Published on : Thursday, December 23, 2021
For Goa, this is no regular tourist season for the small coastal Indian state, which is reliant on tourism for more than 16 per cent of its gross domestic product. 2021 was supposed to be the year that international travel …
Published on : Wednesday, December 1, 2021
The emergence of a new and potentially more transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus has brought enough tensions amid a promising tourism season for Goa’s charter tour operators. The industry was preparing for foreign tourists for the first time after …
Published on : Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Before the world-renowned Christmas-New Year celebrations in Goa, the tourism sector in the state is keeping a tab on the possible impact of a new coronavirus variant that was detected in Southern Africa recently and one which the World Health …
Published on : Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Goa’s hospitality industry with the help of coastal tourism and casinos hasgrabbed the limelight in the last few years. Goa tourism policy 2020 aims to change that idea by promoting eco-tourism, cultural and heritage tourism. The new policy talks about …
Published on : Wednesday, September 15, 2021
In the wake of tar balls surfacing on beaches across Goa, on Tuesday, Manohar Ajgaonkar, the state Tourism Minister, guaranteed that within the next two days, the shorelines will be cleaned up. In the weekend, tar balls got washed up …
Published on : Monday, September 13, 2021
With the Center yet to grant a request by Goa’s tourism sector for air bubble arrangements with a handful of nations, tour operators in the state are apprehensive that any further delay in an announcement will take away charter tourism …
Published on : Friday, August 20, 2021
Even though the hospitality sector is yet to bounce back with full scale operations, the tourism department from next monthwould kick-start the process of renewing the licences for the beach shack allottees. To quote a tourism official, “Since hotels have …
Published on : Saturday, August 14, 2021
On Thursday, while speaking to the reporters, Goa Minister Michael Lobo said, “Tourists are visiting Goa with RT-PCR negative certificates. We welcome them but they’ve to wear masks and follow COVID-19 protocols. We’ve to be careful and understand that it’s …
Published on : Monday, August 9, 2021
Several tourists in the Calangute-Candolim beach area are now making the use of their vacations to get vaccinated as nightclubs, casinos and other entertainment venues have been shut and water-sports are called off due to the pandemic related restrictions. Dr. …
Published on : Friday, June 25, 2021
Goa’s Ports Minister Michael Lobo said that this tourism friendly coastal state will reopen for tourists only with proper screening. On June 22, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had announced that the impulsiveness of the third COVID-19 wave may have …
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