Ladakh Tourism pavilion adjudged winner of ‘Best Design & Decoration

Ladakh Tourism pavilion adjudged winner of ‘Best Design & Decoration

Award’ at OTM, 2024; draws huge response from tourist trade fraternity

Commissioner/Secretary, Tourism and Labour department reviews progress at Delhi regarding Sound & Light show projects of Leh Palace & Suru River Front, Biamathang, Kargil, attends the 58th Conference of Chief Inspectors of Factories at Bhubaneswar, Orissa

Mumbai/Leh, February 12, 2024: The Ladakh Tourism Pavilion was adjudged winner of Best Design & Decoration Award at OTM, 2024.

The Deputy Chief Minister & Tourism Minister, Rajasthan, Smt. Diya Kumari gave

away the award at the award ceremony held on day 3 of the travel trade fair at the Jio Convention Center, Mumbai.

The Minister also visited the Ladakh Tourism Pavilion and interacted with the tourism officials and co-exhibitors.

The Ladakh Pavilion attracted overwhelming response from national and international travel trade fraternity and visitors on all the three days of OTM, 2024.

As part of its tourism promotion measures, Ladakh Tourism with its official delegation along with over 30 co-exhibitors attended the travel extravaganza

drawing thousands of tourists, holidaymakers, travel trade buyers and tour organizing professionals to the Ladakh pavilion.

Hundreds of travel trade fraternity members from different states and

UTs and foreign countries visited the Ladakh Pavilion and interacted

with the members of the official delegation and co-exhibitors from the

UT. The interactions involved presentations, short films on known and off-beat destinations of Ladakh and discussions on sustainable inbound & outbound travel.

On 9th February, the Commissioner/Secretary, Tourism Department, Kacho Mehboob Ali Khan participated as a special guest in a session on the theme “Bringing Global Destinations to Indian Cinema”. This interaction brought together production houses of Indian Cinema and tourism officials from India and abroad and discussed about the need to work together to make the processes of permissions for shooting seamless and less time consuming so that film tourism becomes a reality in India and abroad.

The Tourism Department, UT Ladakh is making meaningful efforts to give the

tourism stakeholders from Ladakh required exposure within the

country and abroad to promote Ladakh as a round the year tourist destination. OTM being one of the best travel marts provides appropriate the forum at the national and international level for promoting Ladakh as a 12-month tourist destination. Such platforms also provide

opportunity to conduct B2B, B2C, B2G and G2G interactions, which help

in establishing fruitful business relationships and at the same time

spread information about hitherto unknown tourist destinations within

the UT of Ladakh.

The Commissioner/Secretary (Tourism), post his visit to Mumbai held a review meeting at Delhi with GM, ITDC regarding finalisation of the Audio-Video presentation of the light & sound show projects being inaugurated at Leh Palace, Leh and Suru River Front, Biamathang, Kargil. The Commissioner/Secretary stressed on ITDC to stick to timelines and complete the project before the onset of tourist season in Ladakh. GM, ITDC has assured that the project will be completed as per the desired timelines.

The Commissioner/Secretary is also attending the 58th Conference of Chief Inspectors of Factories at Bhubaneswar being organised by the Ministry of Labour and Labour Department, Government of Orissa. On the first day of the conference on 12th February meaningful discussions on the agenda items were held and actions required at State/UT level and at the Ministry level in respect of framing of Rules following the framing of Labour Codes have been discussed. These Codes are likely to be implemented in the near future.