The UAE is set to be the largest destination exhibitor at the Outbound Travel Market 2016 (OTM 2016), India's biggest travel trade show, being held later this month.

To be held in Mumbai, India’s largest source market of travel, OTM 2016 will run from February 18 to 20 the Bombay Convention and Exhibition Centre.

UAE tourism companies will take part at the show under the umbrella of National Council of Tourism and Antiquities (NCTA). It will have a 300-sq-m pavilion with all the emirates and the three national carriers participating.

The NCTA delegation will be led by the director general of NCTA and include about 70 participants.
 
Tourism within and out of India provides huge opportunities for the thousands of trade professionals from around the world attending OTM 2016 to buy, sell and be updated.
 
As per data released by India's Tourism Ministry, it is estimated that in 2015, over 20 million Indians travelled abroad, close to 10 million foreigners came to India and over a billion trips were taken by Indians within the country. The governments at the federal and state levels have prioritised tourism as a key area for the economy.
 
With generous support from Wonderful Indonesia, over 500 trade professionals from Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Chennai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Jaipur and Pune have been pre-qualified for participation in India’s largest hosted buyer programme, to visit the OTM 2016. Additionally, over 3,000 trade visitors have registered their participation online, underscoring the real business value of OTM. The number of such committed buyers is increasing daily in the lead-up to OTM.
 
Several global destinations will be participating at OTM 2016 with the keenness to carve a piece of India’s projected 50 million outbound pie including Oman, Indonesia, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Thailand, New Zealand, and China, among many others.
 
Major Indian destinations are perfectly complementing their international counterparts with Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Jammu & Kashmir, Gujarat, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha and many other states, present with large number of sellers from each, to showcase India at its best. – TradeArabia News Service