Monday, October 1, 2001		Entertainment

IT’S going to be bonanza time for the holiday lovers as dull season is about to end and the holiday season is soon to begin. Very soon the schools and colleges would be announcing autumn break and there would be a rush to the holiday destinations. It is time that you plan your holidays and get the reservations done. Though this time, due to the war fears looming large, the influx of tourists in India is low and tour operators are offering heavy discounts for the forthcoming holiday season. The best way to plan your holiday is to search the Web for all tours and travel options and then decide on your holiday plan. Normally, all big hotels, tour operator and also the tourist destinations have a Website of their own and all necessary information about the same is present there. For example, there is a Website of all state tourism corporations like Rajasthan Tourism, UP Tourism etc, and you can find plenty of information related to holiday destinations, boarding and lodging etc. However, if you are interested in packaged tours, then you can find hundreds of good site on the Internet. One such good site on travel and tours is www.indianvisit.com/india.

This site offers services for tours booking, package booking, hotel bookings, air bookings, itinerary planning and tailor-made holiday, conventions, conferences and exhibitions etc. Moreover, this site offers holiday solutions for all Budgets plans and thus caters to a wide range of options. Similarly, there is another travel site called www.travel-monitor.com, which also has some interesting tour options. The tours offered on this site are categorised as special Indian tours like North India, South India, East India, West India, cultural tours, wildlife and adventure tours. You can explore all these and many more tours available on this site and can learn more about them. www.chhutti.com is another great site for holiday lovers. As the name suggests it has lot of interesting options for the holidays.

Some of the tours offered by this site are golden tour covering Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Jaipur, regent Mumbai tour and Andaman Island odyssey covering the most sought after tourist destination in India. Other nice tours are Cidade de Goa, Honeymoon packages, Pushkar resorts etc. This site also offering huge discounts on its packages. Other than these, you can also find travel news, latest happenings in the world of tourism, hotel and ticket booking etc. on this site. In a nutshell, you can find a lot of interesting information about travel and holiday on various sites on the Internet and this is the right time to plan your holiday. — IV