Hotels roll out red carpet for year-end vacationers

After a better-than-expected Dussehra weekend, hospitality firms are hopeful of ending the year on a positive note by doing good business over Christmas and the New Year. Typically, year-end......

Hotels and travel firms look for summer relief

Online travel agents and hotels are seeing traction build gradually for the upcoming season. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com After a dry spell induced by Covid-19 last year, hotels and those......

Marriott hotels to add 7 new properties in India

Five of these will be in leisure locations — two in Goa, and one each in Mahabaleshwar, Thiruvananthapuram, and Dehradun. Marriott International is looking to make deeper inroads into......

Finally, some good news for tourism sector

Goa, Kerala, Maldives and Dubai are among the popular destinations. Pent-up demand coupled with the gradual easing of restrictions is giving hopes to the travel sector, which has been badly......

What India thinks of Sunny Leone

As Sunny Leone's film Mastizaade hit screens amidst a wave of unprecedented social media support for her, Ritika Bhatia finds out what India thinks of the actor. 'Oh my god, oh my god, I think I'm......

Why you should head to Goa RIGHT NOW!

'One afternoon, I spotted Karan Johar and film critic Rajeev Masand having tea with Nina Gupta, the head of NFDC, and barged into their meeting.' Aseem Chhabra's IFFI diaries... Image: Gulzar and......

Goa IFFI: Bureaucracy on the Beach

Aseem Chhabra encounters an Indian dinosaur at the Goa film festival. Wishes do come true. In the late 1970s as a college student in Delhi, I promised myself that one day I will make a career out......

Vote: Who makes a better Masterchef host? Akshay or Vikas Khanna?

Second time's a charm, right? Doing away with celebrity hosts, the second season of MasterChef India lets food be the real star of its show.  Barring Akshay Kumar's omission, the concept......