Seek, Discover and Explore

The focus of the fourth Madhya Pradesh Travel Mart is to highlight Madhya Pradesh as a year round travel destination

  The 4th edition of Madhya Pradesh Travel Mart with the theme of Seek-Discover-Explore will be held at Bhopal from October 27 to 29 this year. Around 200 national and international buyers and about 100 representatives of distinct Indian markets are expected to participate in it. The main objective of this mart is to promote the Madhya Pradesh as a destination throughout the year. The mart will provide a B2B platform which will bring tourism stakeholders on a platform where they would interact to explore opportunities of mutual trade. The event is being supported by eminent institutions of tourism and hospitality industry including Adventure Tour Operators Association of India, Indian Association of Tour Operators, Travel Agent Association of India and Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Association of India.

“The Travel Mart is an opportunity in which the tourism aspects of the state and the policies and schemes are conveyed to the investors. In the last 3 years of the Travel Mart in Bhopal, it has been experienced that through this one-to-one discussion with tourists, tourism, hospitality and participants of the hotel industry, the efforts being made for the expansion of the area are also being underlined,” said Hari Ranjan Rao, Secretary, Tourism and Public Service Management, Managing Director, M.P. State Tourism Development Corporation, Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board.

The last edition was highly successful with around 8 crore visitors out of which around 6 lakhs were foreign tourist. This year the number is expected to around 9 crore with many international participants like Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America, Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Thailand, Poland, Austria, Australia and France.