Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Apr 24: Taking forward the publicity campaign of J&K Tourism in global market, a team of J&K tourism participated in a 3-day Get India a Global Exhibition on Tourism at Pragati Maidan here. The exhibition was inaugurated last evening by Prime Minster of India.
Those who participated in the event include Dy. Director Tourism, Central, Peerzada Zahoor, Tourist Officer, New Delhi, Pamila Kachroo, Marketing Manager, JKTDC, Dilli Haat C.B. Kaul, Tourist Officer, Yangchan Dolma, event coordinator , besides prominent members of various travel bodies of J&K.
The GET India (Global Exhibition on Tourism) organized by Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism & Hospitality (FAITH) has provided an opportunity to the tourist states of India to have business with international buyers from across the globe.
In this direction, a team of officers from Tourism Department on the directions of Director Tourism, Kashmir/MD,JKTDC, Farooq Ahmad Shah got an opportunity to interact with the international buyers who have participated in the event in large numbers.
As many as 110 international buyers visited J&K Stall and showed lot of interest to know about the tourism products of the state. Most of them assured the J&K Tourism team that in near future, that J&K would be the preferred tourist destination .
While interacting with the foreign buyers, officers of J&K Tourism briefed the buyers about various tourism products of J&K and informed them that J&K is the only State in the world which possesses all kind of tourism products be it leisure, skiing, rafting, pilgrimage, heritage, golfing, angling, border tourism, trekking, mountaineering, rock climbing and other many products available in the three regions of the State.
The officers of J&K Tourism and office bearers of various travel bodies of J&K provided them a brief about different tourism products of J&K and acquainted them about new destinations of tourism spots across J&K besides providing them tourism promotional literature.