The tourism department of Goa is strong-willed to concentrate on 11,000 hotels, which are in service unlawfully in the coastal state, said Minister Rohan Khaunte. Minister Khaunte said that the Goa Small and Medium Hoteliers Association has put forward a …

Goa, in association with BLADE India, has launched three helicopter services in order to boost tourism in the Goan hinterlands. Heli tourism services in the state will offer better connectivity to the tourists as well as residents. The helicopters will …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …