This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 17 November 2015.
The union territory of Diu will be hosting the first ever 75-day international festival `Festa Di Diu' (in Portugese) - this would go on till February 2016. Kutch is expected to play host to over two lakh tourists during the three-month long `Rann Utsav` beginning by the end of this month.
Obviously, expectations are high because this would be a sort of first with two large scale tourism festivals being held in the same region simultaneously.
Consequently, tour operators and travel agents are upbeat and believe that instead of eating into each others share, they have re-worked their tour packages to cover both the destinations - Diu and Kutch. Incidentally, even though Diu is a union territory, it gets a major share of tourists from Gujarat.
Air India has already begun a new flight on Ahmedabad-Mumbai route four times a week to cater to the increasing number of tourists who would arrive for the Diu festival.
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