Bhubaneswar: Union Civil Aviation Minister P Ashok Gajapati Raju on Monday assured the Tourism Department of looking into the extension of the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar-Port Blair Air India (AI) flight to Phuket.
The assurance came after Minister of State for Tourism Ashok Panda and Secretary Arvind Padhee met the Union Civil Aviation Minister here and submitted a list of demands regarding aviation needs of the tourism sector.
Majority of the Buddhist tourists coming to India belong to Thailand, China and Japan. With Phuket being 20 minutes of flying time from Port Blair, the Tourism Department has been seeking extension of the AI flight to Phuket to draw more Buddhist tourists to the Diamond Triangle (Lalitgiri, Udaygiri and Ratnagiri) of Odisha.
14/10/14 New Indian Express
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The assurance came after Minister of State for Tourism Ashok Panda and Secretary Arvind Padhee met the Union Civil Aviation Minister here and submitted a list of demands regarding aviation needs of the tourism sector.
Majority of the Buddhist tourists coming to India belong to Thailand, China and Japan. With Phuket being 20 minutes of flying time from Port Blair, the Tourism Department has been seeking extension of the AI flight to Phuket to draw more Buddhist tourists to the Diamond Triangle (Lalitgiri, Udaygiri and Ratnagiri) of Odisha.
14/10/14 New Indian Express
