Announces packaged tours starting from ONLY Rs.499/- to Rs 3,250
for tourists
The start-struck
population of India will now have one more and quite a significant reason to
visit the glamour city of Mumbai. Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation
has come up with offering of packaged tours to Bollywood in association with Dadasaheb Phalke Chitra Nagri (Filmcity -
Goregaon). There are three packages with different pricing to suite to
the pockets which are Rs. 499, Rs 1,999 and Rs 3,250 respectively.
Dr Jagdish Patil, Managing
Director, MTDC, said, “Bollywood is one of the biggest film industries in the
world. People come from remote parts of India just to get a glimpse of their favorite
film stars camping outside their homes and even wait for several days. With our
new offering, we will take tourists not only around the residences of the stars
but also on film and TV show’s sets. They can see live shooting and if lucky,
spot the film stars on the sets.” Mr. Laxmikant Deshmukh, Managing Director of
Film City (Goregaon) was also
present during the announcement.
MTDC had floated EOI (Expression
of Interest) for Bollywood Tourism inviting travel agents or proprietary firms
to take up the operations and design packages for Economical low-end package,
medium-end package and high-end package. Bollywood Tourism is a joint venture
of Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation and Dadasaheb Phalke
Chitranagari (Filmcity-Goregaon).
MTDC has assigned two agencies to
operate Bollywood Tourism project on behalf of MTDC i.e. M/s MOS Utility Pvt.
Ltd for Economical package and
M/s Travelmartindia.com Pvt. Ltd for Medium and High-end packages.
Economical package will cost Rs 499 per person and tourists will
be taken for a three hour guided bus tour in English and Hindi to Film City (Goregaon), where they will be shown
various spots in Film City along with glimpses of shooting from the bus as well overview to Film/TV Serial set,
they will be shared some interesting
and unknown facts about Bollywood. The Ticketing can be booked online at
www.mumbaifilmcitytours.com and from 15,000+ outlets of MOS Utility
Private Limited across India.
Medium-end package will cost Rs
1999 and the tourist will be given Bollywood on wheel experience known as
Beverly Hills of Bandra. In addition to this, the tourist will be taken to film
studios where a setup is created of Bollywood Gully walkthrough, Bollywood
Museum, Bollywood Café, Bollywood costume gallery and Bollywood VFX Visual
effects-experience. Tourists will be shown how special effects are used in
Bollywood Blockbusters, tour of a television/film serial set and opportunity to
witness live shoot and celebrity spotting.
High-end package comes at Rs 3250
in which besides all facilities of medium-end package additional offering is
the visit to live shooting of Television soap sets in Film City.
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