India International Travel Mart (IITM) is to be held in Cochin from 27^th to 29^th January at the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium. IITM is India’s premier exhibition that showcases travel, tourism, hospitality, leisure and other related industries. It is one of the most important events for the travel and hospitality industry in our state. IITM-Cochin will focus on raising the standards of travel trade by offering the industry new solutions. It will also bring in the much needed international exposure to the brands of Kerala giving them a solid platform to enhance their business. IITM is aimed at bringing the industry face to face with the travel trade, corporate buyers and the end customers with the requisite purchasing power.

The exhibition has been organized by Sphere Travel media and Exhibitions Private Ltd. IITM will have a comfortable ambience with a festive atmosphere. Free networking dinners and cocktails will be organized and merchandises will be distributed among the participants. The main highlights of this event are exploring Cochin as a travel destination, opportunity to meet consumers and corporate buyers, new networking opportunities for the participants and a chance to create new tie-ups and collaborations with international brands. Over 130 exhibitors and 4000 visitors are expected to visit this event.

You cannot miss out on this great opportunity to rub shoulders with biggest names of travel industry and enthusiasts. To know more about this event, visit www.iitmindia.com

Cochin will be equipped with a world class Container Freight Station (CFS) soon. The new CFS will be the first of its kind and will be developed at Vallarpadam near the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT). This project will be a joint venture by Gateway Distriparks and Chakait Groups. The CFS will be a great boost to the logistics operations in the state. The proposed CFS will be set on around five hectares of areas and will have a capacity to handle 2000 TEUS containers. The CFS will be lanced with facilities like godowns and warehousing along with handling equipments like lifts and cranes.

The CFS is definitely going to be the next big thing in Cochin. The operations will be under the observance of the Cochin Port Trust. With the setting up of CFS will boost up the economy of the state in a greater way and will end the fight between the customs and the special economic zone. The setting up of CFS, Cochin will emerge as an international maritime hub thereby opening up new avenues for business and employment.

Looking for ways to break up a bad case of math monotony? Elevate Mobility, a iphone development company in Kochi provides a refreshingly fun and challenging game that emphasize math fun. Find it in App Store here.

Develop problem solving skills, mathematical intelligence, practice creative thinking, and give your brain a good workout. Along with math skills, memory and speed play a big part in the game, making it all the more challenging and fun. Challenge your friends of Facebook; enjoy playing together and see if you can better your child’s time. The Math Mission game is designed to spice up mathematics, revive interest in the subject, and ensure excellent retention.

Three great reasons why you should download the Math Mission App

1) It provides engaging opportunities for students to improve their mathematical skills, deepen their understanding of numbers and operations, and to practice computation.
2) It encourages strategic mathematical thinking and reasoning as students find an optimal way (rather than just any way) of playing the game.
3) And most importantly, provide opportunities for families and friends to do math together in a fun way

Math Mission is true testimony to the philosophy that games are important tools for learning. This game is sure to bring about hours of practice in basic math computation. Kids and adults alike will love practicing their computation skills with the Math Mission app. And remember, Practice makes perfect! Do give the app a whirl and drop your impression in the comments below.

All you book lovers in Cochin, Here is the chance to quench your undying thirst for words. The 15th Kochi International Book Festival is scheduled to be opened next month.

The 15th edition of the annual event has witnessed lakhs of people thronging the stalls at the festival. The festival, as told by the publishing community, gives them an excellent platform for them to bring out their new publications to the readers. The confluence of various genres of publishing, brings to readers everything under the sky from fiction, children’s books, science, history not only in English but in other native Indian languages as well. Also the libraries across the city have always seen this festival as an opportunity to choose the books and expand their collections.

The event is scheduled to be organized from the 2nd of December to the 11th of December at the Ernakulathappan Grounds.

So don’t miss this opportunity . Happy reading !!!

Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and FICCI are together organizing a 2-day workshop on Challenges and Opportunities for  SME’s here in Cochin. The workshop is aiming at improving the entrepreneurial skills of small scale and aspiring businessmen/women.

Matters like opportunities in Technology sector, Manufacturing, Service Industry, Outsourcing, Credit Rating, Source Finance schemes, etc handled by experts in the field. Also attending the workshop are prominent women businesswomen like Mrs.Sheela Kochouseph, MD, V Star Creations, Mrs. Parveen Hafiz, MD, Sunrise Hospitals, and Mrs. Jyoti D Aswani, MD, My Kingdom. Mrs. Shipra Chatterjee, Executive Director, FICCI FLO.

So don’t miss an opportunity to learn a thing or two from the experts which definitely would help you succeed in your business.

For registration and further queries , kindly contact office of the Indian Chamber at 0484 222 4335/5966.

Venue : Hotel Abad Plaza, M G Road, Cochin

Date : October 28 and 29, 2011

Design Angadi – The exhibition of construction and property development is about to start at Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium from 14^th October to 17^th October. This event will showcase the most innovative products and services in the building trade related to construction, interiors, landscaping, articrafts and various related services. The purpose of this event is to strengthen the relationship between architects and the public. This event will be bestowed with reputed builders, business corners, work exhibition pavilions and food courts.

