As an initiative to mark World Tourism Day, members of Travel Club received passengers who arrived in two morning flights and greeted them with sweets at the airport terminal here on Tuesday.
More than 150 passengers were given a table-top album containing colourful pictures of heritage sites, cultural activities and festivals of Madurai. The passengers included Tamil film actors, directors, business persons and foreign tourists.
Travel Club president S. Arumainathan, vice-president K. Muralidharan, secretary B.S.G. Musthafa and other officer-bearers of the club welcomed them.
Prominent among those received include actors Karthi and Nazar, directors Amir and Seeman, and industrialist Nalli Kuppusamy.
Since 1980, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) celebrates World Tourism Day on September 27. It was the day in 1970 in which two statutes of the UNWTO were adopted. The theme of this year is ‘Tourism – Linking Cultures.'
