IDS Technologies Launches Online Gift Portal – ApunkaGift.Com - with Exclusive Holi Combo Offers

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Source: Info Data Soft Technologies

Editors: General: Consumer interest, Gift, Gift E-Commerce, Lifestyle, People; Business: Business services, Holi, Holi Combo Offers, Online Holi Combo Shopping, Books, Flower Bouquet, Cakes, Chocolates, Paintings, Soft Toys

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IDS Technologies Launches Online Gift Portal – ApunkaGift.Com -  with Exclusive Holi Combo Offers

Vadodara, Gujarat, India, Wednesday, March 20, 2013 (Socilion.Com) – Technology start up IDS Technologies (www.idstonline.com) has launched its own online gift portal – ApunkaGift.Com.

Apunka Gift meaning “my own personal gift” in English, has housed many sections including exclusive Holi Combo Offers. There are more than two dozen of Holi combos available on apunkagift.com. All Holi combos are specially designed and exclusive in nature keeping in mind the basic need during Holi starting from a small to big sized family. Combos also include Holi gifts for a kids, youth and special Holi gifts from a boy to his sweet heart and a bother-in-law to his sister-in-law and vice-a-versa.

Launching ApunkaGift.Com here on today, Abhijit Mukhopadhyay, Chief Executive of IDS Technologies, said that in India Holi is celebrated as a festival of colours and is the most awaited festivals of India due to its own relevance and livelihood. This year Holi will be celebrated on March 26-27 and with the time of Holi fast approaching, everyone is tired of thinking gifts during Holi.

To offer customized Holi gifts for each and every sections of the society, ApunkaGift.Com, has entered into the E-Commerce market space when biggies are more concentrating on lucrative markets like New Year and Valentines Days, said Mr. Mukhopadhyay adding all our Holi combos are researched based, according to the need of a family and organized after a through market study.

Depending upon the price, Holi combos from ApunkaGift.Com contain organic colours like Multi Color Gulal, Scented Colors,  and Water Based Colors, Traditional Pichkari and Spray Guns, Balloon Pack, Sunglasses, Haldiram Soan Papdi, Chatapata Farsan, Tang - water based drink concentrate, Teddy Bear, Various types of Chocolates, Patanjali branded Aloe Vera Gel and Free Holi T-Shirt.

He said, there are many portal offering Holi gifts, but none have so vast and huge collection as showcased by ApunkaGift.Com. “We have always pitched for organic and non-harmful colours and we have sticked to that policy sothat people specially kids and children should not develop any adverse side effect after using our products,” he informed.

The aim of ApunkaGift.Com is to provide the online shopper with all the possible options to make the best purchase decisions during Holi. Sometimes it means comparing product and prices, sometimes it means having the need of the family to choose from and an emotional way for the user to discover the specially designed combos.

Apart from exclusive range of Holi Combos, ApunkaGift.Com is also having exclusive range of Books, Flower Bouquet, Cakes, Chocolates, Paintings and Soft Toys. Except books which are always either latest releases or best sellers, all other items including flower bouquet, cakes, chocolates, paintings and soft toys are handmade yet eye-catching and trendy design along with superior quality.

ApunkaGift.Com plans to continue to add more and more popular online shopping sections in the months to come, while increasing the depth of products and innovations in the current sections. The aim is not to be a simple online gift site but to develop innovative product range suitable for Indian families and friends and to add experience to help customers in their buying decision. ApunkaGift.Com is not only the gift portal but dedicated to deliver the emotion of sender to the recipient of gift, making it unique amongst many mushroomed gift portals from India.

About IDS Technologies

Info Data Soft Technologies is a specialized applications and solutions development organization focused on solutions for Corporate Communications and Public Relations. Effective and measured communications have always remained a concern for marketers and communicators. To bridge the gap, IDS Technologies has entered into the market space in 2010 and after initial launch of www.idstonline.com, it has also launched Public Relations and Corporate Communications service delivery brand – Socilion (www.socilion.com).

