CITCO, IRCTC join hands to expand tourism in Chandigarh

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 23

The Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation (CITCO) and the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) have joined hands by signing an MoU to customise travel packages and to work together on developing and expanding tourism in and around Chandigarh.

CITCO will emphasise on chalking out plans for tourism spots while the IRCTC will bring international and domestic tourists by introducing travel packages.

Both parties will jointly explore areas of cooperation and draw up detailed plans for the same. The areas of cooperation would include development of joint rail tourism products, with the transport segment to be provided by the IRCTC and land package support, including accommodation, meals and transport, etc, by CITCO.

Jasvinder Kaur Sidhu, Managing Director, CITCO, said: “Using the strength and infrastructure of both parties for the broader objective of promoting tourism destinations is one of the key reasons behind this tie-up. Besides, we will be sharing the web portal where services of both parties could be accessible and promoted.”

Rajni Hasija, Chairman and Managing Director, IRCTC, said: “We will also be marketing each other’s products /services to our own customers, thus improvising the range of services provided to tourists and travellers.”

She added doing events and conferences jointly are also on their agenda. “We will be using the joint strength of the Railways and CITCO in promoting and marketing our products to travellers,” she said.

CITCO will make comprehensive packages for IRCTC passengers. All three CITCO hotels will be listed on the IRCTC portals (tourism, railway and air portals) for the promotion of packages. These tours would be highlighted on the website and online portal of the IRCTC.

Additional features in packages to allure travellers are sight-seeing on “hop on hop off” double decker tourist bus and a cruise ride at Sukhna Lake.