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National, May 2024- Fourteen members of the Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI), Karnataka Chapter recently flew from Bengaluru to Sindhudurg's Chipi airport with India's youngest airline, FLY91, to explore the tourism and trade opportunities in south Maharashtra's emerging travel destination.

The three-day FAM trip to Sindhudurg was facilitated by FLY91. During the trip the agents toured  various beaches surrounding Sindhudurg , like Chivala, Tarkarli and Devbag and explored water sports and cultural offerings in Maharashtra's southernmost district.

The TAFI-Karnataka delegation comprised of Shanthi Sony, managing partner of Sonys Travel Lines and secretary of TAFI-Karnataka, Sitesh Parekh, managing partner of Active Skylink Travels and treasurer of TAFI-Karnataka, Shekar G. Kandur, founder and managing partner at Flight Shop Holidays, among several others.

"The delegation of travel agents registered with TAFI's Karnataka chapter who were flown onboard FLY91 from Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport to Chipi airport in Sindhudurg, was also given a tour of a popular cashew processing factory and introduced to local businessmen linked to the travel and tourism industries to explore exciting tourism offerings and experiential opportunities in Sindhudurg," according to Ashutosh Chitnis, Chief Revenue Officer, FLY91.

Competing with the tourism prowess of Goa, the neighbouring Maharashtra district is aspiring to be a popular beach tourism destination as well as a hub for the production of the popular Alphonso mangoes and a traditional food processing industry.

With FLY91, India's pure play airline, enhancing air connectivity to and from Sindhudurg's Chipi airport to destinations like Bengaluru, Hyderabad, etc, the travel sector is keen to explore Maharashtra's tourism-oriented district for touristic and trade related opportunities.

 About FLY91:

FLY91 (Just Udo Aviation Private Limited) is a pure play regional airline headquartered in Goa, that strives to enhance air connectivity across tier 2 and tier 3 cities in India. Founded by industry veterans and backed by professional funding, FLY91 is committed to enhance last mile air connectivity and will connect over 50 cities across India in the next five years. As part of this plan, FLY91 will induct 30 aircraft into its fleet which will be based at multiple hubs across the country. This vision is reflected in its selection of ATR 72-600 aircraft, which is a robust & established choice for safe, efficient and sustainable operations for regional airlines globally. For more information, please refer to www.fly91.in .

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