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Tweet So today was the last day of Sir Bonington’s visit to our campus and the agenda was the most special for me. He was giving away professional development certificates to faculty members and I was one of the recipients. So here I am grinning from ear to ear with Sir Chris Bonington while receiving my certificate. And [...]
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Tweet I became tourism researcher by accident. I am quite fond of traveling and I over the years became a heavy user of message boards to plan my travel. While reading something about Agra on Indiamike, I was one day thinking you will never see this in a tourism brochure or on a travel agents website. And then it occurred to [...]
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Tweet The long list of National Tourism Organization links that you saw was actually to determine how many of them use social media. The answer is quite a few. I could find out information about 80 countries that used at least one social media (Web 2.0, Travel 2.0 or whatever you like to call it) [...]
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Tweet If you ever wondered about the official tourism website (also know as National Tourism Organization or NTO of a country) here is a list of 196 195 countries for you. This is a work in progress and an individual effort. Also, I know the list would become obsolete quite soon because so many URLS will [...]
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Tweet The picture and the matter of this post are somewhat unrelated. The only relation between the picture and the post is bright and sunny, that is how the flowers look to me. That is how my outlook is these days, now that I have finally completed my grading for the semester. How I feel [...]
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Tweet Innocent Drink, Smoothies, UK When we reached Heathrow (May, 2009) we were dazed as usual. We also had a bus to catch in a hurry so that we could arrive at Oxford, say before 10.00 at night. Since our accommodation was a little out of the city in Oxford, it was advisable that we [...]
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I started 'Travel Tales from India' my India Travel Blog in 2005 and it has become an anchor for my travel writing. My blog was once linked at BBC and The Guardian. All my stories published at Gonomad can be viewed from my writer profile page. In December 2010 I featured in a National Geographic Skoda Yeti Video. My blog was voted the best Travel Indiblogin 2006. You can write to me at mridulablog at gmail dot com For advertising queries please check out my advertising page.