NAMSAI, Sep 27:

 

Deputy Chief Minister, Chowna Mein addressing the World Tourism Day celebration at Arunachal University of Studies here called for planned infrastructure development in the State to provide affordable accommodation, comfortable transportation and to create a safe atmosphere for tourists to make them feel at ease to visit, travel, stay and invest in any part of the State.

‘The need of the hour is to convert the enormous tourism potential into income generating activities and employment creating avenues,’ he asserted calling for promoting and marketing local handlooms and handicrafts to the outside world.

He called for change in the mindsets and attitudes to create a friendly atmosphere for the visitors in the State.

Mein said that it is high time to develop and design fine products of handlooms and handicrafts and make it attractive to tourists by value addition and creativeness.

Citing cultural tourism as the largest and fastest growing global tourism markets, the DyCM  added that our multi-colour festivals provides a big platform to promote cultural tourism and can be turned into major tourists events.

Stressing to harness the potentials of eco-tourism he opined to evolve a policy to involve local communities and let them partake of the income received from the tourist enterprise so as to make them realize that bio-diversity can be a source of income too.

He also advocated to upgrade historical monuments and religious and heritage sites of the State to attract more tourists and to provide tourist destinations with internet/Wi-Fi facility.

He, however, cautioned that in the efforts to maximize benefits, efforts must also be made to minimize the adverse impact of tourism industry on indigenous cultures and biological diversity.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
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