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INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT FACILITIES |
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The international
airports offer a range of services ensuring that the traveller
on business can continue working while waiting to catch an
international connection, or when transferring between international
flights. These include gourmet restaurants, business centres
and are equipped with state of the art equipment including
word processors and telefax. Airports also provide the tourist
with such facilities for leisure as duty-free and handicrafts
shopping, informal snack bars, nursery and baby care rooms,
and even an art gallery. Duty-free prices in the airport shops
are very competitive, offering you bargains on international
merchandise. |
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INLAND
TRAVELS |
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Indian
Airlines |
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Ranked as the world's second
largest domestic IATA airlines outside USA, Indian Airlines
commands a large and modern fleet of A300, A320 and B737
aircraft.
Indian Airlines (IC) network,
spanning the country's 3,000 km from Leh in the north to
Thiruvananthapuram in the south, and about the same from
east to west, covers all important places of tourist interest
linking 55 cities in India and 17 in fourteen neighbouring
countries : Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan,
Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Also included is Kuwait
and Kuala Lumpur.
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Fares |
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IC offers a variety of special
fares aimed at encouraging tourist travel within the country.
These include . |
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Discover
India, US$750, permits unlimited travel within India
for 21 days. |
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India
Wonderfares, US$300, permits unlimited travel within
India for 21 days. |
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South
India Excursion, 30 per cent discount on US$ tariff
for travel on specific South Indian Sectors. |
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Youth
Fare, 25 per cent off on US$ tariff for all tourists
between the ages of 12 and 30. |
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Reservations
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Reservations
on IC can be made from any where abroad in a matter of minutes
through the SITA Airlines Communications System which is linked
to the airline's Real Time Computer Reservation System. |
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IC has inter-line
agreements with over 120 airlines worldwide and the offices
of any of these airlines or their agents have been enabled
to issue tickets on IC flights. |
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To facilitate
group tourists in obtaining reservations, IC is guaranteeing
confirmed seats to all foreign tour groups of 10 or more passengers
provided booking is requested more than four months in advance
on all Airbus and selected B737 tourist services. |
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Private
Airlines |
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Jet Airways
and Sahara Airlines are two major private carriers. They operate
metro routes, tourist circuits and also offer special fares
to discover India. Smaller airlines like Archana and Jagsons
in the north and Gujarat Airways in the west provided feeder
services to smaller towns. Jet and Sahara have either their
own offices or representative offices in major countries abroad. |
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Railways |
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The Indian
Railways system is the largest in Asia and the second largest
it the world among systems under a single management. Daily,
ore than 11 million people - or more than 1.4 percent of India's
population - board the trains.
Everybody more
than 1 million tonnes of freight traffic are lifted by Indian
Railways.
Nearly 11,000
trains crisis-cross about 62,500 kilometers of rail route,
connecting 7,084 railway stations scattered over the far-flung
parts of the vast country. |
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Indrail
Pass |
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Indian Railways
have introduced the facility of Indrail Passes which offer
all budget visitors the facility to travel as they like over
the entire Indian railway system without any route restriction
and within the period of validity of he ticket. Indrail passes
are sold only to foreign nationals and Indians residing abroad
holding valid passports. Payment is accepted only in US Dollars
and Pound Sterling. A tourist travelling on Indrail pass is
exempt from paying reservation fees, sleeper charges and extra
supplementary charges for travelling by Superfast trains which
are otherwise chargeable in the case of ordinary tickets. |
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