India is an important market for International airlines, but in these downbeat times, how do they grab footfalls? By ticketing taste buds with diverse gastronomical delights .But instead of a general Indian cuisine, specific regional delicacies are being rolled out. So if you feel homesick while flying abroad, there is idiappam, besan chilla, chettined vegetables, achari paneer, and Amritsari chole and bhangra baingan to remind you of home.

Desperate times require desperate measures and the global airline industry is no different.

The European Union on Saturday published a list of nearly 4,000 airlines that it says should reduce their impact on the environment from 2012 or face being banned from European airports.

Keen to pitch India as a world-class tourism destination, the government has asked states to construct and design civic amenities near tourist sites and conserve heritage monuments in keeping with the local ambience in order to attract more tourists.

The National Consumer Commission has cleared a travel agency of charges or deficiency in service levied against it by a man, who had taken the services of the agency for his foreign trip, and pulled him up for making unnecessary complaint.

Tourism ministry has warned states that it will stop funding Infrastructure projects in case works do not start within a year due to non-availability of land.

German airlines giant Lufthansa has cited serious difficulties in implementing the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) order asking the airlines to merge the fuel surcharge with the base fare. Lufthansa has said that it is not in accordance with the global norms.

Himachal Pradesh government has decided to draw a long-term plan to boost cinema-tourism in the state, which has been a destination for Bollywood film makers to shoot movies.

Luxury-hotel chains, the biggest losers in the lodging industry’s decline, are giving up some of their hard-won stars to save money.

As many as 16 hotel projects that are coming up in Delhi will fail to meet the Commonwealth Games deadline of September 2010, mounting more pressure on the government which has already been struggling to accommodate guests likely to attend the mega sporting event.