The government is giving coastal cruise services a push by offering IGST waiver to luxury vessels converting to coastal run and encouraging...

"India will do extremely well in the cruise sector. I am confident that in the next 5-7 years India will be one of the top five cruise dest...

"Cruise services can be operated only when the weather is fair. So, it would be between October and May," MbPT chairman Sanjay Bhatia said ...

The flurry of India-specific trips, designed to introduce more Indians to cruises, are economical and shorter in duration.

India, with a 7,500 km of coastline, has taken some key steps to promote cruise that includes relaxation of policies and roping in global c...

The airport at Dabolim has already made adequate arrangements for catering to citizens from 75 countries, availing of ETV facility.

The 135-metre-long 20-metre-wide ship can accommodate about 400 people and is equipped with wireless Internet access.

DGS has said that all Indian seafarers working on Indian or foreign merchant navy ships and cruise liners will now get Continuous Discharge...

Lack of development and poor facilities at ports have so far kept passengers and operators away from the sector

A night at sea on a luxury cruise liner or a trip across the Arabian Sea to Dubai could soon become a reality with the Chennai-based AMET C...

The luxury liner has had numerous trips on sea, catering to the fancies of the rich. A sprawling swimming pool, a Las-Vegas style casino, a...

The government is all set to pave the way for the entry of overseas cruise shipping biggies such as Royal Caribbean and Royal Olympic and o...

The new structure was made largely with the intention of casting the tax net wider to include operations in the expanded geography. A sport...

The government plans to exempt cruise operators from various taxes including excise, customs and corporate tax which account for 36% of the...

Cruise tourism is finally set to take off in the country. The Cabinet will soon take up the cruise policy which proposes service tax waiver...

India, which has a 7,500 km long coastline and nearly 200 ports, will soon come out with a National Cruise Shipping Policy to promote touri...

The Goa-based major port Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) has issued an “expression of interest” for the construction on a build-operate-transfer ...