Now that the venue for the Indian Premier League in the second season has been decided, and after Kingfisher Airlines has been chosen as the official flying partner for the event, Kingfisher has selected SOTC, a division of Kuoni Travel India as tour partner to Kingfisher Airlines for the DLF-IPL 2009 to be held in South Africa between April 18 and May 24.

SOTC is one of the biggest travel agents in the country, operating chartered tours to foreign countries has been selected as the Tour Partner by the Kingfisher Airlines to work out the logistic arrangements that would facilitate in taking fans to South Africa to soak in the ambience of the IPL. With an objective to attract the fans to South Africa, SOTC has created a new vertical called as SOTC Sport Abroad. This has introduced various attractive packages with exclusive offers. The base level package for tour to South Africa starts from Rs.60,000 for 3 nights 4 days and include accommodation, match tickets, airfare, and sightseeing. The significant feature of this package would be that the cricket enthusiasts could watch all the eight teams playing in the IPL tournament.Exuding delight on the eve of being appointed as the Tour Partner to Kingfisher Airlines, Kashmira Commissariat – Head Outbound Division Kuoni India felt that it was a matter of honor to be appointed as the Tour Partner to Kingfisher Airlines for the DLF IPL 2009. The company would not relegate the package only to viewing of IPL matches but would include special sightseeing to some of the world’s most breathtaking cliffs, canyons and wilderness of South Africa, apart from providing an opportunity to watch IPL matches in South Africa.

P Srinivas, Senior Vice President (special interest tours), SOTC informed that SOTC Sport Abroad have constructed the packages in such a manner that it would be as uniquely remarkable as South Africa itself. SOTC is one of the few companies in India that specialized in sports tourism and has a dedicated team of professionals across India who specialize only in sports events.

It would however be interesting to see how many fans would finally stand up and get counted. After all, to be on the ground to watch the matches, would ordain burning of more than a lakh rupees and there would hardly be any such cricket enthusiasts who would agree to spend money to watch game of cricket of T20 variety in South Africa.
Source – cricket360.com