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Brussels to open tourism office in India
New Delhi: Flemish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Media and Tourism, Geert Bourgeois on Monday said Brussels will open a tourism office in India. Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni, briefed the Flemish (a region in Belgium ) Minister about the economic reforms introduced by New Delhi . Also, both the Ministers agreed that today's meeting will help in promoting tourism and related activities. Soni said with a view to attract investment in tourism sector, the hotel and tourism related industry has been declared as a high priority industry for foreign investment and now 100 per cent direct investment was possible in it. She said Belgium experience can be brought in tourism infrastructure particularly in the hotel sector. Bourgeois assured that in view of the proposed direct flight from New Delhi to Brussels by an Indian private airline, package tours to India will be encouraged.
The
India tourism office located in Amsterdam that looks after tourism promotion
aspects in Belgium is participating in tourism fairs being held in Charleroi
, Brussels , Antwerpen and Wemmel in Belgium this month. Belgium is one
of important tourist generating markets for India . In 2005 more than
25,596 tourists visited India from Belgium and 19,479 tourists from India
visited Belgium in 2004.
-Feb 19, 2007
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