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Arunachal Pradesh wooing tourists through festivals
Guwahati, Sept 19: Arunachal Pradesh, with its scenic beauty and huge potential for tourism, is taking steps to attract tourists by organising a series of festivals.
Guwahati, Sept 19: Arunachal Pradesh, with its scenic beauty and huge potential for tourism, is taking steps to attract tourists by organising a series of festivals.
The Arunachal Pradesh government, besides developing tourist infrastructure at remote places, organised three major festivals as "tourism events" in a bid to woo tourists to have a glimpse of the state's culture.
Secretary of the Arunachal Pradesh tourism department G N Sinha says the three annual tourism events have been a major success. The events have also helped in creating awareness about the growth potential in the state. The three events, Brahmaputra Darshan Festival, Buddha Mahotsava Festival and Festival of Arunachal had a visible impact on the inflow of tourists, Sinha says.
Apart from tourist point of view, the festivals also helped in bringing about a positive development in the growth of amenities as hotels and way side facilities even in remote areas, he says.
Festivals apart, the government was implementing various schemes under the state plan as well as funds from the Centre to develop adventure tourism, aero sports and opening of touch screen kiosks, he says. Sinha says Arunachal Pradesh has 82 per cent of its geographical area under forest cover displaying phenomenal bio-diversity.
It is for this reason that the state has been identified as one of the 25 hot spots of mega bio-diversity in the world.
Another unique feature is the presence of close symbiotic relationship between habitants and the cultural diversity which opens up great opportunity for development of eco tourism.
In fact, Arunachal Pradesh was one of the few states of the country to have announced a separate tourism policy in 2001 which aimed at developing tourism as an industry and use it as an engine of growth for the benefit of the people of the state, the secretary says. Bureau Report
Secretary of the Arunachal Pradesh tourism department G N Sinha says the three annual tourism events have been a major success. The events have also helped in creating awareness about the growth potential in the state. The three events, Brahmaputra Darshan Festival, Buddha Mahotsava Festival and Festival of Arunachal had a visible impact on the inflow of tourists, Sinha says.
Apart from tourist point of view, the festivals also helped in bringing about a positive development in the growth of amenities as hotels and way side facilities even in remote areas, he says.
Festivals apart, the government was implementing various schemes under the state plan as well as funds from the Centre to develop adventure tourism, aero sports and opening of touch screen kiosks, he says. Sinha says Arunachal Pradesh has 82 per cent of its geographical area under forest cover displaying phenomenal bio-diversity.
It is for this reason that the state has been identified as one of the 25 hot spots of mega bio-diversity in the world.
Another unique feature is the presence of close symbiotic relationship between habitants and the cultural diversity which opens up great opportunity for development of eco tourism.
In fact, Arunachal Pradesh was one of the few states of the country to have announced a separate tourism policy in 2001 which aimed at developing tourism as an industry and use it as an engine of growth for the benefit of the people of the state, the secretary says. Bureau Report