Friday, September 12, 2014

Emirates Airline keen to promote tourism in Gujarat

Ahmedabad: UAE based Emirates Airline's senior vice president Majid Al-Maula Sheikh paid a courtesy visit to chief minister Anandiben Patel here. During the meeting Sheikh showed keen interest in strengthening the bilateral relationship for mutual benefits in the fields of tourism, commerce, commodities and others.

The meeting was also attended by Gujarat's tourism and civil aviation minister Saurabhbhai Patel. In the meeting, Sheikh briefed Patel that the Emirates Airline is having flight-connectivity with over 145 destinations of the world over. Thus, his airline would like to ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Gujarat tourism to attract and bring more tourists to Gujarat from the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa and other places of the world over.

The chief minister also extended a formal invitation to Sheikh to participate in the forthcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors' Summit-2015, to be held in Gandhinagar in January-2015. She also urged him to extend all possible help in flight bookings and others to the tourists arriving here from world over to attend the mega Vibrant Summit-2015.
11/09/14 Piyush Mishra/Times of India
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