Orissa Travel Mart, to be held in August-September 2010
Orissa Tourism is planning to organize Orissa Travel Mart (OTM) this year. The proposed travel mart, according to
Debi Prasad Mishra, Minister of Higher Education and Tourism, Government of Orissa, will be organised some time in August/September, this year.
Importance of Eram in Basudevpur, in the tourism map of India
Eram also known as the `second Jalianawala Bagh’ where the British forces killed 28 persons on September 28, 1942 was also very important as the only woman martyr of the freedom movement in Orissa, Pari Bewa, also fell to the British bullets there.
Special Package for the Christian Tourists in Orissa
In a bid to negate the adverse campaign against Orissa in the post-Kandhamal riot, the state government has offered a special package for the Christian tourists under spiritual or religious tourism.
Chandragiri – Inaguration of Monastry
Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama is expected to naugurate a monastery at Chandragiri in Gajapati district of the state where a large number of Tibetans 
have been staying.