains over the last week.

Emerging from the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea, Hans-Juergen Fercher has just returned from his fourth dive to where mounds of 2,500-year-old wine pots mark the site of an ancient shipwreck -- and Greece's first underwater museum.

New Year's Eve 2020: Snowfall in Kashmir brought cheer to tourists and locals linked with the tourism industry. Gulmarg is seeing more tourist footfalls in the New Year holiday season. Kashmir is in the grip of 'Chillai-Kalan' or the 40-day harshest winter period when a severe cold wave grips the region and the temperatures drop leading to the free...

An economic reliefpackage of Rs 1,350 crore was announced this afternoon for Jammu and Kashmir's ailing business sector - hit hard by prolonged Covid lockdown and the outbreak - by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, who took oath last month as the union territory's L-G. A discount of 50 per cent for people of J&K in water and electricity bills for a ...

The Madhya Pradesh government on Sunday allowed resumption of water tourism in the state with 50 per cent capacity and asked boat and cruise operators to strictly follow COVID-19 prevention guidelines.

The Centre is promoting water tourism by undertaking riverfront development and setting a target of increasing the number of cruise ships in the country to 1,000, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday.

"It's like getting stabbed," a tourist exclaims as he plunges into the three degree Celsius (37 Fahrenheit) water, all under the intrigued gaze of a group of penguins.

The hill town of Shimla has been a tourist hotspot since the British era, generating large amounts of revenue for Himachal Pradesh. However, this year the picture of the usually bustling capital appears bleak. Water scarcity for the past ten days has come as a major blow to the town, adversely affecting both tourism and business sector.

With the monsoon expected to arrive in Goa soon, the state government on Thursday issued an advisory asking tourists to refrain from swimming in sea waters along the beaches for four months starting on Friday.

The tourism industry in Himachal Pradesh's Shimla has also been massively hit as tourists are cancelling their visits to the hill station.

IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) offers food items and packaged drinking water at stations as well as Indian Railways trains. These catering services include standard tea, tea with tea bag, coffee, packaged drinking water, economy meal, standard breakfast and standard casserole meals, as mentioned on the official website of I...

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will now give an additional free bottle of 'Rail Neer' packaged drinking water to passengers travelling by Rajdhani and Duronto in case their journey is extended beyond 20 hours due to late running of trains, as mentioned in Indian Railways circular dated April 18, 2018. Currently, passengers'...

Goa Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar on Tuesday urged the police to take strict action against a former minister for driving a SUV on a beach and abusing a water sports operator.

A video has surfaced on Facebook that shows former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco driving away in an SUV after running over a water sport operator's neatly laid colourful parachute on a beach in the coastal state

Four major rivers, Jhelum, Chenab, Indus and Ravi in Jammu and Kashmir have been declared "national waterways" by the union government, paving the way for inland navigation on them to boost water transport and tourism, the state government has said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took a train from Kolkata, drove to inundated areas and walked in ankle-deep water to meet victims who have lost their homes, crops and livelihoods to incessant rains over the last week.