A top hill destination of Kerala, Munnar has indeed grown in stature owing to the demands of its visitors. Of late, a new trend has picked up, in which visitors to Munnar prefer to stay in nearby towns and access Munnar for its delights. The developments in satellite towns like Adimali, Anachal, Chittirapuram and Kallar have promoted tourist arrivals to Munnar.

Coonoor, Coimbatore and Ooty the three popular destinations in India will soon be 3G enabled thanks to BSNL.

The 3G service from BSNL will provide quality services to the customers in Coimbatore, Ooty and Coonoor. With the 3G network customers can access data and speech simultaneously, a must for video calls.

Thailand-based Mandara Spa Asia Limited (MSAL) has forayed into the Indian market by launching its spa brand Chavana Spa through Four Points by Sheraton, Navi Mumbai. In October 2009, MSAL had launched the spa brand to cater to the mid-market and four-star hotel segment. The facility in Navi Mumbai marks the first establishment of an international spa brand in Asia. MSAL has entered into a franchise-management under a revenue sharing model agreement for the spa facility in the hotel. The hotel’s spa facility will offer Balinese therapies with traditional Balinese massages along with Indian head massages, Asian foot massages, purity facials and head and foot massages. The hotel has four treatment rooms and treatment costs range from Rs 1,400 to Rs 6,500.

A new contactless smart card that is being developed by the Urban Development Ministry could soon offer public transport users integrated travel across the whole of India. 

Passengers on trains, buses and metro services in the country will be able to use just one transit card to pay for their journeys on various modes of transport all over the nation, the Hindustan Times reports.