{"id":308642,"date":"2019-01-30T03:29:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308642"},"modified":"2019-01-30T03:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:29:17","slug":"india-bags-award-of-excellence-for-best-in-show-at-new-york-times-travel-show-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-bags-award-of-excellence-for-best-in-show-at-new-york-times-travel-show-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"India bags Award of Excellence for &#8216;Best in Show&#8217; at New York Times Travel Show 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308643 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/india-11-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/india-11-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/india-11-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/india-11-558x420.jpg 558w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/india-11.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India on Tuesday received the Award of Excellence for &#8216;Best in Show&#8217; at the recently concluded New York Times Travel Show 2019. It is the largest travel show in North America which is held from January 25 to January 27 in New York, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry of Tourism participated as the &#8216;Presenting Partner&#8217; in the New York Times Travel Show (NYTTS 2019) organised at the Jacob K Javits Centre with a view to scale up its tourism promotional efforts in the US, to enhance India&#8217;s visibility and to increase its share of US Outbound travel market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A high-level delegation led by Tourism Ministry Secretary Yogendra Tripathi and a number of stakeholders from India&#8217;s tourism industry participated in the Show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A number of India centric activities were organised at the show including &#8216;Focus on India&#8217; and consumer seminars, Indian cultural performances, Indian culinary demonstration, food tasting, etc.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Tourism Secretary also interacted with a number of leading travel professionals from the US at the trade key note session during the show and sought their continued support in positioning India in the US.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India was honoured during the closing bell ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Tuesday received the Award of Excellence for &#8216;Best in Show&#8217; at the recently concluded New York Times Travel Show 2019. It is the largest travel show in North America which is held from January 25 to January 27 in New York, USA. The Ministry of Tourism participated as the &#8216;Presenting Partner&#8217; in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10720,10721,574,5163,10722,10723,1799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308644,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308642\/revisions\/308644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}