The details of this event are:

Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium, Kaloor, Kochi.

Date: 14^th October to 17^th October.

Time: 10 am onwards upto 10 hours of event duration.

The Kochi city will witness a get-together of a rare genre this week. Cyber mystics from across the globe will fly down to the Queen of Arabian Sea for two days and will deliberate on the new trends in the international hacking scenario. c0c0n 2011, a global platform where hackers come together to discuss and deliberate new developments will begin in the city on October 7.Over 20 cyber security experts from across the globe, including Michael Kemp from the UK, Celil Unuver from Turkey and Fyodor Yarochkin from Taiwan will speak at the 25 sessions, focusing on various aspects of cyber security, including mobile technology, e-commerce and banking and new challenges in cyber banking. Various technical, non-technical, legal and community events will be organized as a
part of c0c0n 2011. This is a two day event and will conclude on 8^th October.

The details of this event are:

Venue: Holiday Inn Cochin, NH bypass Vennala 33/1739 A, Chakkaraparambu Junction, Kochi.

Date: 7^th and 8^th October.

Time: 9 am to 5 pm on 7^th October, 8:30 am onwards on 8^th October.

To know more follow:
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hackers-to-brainstorm-in-kochi/189733-60-122.html

http://www.informationsecurityday.com/c0c0n/index.html

The women’s wing of the Kerala Brahmana Sabha, Ernakulam Unit is organizing an exhibition-cum-sale of clay dolls meant for the ‘Bommai Kolu’ as a precursor for the upcoming Navarathri. This exhibition showcases clay dolls of various deities meant for traditional ‘Bommai Kolu’ displays which accompany Navarathri celebrations at Brahmin houses. Apart from the traditional clay dolls of deities, other clay and Plaster-Of –Paris sculptures and decorative figurines are also showcased and sold. These dolls and figurines are brought from Bunrotti, Velacheri and Madurai in Tamil Nadu. This year, the exhibition contains more than 270 varieties of clay dolls and figurines worth a total of Rs 3 lakhs.

The details of this exhibition are:

Venue: Gramajana Samooham Hall, Ernakulam Temple Premises, Kochi.

Date: This exhibition is open for a fortnight (begun from Monday; 19^th September).

Time: 3pm to 8 pm.

Hospitality sector in Kochi region is booming at a much faster rate. Kochi got a welcome addition when Flora Airport Hotel (a new four star facility) to cater to business and leisure class opened near the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) at Nedumbasserry recently. This new four star facility is located just opposite to the international terminal at the Kochi airport premises. Flora Airport Hotel belongs to the Dubai based Flora Hotels Group and this hotel is the first among the series of hospitality ventures planned in India. First the Holiday Inn and now Flora hotels, this explains the growing rate of Kochi.

The Flora Hotels Groups had entered into the customer oriented venture in 2008 by opening the ‘Oberon’  - the first ever multi level shopping mall in Kochi. The unique feature of Flora Airport Hotel is its banquet facility which can host upto 500 guests. Apart from the wide range of facilities and amenities open for exploration at the hotel, guest can even decide on a round of golf at the neighbourhood course. Whether you decide to relax and take it easy or step up the activity levels, everyday at Flora is filled with the things that makes life worth living.

When you try to visualize Kerala from outside the state, a rich green landscape, breath taking beauty, snaking backwaters comes to your mind invariably. This is true, but apart from all these Kerala is a development model that is touted in various corners of the development and the heart of development is Kochi.

Kochi is economically booming at an exponential rate, and this is the high time to set up business in Kochi. Nowadays people are struggling to find a workspace in Kochi in order to setup their business and moreover it is quite difficult to get one. Those who are interested to start their own business to save cash, to test the sometimes turbulent waters of business world before signing a lease for their office space; in these current circumstances, Quality Business Centre (QBC) comes up with an idea of virtual office.

Virtual office spaces are a popular concept in the USA and other developed nations and it is also gaining traction in metros in India. A virtual office is a combination of off-site live communication and address service that allows users to reduce traditional office costs while maintaining business professionalism. In this era, people who have a dream to set up business at Kochi, QBC is the right choice. QBC provides virtual office facility, the first of its kind in Kerala.

Do you have questions similar to the ones below?

Does your business lend itself well to operating in a virtual environment?

Are your employees willing to work from their homes or other moving targets?

Do you simply think the environmental benefits are the reason enough to consider a virtual work space?

Whatever the dilemma you face, QBC will guide you through these issues. Virtual office has shown growth even during the period of recession in many countries. The pros that make virtual office into a kind of recession proof business opportunities are reduced overhead while keeping high professionalism and the flexible work environment.

To learn more about virtual office and to clear your queries regarding the same just log in to www.qbconline.co.in .