India - JAXFAX Travel Marketing Magazine

Touring India With The Experts
A As it celebrates its 250th anniversary, Cox & Kings.
www.coxandkingsusa.com, is a premium brand in all
travel related services in the Indian subcontinent, employing
over 800 trained professionals. Its India operations are headquartered
in Mumbai. It has over 12 fully owned offices in India
across key cities such as New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore,
Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Hyderabad, Pune, Goa, Nagpur and
Jaipur. Its Signature Escorted Travel, is limited to 18 participants
and features at least one C&K Signature Event, and is led by
its most popular Escorts. The typical number of travelers is only
nine. Custom Designed Travel is among its options as you may
want to help develop a one of a kind luxury experience. The
company offers safaris for individuals, and families.
Collette Vacations, www.collettevacations.com. offers a
16-day “Mysteries of India”, including a two-night stay in a
palace, stays at five-star Taj Hotels, an elephant ride to Amber
Fort, a horse and carriage or "Tonga" ride to the Taj Mahal, a visit
to Mother Theresa's Charity Home. Departures available are:
Jan. 15, March 5, May 28, and Oct. 15, 2009. Land rates range
from $2,849 per person double for the May departure to $3,999
per person double in Jan. and March.
Goway Travel, www.goway.com, offers an ultimate fully escorted
20-day Splendors of India package--one of their signature
Holidays of a Lifetime trips. Departing February 2, 2009
the tour is priced from $9,759 per person double with roundtrip
airfare out of Los Angeles with British Airways.
Hariworld, www.hariworld.com headquartered in New
York, has branch offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los
Angeles and San Francisco all ARC approved, plus an office
in New Delhi, which is IATA approved.
Canada-based Indus Travels, www.industravels.ca, has recently
introduced its Luxury Collection. Among its current portfolio
is the seven-night, “Yoga, the Healing Touch” priced from $897
for land arrangements only. The program visits the Taj Mahal in
Agra; accommodations are at the Ashram in Rishikesh and include
yoga sessions and sightseeing. Additionally, a nine-night
program, “Kerala Explorer” includes a boat trip at Peryar National
Park, a sunset cruise at Kumarakom and dance performances at
Cochin. Besides India, Indus also custom-designs travel to Nepal,
Sri Lanka, Maldives, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan and Dubai.
Picasso Tours, www.portsofindia.com, has introduced a
new product line to the subcontinent dubbed Ports of India.
Programs focus on north, south, central, east and west India in
a series of programs with enormous variety and options. The
Chopra is catalyst for Guide
Ram Chopra is well known in the travel industry.
He has straddled both sides of the
fence: the public and private sectors and has
landed squarely at the source of his passion, his beloved
India. His career spans nearly half a century. In that time,
he has been involved with tourism promotion, marketing
and salesmanship on every level of the industry.
A catalyst for this supplement, Chopra said, “The decision
for India Tourism and Jax Fax to collaborate on producing
this travel guide for India right now is very timely.” He
added, “While traveling at home and to nearby countries
and states is becoming arduous due to the fury of gas
prices, air travel to India has become very affordable due to
the availability of seats both on the direct and stopover
flights.” Additionally, hotel accommodations have also been
enhanced in all categories especially in the three and fourstar
properties. Add to this, India’s portfolio of grand rail luxury
journeys for what may quite possibly position India as
the very best foreign destination buy this year.
A PATA Gold Award winner, Chopra headed the Government
of India Tourist Office, New York when India promotion
was at its earliest stage in the U.S. It is no surprise
Chopra reappeared in the market at the helm of the North
American operations for Indian tour operator SANS Incredible
Vacations.
Call Ram Chopra, Sans Incredible Vacations at 212-695-
1005, 888-9C-INDIA; 347-323-2252 or visit www.sansincrediblevacations.com.
10 SEPTEMBER 2008 • JAXFAX INDIA SALES GUIDE SUPPLEMENT