"Details on tariff, packages and places of interest at various destinations will be just a call away," he said.

The phone number of the call centre is being finalised. All the four tourism agencies are expecting a good response on the opening day of the call centre.

The departments will also carry out a small campaign to reach out to tourists about the benefits of using the call centre.

Since most of the bookings will be done online, a high volume of requests for information on any destination can be handled, which will be useful to foreign tourists as well as domestic ones.