Contact Details
 IDS Technologies and ApunkaGift.Com, info@idstonline.com,
Cell: +91 87 33 87 33 83

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Gujarat Tourism bags three National Tourism Awards

Gujarat Tourism bags three National Tourism Awards

Gujarat Tourism has bagged three National Tourism Awards for best tourism film, innovative use of information and technology and one of the best State for comprehensive development of tourism in the country. Under the best tourism film category “Khushboo Gujarat Ki” campaign fetched the award for Gujarat Tourism while Gujarat grabbed the third prize for one of the best State under the Comprehensive Development of Tourism (Rest of India) category after Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Gujarat Tourism has launched “Khushboo Gujarat Ki” (fragrance of Gujarat) campaign in 2011 to promote various tourist destinations and to uphold rich culture and tradition of Gujarat. The campaign is being anchored by Megastar Amitabh Bachchan.

Announcing these Awards in New Delhi on March 12, Indian Tourism Minister Mr. Chiranjeevi said every year the categories of awards are reviewed with new categories being added to recognize excellence in diverse fields, in accordance with the requirements of changing times. He said recognising the importance of Cinema as a powerful tool for the development and promotion of the destinations, the Ministry has instituted a National Tourism Award for “Best Tourism Film” and Gujarat is the first State to bag the National Tourism Award under the best tourism film category.

Khushboo Gujarati Ki Campaign by Amitabh Bachchan

In 2010, Gujarat Tourism signed an agreement with noted Bollywood Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and engaged him to be the brand ambassador to promote various destinations of Gujarat. Since taking over as the brand ambassador of Gujarat, Amitabh Bachchan has promoted places like Kutch, Dwarka, Somnath and Gir National Forest in the first phase of campaign.

 

During the second phase, Amitabh Bachchan, has projected Saputara, a hilly station of Gujarat bordering Maharashtra, Porbandar, birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, Lothal,  one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley civilization and Sidhpur, a sacred town in Gujarat where last rituals of Mother is performed.

All these destinations are seeing double digit growth in tourist inflow including 30 per cent increase in foreign tourists. In 2006-07, the figure stood at 1.27 crore*, which increased to 1.70 crore in 2009-10. In 2009-10, total tourist inflow in Gujarat was 17011247 while in 2010-11 the total tourist inflow increased by more than 28 lacks taking the total to 1.98 crore. During 2011-12, the total inflow of tourists in Gujarat was 2.23 crore out of which 4.5 lakh** were foreign with a sharp increase of more than 14 per cent over the previous year.

 

Through the Kushboo Gujarat Ki campaign, Amitabh Bachchan has not only projected various tourist destinations, he has also featured Gujarat's rich tradition and various festivals like Kutch Festival.

 

Announcing these awards, Union Tourism Minister Mr. Chiranjeevi said it is an ongoing endeavour of the Ministry to diversify the tourism products of the country by developing and promoting new niche segments, so as to attract different categories of tourists with diverse interests and to promote India as a year - round destination. In keeping with this thrust of the Ministry, new categories of awards for “Medical Tourism Facilities” and for “Tour Operators Promoting Niche segments” had been introduced in 2011.

Hyderabad based Apollo Health City has bagged the Medical Tourism Facility Award while Mr. Yann Martel, author of the Book “Life of Pi”, has been awarded with a special National Tourism Award for promoting India (Puducherry and Munnar) through the film.

The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India annually presents National Tourism Awards to various segments of the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. These awards are being given since the early 1990s and are presented to State Governments / Union Territories, classified hotels, heritage hotels, approved travel agents, tour operators and tourist transport operators, individuals and other private organizations in recognition of their performance in their respective fields and also to encourage healthy competition with an aim to promote tourism.

The National Tourism Awards for the year 2011-12 will be given away at a function to be held at New Delhi on March 18 when the President of India will grace the occasion as Chief Guest and give away the awards in various categories.

*Crore is equal to ten million (10,000,000)
** Lakh is equal to one hundred thousand (100,000)

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