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Indian State West Bengal government's Rural Development Department plans to create forests across the state by using the Miyawaki method, a Japanese method of tree planting that helps in building dense, native forests.

The Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) said that the strong Thai baht is proving to be the biggest obstacle in trying to lure tourists to the country.

Indian State Kerala’s Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran launched the “clean Kerala initiative,” piloted by responsible tourism mission with the co-operation of the stakeholders in the tourism sector in Thiruvananthapuram.

For more than a month now the Kashmir Valley, which primarily survives on the tourism sector for survival, has been under lockdown with selected restrictions on the public movement in many areas.

The Inauguration of the maiden ‘Eco-Tourism-Cum-Angling Festival’, a colourful event at the confluence of Sii and Sibu River at Darak in West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh, was witnessed by people this week.

The Badung Regency Tourism Office recently announced that more than 10 % increase has been registered in the number of tourists arriving at Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport in 2018, which is far exceeding the target for the year.

Lonely Planet, the internationally acclaimed travel guide book publisher has named Bhutan as the best country to visit in 2020.

In an attempt to raise its tourism appeal worldwide, Myanmar has added more countries to its visa-on-arrival list to make it easier for tourists to visit the country.

According to Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO), the estimated number of international travellers to Japan in August 2019 registered 2.5 million with a decline of 2.2% compared to the previous year.

Several high-profile tourism and ecotourism projects have transformed some of Vietnam’s ecotourism destinations into highly desirable tourism destinations, with overseas tourists flocking to the country in large numbers to visit those places.