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Andhra Pradesh Minister for Tourism, Culture, and Cinematography Kandula Durgesh connected Wednesday announced that the State government, successful collaboration with the Association of Domestic Tour Operators of India (ADTOI), would organise a two-day National Tourism Mart-2025 successful Visakhapatnam connected February 13 and 14, 2026.
To facilitate accelerated maturation of home tourism, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed successful the beingness of elder officials from the Tourism Department and representatives of ADTOI.
The Minister said the projected lawsuit would service arsenic a level to showcase the State’s coastal tourism, spiritual circuits, practice monuments, eco-adventure tourism, and bureau (tribal) country tourism astatine a nationalist level.
Prominent circuit operators, edifice owners, destination promoters, tourism stakeholders, and question experts from crossed the state would enactment successful the mart.
Mr. Durgesh said the B2B networking sessions, destination presentations, concern meetings, sheet discussions, and familiarisation trips to tourer spots would alteration the section tourism stakeholders to found nonstop concern linkages with nationalist level players, and expressed anticipation that the inaugural would assistance summation tourer footfall, amended section employment opportunities, foster semipermanent concern relations and unafraid national-level designation for the State.
Representatives of ADTOI said their ngo was to fortify home tourism, beforehand and bring lesser-known tourer destinations successful the State to light, and guarantee sustainable tourism maturation and employment for section communities.
Expressing happiness for partnering with the Andhra Pradesh government, they said it was committed to moving with nationalist associations to execute liable and broad tourism growth.
The programme was attended by Special Secretary of Tourism Ajay Jain, Managing Director of AP Tourism Development Corporation and CEO of AP Tourism Authority Amrapali Kata, Deputy CEO of APTA Srinivas, AP State Creativity and Culture Commission Chairperson Tejaswi Podapati, Communication Officer S. Padma Rani, ADTOI president Ved Khanna, vice-president Ashish, Travel Mart CEO Vijay Mohan and others.
