ITDC - INDIA TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

ITDC is the second most important organization after India Tourism. It works as a public sector organization. The Corporation is running hotels, restaurants at various places for tourists, besides providing transport facilities.

1. INDIA TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (ITDC) Presented by: Abdul Razak

2. introduction ITDC is an hospitality, retail and Education company owned by  Government of India, under Ministry of Tourism. Established in 1966, it owns over 17 properties under the  Ashok Group  of Hotels brand, across India. ITDC is the second most important organization after India Tourism. It works as a public sector organization. The main purpose of ITDC is to promote India as a tourist destination. The Corporation is running hotels, restaurants at various places for tourists, besides providing transport facilities.

3. Cont…   the Corporation is engaged in production, distribution and sale of tourist publicity literature and providing entertainment and duty free shopping facilities to the tourists . Presently, ITDC has a network of eight Ashok Group of Hotels, five Joint Venture Hotels, 1 Restaurant, 11 Transport Units,  9 Duty Free Shop at airport and seaports and two Sound & Light Shows.

4. OBJECTIVES To construct, take over and manage existing hotels and market hotels, Beach Resorts, Travellers Lodges/Restaurants. To provide transport, entertainment, shopping and conventional services; To produce, distribute, tourist publicity material;  To render consultancy-cum-managerial services in India and abroad; To carry on the business as Full-Fledged Money Changers (FFMC), restricted money changers etc; To provide innovating, dependable and value for money solutions to the needs of tourism development and engineering industry including providing consultancy and project implementation.

5. List of ITDC Hotel The Ashok Samrat Janpathi Lalitha Mahal Palace Bharatpur Ashok Jaipur Ashok Kalinga Ashok Jammu Ashok Patliputra Ashok Lake View Ashok

6. Cont… Brahamputra Ashok Donyi Polo Ashok Pondicherry Ashok Nilanchal Ashok Ranchi Ashok

7. Hotel Janpath

8. Lalitha Mahal Palace Hotel, Mysore

9. Hotel Samrat, New Delhi

10. Products/Divisions of ITDC Ashok Group  Hotels, Duty Free Travel Solutions Advertising Solutions Engineering Consultancy Education and Training Event Management Art Gallery

11. Functions of ITDC As the mainstay of the Hospitality Industry in India, ITDC plays a pivotal role in the creation and advancement of tourist infrastructure in India. ITDC is a large Corporation under the Tourism Department of Government of India and carries a large number of employees in its different sections at various levels of caliber and status. ITDC aims at achieving high levels of productivity from its personnel through superior education, stimulus, and Human Resource Development practices. ITDC plays a vital role in getting together Government of each different State and its corresponding Tourism Development Corporation in planning and implementing new tourism-related projects, promotion of these projects, and training of required personnel.

12. Cont… Construction of new hotels and other hospitality related units, management of the existing ones and take-over of those hotels, motels, resorts, lodges and restaurants that are not doing well but have potential is one of the primary functions of the Corporation. All other activities that are related to tourist facilities and interests such as transportation, entertainment, shopping, facilities for conventions and meetings etc. come in the purview of the functions of the Corporation . ITDC also takes up consultancy and management of tourism related projects in the country and overseas.

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