Union Government has provided a big stimulus to travel and tourism sector by opening almost all segments of the sector, with in the country from 8th June, despite Covid crisis still around.
Govt has further facilitated the Industry and travellers by putting in place ,health-safety related travel infrastructure and protocol at airports ,railways and public transport and by issuing guidelines and SOPs for hotels, restaurants, malls and tourism destinations.
The stage is now set for State/UT tourism departments to restart and rebuild domestic tourism. The tourism Industry in the States/UT has to reciprocate by dispelling fears from the minds of domestic travellers by following the health-safety protocol , in words, conduct and action.
In the webinar, convened by New Tourism Foundation, Jammu and Kashmir was taken as the first focus state in its series of ‘Rebuilding Domestic Tourism ‘ for the reasons, that J&K as a destination and its tourism products like Nature, Eco, Religious,Adventure are more suited for domestic travellers from their health -safety point of view ; that J&K is still largely unexplored by domestic tourists and that with its new status as UT, the expected increased growth of tourism infrastructure will provide a boost to domestic tourism .
It was a pleasure to speak at the webinar, and suggest some options to take domestic tourism in J&K forward.
My views and thoughts on the subject are in the attached video film.
Union Government has provided a big stimulus to travel and tourism sector by opening almost all segments of the sector, with in the country from 8th June, despite Covid crisis still around. Govt has further facilitated the Industry and travellers by putting in place ,health-safety related travel infrastructure and protocol at airports ,railways and public transport and by issuing guidelines and SOPs for hotels, restaurants, malls and tourism destinations.The stage is now set for State/UT tourism departments to restart and rebuild domestic tourism. The tourism Industry in the States/UT has to reciprocate by dispelling fears from the minds of domestic travellers by following the health-safety protocol , in words, conduct and action.In the webinar, convened by New Tourism Foundation, Jammu and Kashmir was taken as the first focus state in its series of 'Rebuilding Domestic Tourism ' for the reasons, that J&K as a destination and its tourism products like Nature, Eco, Religious,Adventure are more suited for domestic travellers from their health -safety point of view ; that J&K is still largely unexplored by domestic tourists and that with its new status as UT, the expected increased growth of tourism infrastructure will provide a boost to domestic tourism .It was a pleasure to speak at the webinar, and suggest some options to take domestic tourism in J&K forward.My views and thoughts on the subject are in the attached video film.
Posted by Vinod Zutshi Ias Retd on Wednesday, 10 June 2020
