Press Trust Of India / Chennai/ Bangalore Sep 17, 2009, 00:25 IST
Karnataka government has decided to provide airlink as an added attraction to lure tourists to this year’s Dasara festival at Mysore. The state’s tourism department has decided to charter a 65-seater ATR short haul aircraft to fly passengers from Bangalore to Mysore from September 22 for five days, Minister for Tourism G Janardhana Reddy told reporters here.
On September 19, the first flight would leave from here to Mysore carrying chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and Art of Living Foundation founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for inaugurating the Dasara festivities. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has been invited to inaugurate the event.
Those travelling by air will also be taken to tourist destinations around Mysore such as Somanathapura, Srirangapatna and Brindavan gardens. To promote tourism, government planned to conduct package tours to Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Goa on week-ends,using the chartered flight, Reddy said.
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