Goa Tourism extends support to #TeraMeraBeach Campaign launched today at Baga beach

Posted on November 24, 2017 by crtgoa9020
Lots of big talk, its not just about doing such one off events that will help curb the pollution and garbage on the beaches. Do our beaches even have proper dustbins to discard the waste?
Some beaches that do have bins but they are placed so far in the bushes that no one will even walk to them . Also where is this garbage finally dumped? is it sorted and properly disposed or is it simply taken from one place and dumped in another.
PANAJI: Goa Tourism today has extended its support to the #TeraMeraBeach campaign which commenced at Baga Beach on Friday and is scheduled to continue over the next five months at various beaches across the state.

The one-and-a-half hour campaign activity is aimed at creating awareness about cleanliness on the beaches of Goa everyday through music and art and on-shore cleanliness drives.

Initiated by Drishti Marine, the innovative beach cleanliness campaign will also cover the sandy shores of Calangute, Candolim, Miramar and Colva.

The campaign will sensitize tourists on issues concerning waste and its management using the techniques of music and art from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm.

The #TeraMeraBeach campaign was today inaugurated at Baga beach by Michael Lobo, deputy Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly.

Menino D’Souza, director of tourism said “Goa tourism supports the #TeraMeraBeach campaign which will serve as a good platform to create awareness about cleanliness and hygiene on the beaches of Goa. The government is very serious about ensuring cleanliness on the beaches which covers 105 kms of the states coastline.”

Such awareness campaigns, D’Sousa said will encourage tourists not to litter waste on the beaches and create awareness about segregation of solid waste. “It will further sensitize tourists to minimize the use of plastic waste and glass bottles on the beaches which is creating a huge problem in the state, polluting beaches and destroying the marine eco-systems.”

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Goa in the list of top five Indian states in tourism

Posted on November 23, 2017 by crtgoa9020

Really ?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/goa-in-the-list-of-top-five-indian-states-in-tourism/articleshow/61766283.cms

The 5th biennial Hotelivate State Ranking Survey for Tourism done in association with the World Travel & Tourism Council-India Initiative (WTTC-II) has ranked Goa third in the list of top five states in tourism.

While Delhi and Maharashtra are at the top two places, Goa stands third followed by Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.

The survey which looked at States from the hospitality industry’s standpoint considered 11 parameters namely: state expenditure on tourism, number of tourist visits, number of branded hotel rooms, GSDP

per capital, literacy, aircraft movement, ease of doing business, urbanization, road and rail network, marketing campaigns and some intangible aspects.

In the survey report, Goa is placed among the top three positions in four parameters: State expenditure on tourism, presence of branded hotel rooms, GSDP per capita and urbanization.

The reports states that Goa has the second-highest density of branded hotel rooms in India, and has consistently been maintaining its rank over the last four surveys.

Both these aspects highlight Goa’s attractiveness as a tourist destination from the perspective of tourists, hoteliers and the government alike.

 

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GTDC: master plan to lay emphasis on sustainability of tourism

Posted on November 23, 2017 by crtgoa9020
Any plan that is drawn out without taking the local stake holders into account is meant to be a plan only on paper. All local stakeholders on the ground have to be made accountable and have to share in the responsibility towards making tourism a non polluting industry.
 
GTDC only has pipe dreams and those will only remain on paper.

http://www.navhindtimes.in/gtdc-master-plan-to-lay-emphasis-on-sustainability-of-tourism/

 

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Govt agrees in principle to 90% subsidy on taxi digital meters

Posted on November 23, 2017 by crtgoa9020

The taxi owners and drivers have accepted dole from the government and now will have to dance to their tunes . They will now tell them who they should buy these meters from and who will service them and just like the last time they were asked to install outdated redundant meters, this time too will be the same cat and mouse story

http://www.navhindtimes.in/govt-agrees-in-principle-to-90-subsidy-on-taxi-digital-meters/

 

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Cab owners in South Goa regret leaving traditional occupations

Posted on November 21, 2017 by crtgoa9020

Unfortunately the taxi drivers because of a few black sheep in the pack have succumbed politicians who have never felt the need to sort out their grievances. They have allowed themselves to get carried away especially when there were viable options offered to them. In the process they have lost all public sympathy.

http://epaper.navhindtimes.in/NewsDetail.aspx?storyid=10590&date=2017-11-21&pageid=1

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GTDC to push IPB for ropeway

Posted on November 21, 2017 by crtgoa9020

Cabral yet again trying to gain back door access to projects that have no future . Nilesh Cabral insist that the rope way is a green project, indeed he sees it as green, as green as the cuts the contract will get him

http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/Details.aspx?id=31981&boxid=15149570&uid=&dat=11/21/2017

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