Solution to "Andaman Hijacked by Thailand !!"

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Permalink Reply by Shibu Varghese on November 17, 2009 at 14:37

Sir,
They should accept your offer and take your advise/ will they, most of them are loaded with ego and think what they are doing is right.

i really appreciate your effort to put forward your experiences in this regard. if you had asked this to a private person. he would have bumped and would have requested you. but i think this people would not appreciate would concern about anadamans. they are here to kill their time.
The govt of India office in port blair, you can contact them they are the ones atleast at least making some effort in this regard.
incredible india.

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Permalink Reply by Sudhir Sreenivasan on September 9, 2010 at 21:05

Thanks Shibu. Any more suggestions ?

Latest, check this Thailand website called http://www.andamania.com

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Permalink Reply by P.G.Abhilash on September 10, 2010 at 9:36

I would request you to kindly contact, Director, Dept. of Information, Publicity & Tourism, Andaman & Nicobar Administration, Port Blair - 744101, email ID: - diript@and.nic.in , 230933 (o), 227039 (r), 230933 (f). Personaly speaking I can't be of any help nor will any kind of discussions here is gonna help. He is the authority to in this matter.

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Permalink Reply by Shibu Varghese on September 10, 2010 at 14:49

Though the new link in the site www.andaman.nic.in does not connect for registeration you can still give a try./ or else make a site fix a charge take TAC from the booking and that i think every hotlier ,travel agent will agree.

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Permalink Reply by Sudhir Sreenivasan on September 11, 2010 at 14:37

The following are Thailand based websites:

www.theandaman.com
www.andaman.com
www.clubandaman.com
www.andamandiscoveries.com
www.andamanthairestaurant.com
www.andamandivers.com
www.andamanscuba.com
www.andamanonline.com
www.andamanwhitebeach.com
www.andamanseakayak.com
www.andamanrising.org
www.andamanadventures.com
www.andamanbeachresort.com
www.andamanhotel.net

There are hundreds of Websites like the above websites. They are using the brand name Andaman to promote their businesses.

If you type Andaman in Google the above websites come as Top Search Results.

Is the Andaman tourist department listening ?

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Permalink Reply by Shibu Varghese on September 11, 2010 at 16:08

Dear Mr Sudhir,

As i have already mentioned we can do nothing in this regards its because we share the sea called andaman sea. there are plenty of things written in the name of andaman.
so do something (like a portal on andaman giving all information about shops take add from the company etc.

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Permalink Reply by Sudhir Sreenivasan on September 11, 2010 at 20:16

Dear Shibu,

I agree with you that you or me cannot do anything in regard. However, the Andamans tourism department can certainly do something about it.

The Andamans tourism department should come out with a Web Marketing policy in tune with the stakeholders of tourism like Travel agents, Hoteliers etc., The Andamans tourism department should formulate online marketing strategies to leverage the power of Online Media - example Search Engine Marketing - to promote tourism in Andamans.

The Kerala Tourism department has a marketing budget of Rs. 25 Crores per year - Out of which at least Rs. 5 Crores per year is for Web or Online Marketing activities.

Kerala is one of the first State Tourism Departments to embark on digital marketing initiatives. Kerala Tourism has always been quick to respond to market requirements and the latest initiative caters to the new tech-savvy traveler, who uses the Internet to plan and book his travel arrangements.

These initiatives will make Kerala more accessible to travelers and enhance the resourcefulness of www.keralatourism.org. What is more important are the opportunities it will create for small-time entrepreneurs in the State to reach out and access new markets.

Kerala Tourism has tied up with YouTube, the highly popular video sharing site and set up a branded channel www.youtube.com/keralatourismdotorg to promote its promotional video content worldwide. The channel not just promotes video content produced by Kerala Tourism, but also encourages users to produce and uplink their own videos on Kerala, thereby creating an enormous video content on Kerala online. It will help in Kerala videos being thrown up in search and in creating interest. The channel has received a stunning 1.2 million hits in the first 12 months of trial run.

I am happy to know that the Andamans Tourism department is coming soon with an enchanced Website keeping the stake holders in mind. This is a good beginning. But this is not enough.

Best,

Sudhir


Shibu Varghese said:

Dear Mr Sudhir, As i have already mentioned we can do nothing in this regards its because we share the sea called andaman sea. there are plenty of things written in the name of andaman. so do something (like a portal on andaman giving all information about shops take add from the company etc.

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Permalink Reply by Shibu Varghese on September 15, 2010 at 7:11

Dear Sudhir,
Finally i spoke about you when i happened to be at the tourism office. The DRC Mr Vinod was very interested and was glad to hear that you seems to be interested to improve the site. through him you can get lots of help. he shall be a link to the decision makers. lets hope for the best.his mail id is vkvkdotpb@gmail.com pl you can contact him by sending a mail.
This may look like a silver lining in the dark cloud.

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Permalink Reply by Sudhir Sreenivasan on September 15, 2010 at 9:03

Dear Shibu,

Thanks. I will write to Mr. Vinod.

I guess DRC is Deputy Resident Commissioner.

Best,

Sudhir

Shibu Varghese said:

Dear Sudhir,
Finally i spoke about you when i happened to be at the tourism office. The DRC Mr Vinod was very interested and was glad to hear that you seems to be interested to improve the site. through him you can get lots of help. he shall be a link to the decision makers. lets hope for the best.his mail id is vkvkdotpb@gmail.com pl you can contact him by sending a mail.
This may look like a silver lining in the dark cloud.

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Permalink Reply by Shibu Varghese on September 15, 2010 at 16:24

S Drc is dy. resident comm. you can pl contact him and the tourism dept is also planning to change is what they say.

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Permalink Reply by Sudhir Sreenivasan on December 11, 2011 at 12:04

We should promote Andaman's tourism related  websites on the World Wide Web.

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Permalink Reply by Umang Sonthalia on January 20, 2012 at 20:53

The only solution, if the tourism department is not listening is to create some really good content websites on Andamans Islands. I am working on one - go2andaman.com

Slowly and steadily I'm climbing up on the Google Rankings with the help of good content. All I'm trying to make sure is, I don't copy articles already online and create fresh ones.

I believe in few months down the line, my website would be ranking on the top 10 results for "andaman nicobar" keyword.

Later, I can start publishing articles/blog posts with keywords, Thailand guys are targeting. This sounds really easy to say, but takes in a lot of effort.

It has to be more of a combined effort of everyone. Simple thing like - travel agents when making a website can use quality content and just not list packages they want to sell. They should also think of investing in organic search optimization and not simply generate traffic using Google Adwords.

Sitting and cribbing about administration not being active will not help, we should rather collectively build up the online identity of our islands. Things like sharing backlinks with good websites we own can be done. Posting small articles on blogs on Andamans. Posting pictures. Posting videos. All this will surely help if each of us can contribute a little.

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