Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will inaugurate the fourth edition of Odisha Travel Bazar (OTB) 2022 here on October 28.
The flagship exhibition, being jointly hosted by Odisha government’s Tourism department and Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), will help in forging networks and collaborations in tourism across India and globally.
The three-day event, to be held at Swosti Premium, Bhubaneswar, will bring together about 25 foreign tour operators from countries like Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Tanzania, Thailand and Vietnam will participate in the three-day event, besides 82 from India from cities including Aurangabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nasik, New Delhi and NCR, Panjim, Pune, Raipur, Rohtak, Siliguri, Surendra Nagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam.
The organizers elaborated at a press meet on Wednesday that the primary objective of OTB 2022 is to create a platform for aggressive promotion of tourist destinations in Odisha to domestic buyers from India as well as in the international market.
Aswini Kumar Patra, Minister for Tourism, Odia Language, Literature & Culture and Excise, highlighted the efforts being undertaken by Odisha Tourism to boost tourist footfalls, and the need for proactive partnership of stakeholders of travel and tourism industry to popularize unexplored destinations in the state.
The event will focus on B2B meetings between the tourism fraternity of Odisha (sellers) with domestic tour operators (DTOs) and foreign tour operators (FTOs), followed by familiarization trips to various tourism destinations of Odisha.
B2G Meetings with investors and airline operators have also been planned during the event.
Sellers will get a chance to exhibit their products over the three-day exhibition.
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