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Fancy tourist projects fail to take off

This is the famous story of Nilesh Cabral and his pipe dreams!!   GTDC under his leadership cannot sustain their existing projects, all the residencies under GTDC either are in shambles or are on the road to extinction.   Without … Continue reading →

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First chartered flight with 519 Russians lands in Goa

We give so much of preference to chartered tourists and chartered flights. When the reality of the matter is that only a mere 13 percent of what these tourists actually pay comes down into the Goan economy. While the balance … Continue reading →

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Now an affordable taxi service in Panjim

This will definitely lead to social tensions which cold have been well avoided if the Taxi associations had not dragged their feet on many solutions and viable suggestions that had been proposed to them. http://epaper.navhindtimes.in/NewsDetail.aspx?storyid=10648&date=2017-10-01&pageid=1

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Extension of military flights will hamper chartered arrivals at Dabolim

Messais predicts a 50 percent drop in the charter flights. His reason being the extension of flying hours for military flight by the Indian Navy.   Doesn’t Messias know that tourist have stopped coming to Goa not because of non … Continue reading →

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CRT’s 10th Anniversary celebrations

The Center For Responsible Tourism celebrated its 10th Anniversary on 27th September 2018. Nila Mohanan, Collector of North Goa was the Chief Guest for the function and Ranjan Solomon was the Guest of Honor. There was an inter collegiate debate that took … Continue reading →

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Now, CM promises to solve taxi issues by December

Parrikar talks of solving 2 issues by December. He says taxi’s are one, I wonder which is the other? http://englishnews.thegoan.net/story.php?id=37143   Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar insisted that he intends to keep his promise on solving the issues plaguing the taxi … Continue reading →

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