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...great diversity, offering beaches and ski slopes, teeming with man-made and natural wonders. Last year foreign tourists spent over $10 billion in the country. But since last month's attacks, in which foreigners were among the more than 180 people killed, about a dozen countries have issued negative travel advisories on India. Bookings by foreign travelers, particularly from Europe and the U.S., are down by 40% to 60%, according to the Federation of Hotels and Restaurants Association of India. "The entire tourist season of 2008-09 is totally ruined," says FHRAI secretary-general Harish Sud, "We're expecting...
...positive forecasts until just months back. In the last few years, while the economy was projected to grow at 8% to 9%, top names in hospitality like Four Seasons and Aman were making forays into India to fill the huge supply gap in the top-end executive and leisure travel segments. Five-star room rates in key cities had grown by 40% year-on-year in 2007, and a report by Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, the hotel investment and advisory service provider, had predicted India would need to add 150,000 new rooms in the next four years to keep...
Ease Your Getaway. If you're flying out of Atlanta for the holidays, kick off your travel with a touch of luxury. Book a room with the "Park Here, Fly There" package (promotional code PKF) at the Renaissance Concourse Hotel Atlanta Airport, and you can leave your car in the hotel parking lot for up to 10 days. The hotel will shuttle you free to and from the airport. Rooms start at $105 on weekends, and $165 on weekdays. One Hartsfield Centre Parkway, Atlanta...
...safer than ever, according to the Department of Transportation. The number of people killed in traffic accidents fell 10% in 2008, hitting a record low of 31,110, early estimates suggest. That could be due in part to the fact that there was also a record drop in road travel: Americans drove 100 billion fewer miles between November 2007 and October 2008, compared with the same period a year earlier - the largest continuous decline in U.S. history...
Read TIME's Travel Avenger column...