Travel Designer India to foray into inbound tourism operations under 'Designer Indya' brand

Ahmedabad-based, Travel Designer India Pvt. Ltd., which caters to the B2B segment, is all set to foray into inbound tourism operations under the brand 'Designer Indya'. Designer Indya will start operations from the coming financial year 2009-2010 (from April 1, 2009) with major inbound operations taken care of from Travel Designer India's Ahmedabad and New Delhi office. It will start catering to visitors from the coming inbound season from September 2009. Travel Designer India has also applied for recognition of approved Inbound Tour Operator from the Ministry of Tourism (MoT) for Designer Indya. “The MoT has already conducted their inspection of the sites and we are expecting to receive the recognition soon,” informed Jaal Shah, Managing Director, Travel Designer India Pvt. Ltd.

Designer Indya will cater to source markets like Middle East and South East Asian markets and is targeting the luxury segment for inbound tourism business with a special focus on catering to FIT travellers for luxury products. It will promote Indian attractions like the Golden Triangle, luxury trains and destinations in North India and Kerala in South India. The brand Designer Indya will also host a website www.designerindya.com where visitors will be able to book packages to India and a host of other things. “Luxury products will be more or less sold offline; where as regular products will be sold on the website. Considering the situation across the globe, we have not really kept any targets though we will cater to each client possible,” explained Shah.

Furthermore, Travel Designer India which operates www.rezlive.com, an online booking portal for its B2B network of agents is now also capable of empowering other travel portals with their inventory through XML connections. Travel Designer India is open to empowering various travel portals of Indian as well as international travel companies. “We are now capable of providing our inventory for countries like Mauritius, Middle East and also South East Asian destinations to other travel portals and we are holding talks with a few other companies to do the same. Also the Indian hotel content on rezlive.com will be transferred to www.designerindya.com website and agents will be redirected to the Designer Indya website from the rezlive.com to book for Indian hotels,” concluded Shah.

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