BHUBANESWAR: In song with the three upcoming airports in Western Odisha, the Hotel and Restaurant Association of Odisha (HRAO) has come forward to promote Odisha as a ‘21 night vacation spot’ with particular center of attention on tourist locations in western Odisha.
The trade frame is planning to attract buyers for setting up additional 5000 rooms across the state in subsequent couple of years to deal with more vacationers. The HRAO has also proposed the federal government to divide Odisha in nine tourism circuits conserving in view the will and style of visitors.
“The upcoming airports at Jharsuguda, Rourkela and Jeypore will open a host of opportunities for the tourism sector in Odisha. Earlier our center of attention has been restricted to Konark-Puri-Bhubaneswar, however with better connectivity now we can center of attention on lesser known locations, the place guests can keep for longer duration and experience as in step with their style,” said chairman HRAO, J K Mohanty. The ’21 night vacation spot’ can be introduced earlier than the next tourist season, he said.
He said, loss of advertising and marketing and lack of high quality resorts are the most important demanding situations for which no longer many vacationers are coming to Odisha compared to other states like Kerala, Rajasthan and New Delhi. “Odisha has simplest 10 big name resorts and 670 categorised rooms. If we come up with 200 additional rooms in each and every district then we can have no less than 6000 additional rooms in the subsequent two to 3 years,” he said.
To attract buyers and expand the tourism facilities in western Odisha, HRAO goes to hold a workshop of stakeholders on June 20 at Sambalpur. In the assembly hoteliers, tour operators, shuttle brokers, executive officials, politicians will talk about threadbare at the plans. “We want to create consciousness about quite a lot of advantages of the state tourism policy, which buyers can avail,” Mohanty added.
The massive tourism doable of Odisha has been mendacity unexplored over the years, he said. “The state has almost the whole thing vacationers need to add of their trip together with majestic monuments, beautiful beaches, hot springs, luxuriant forests, fascinating wildlife and beautiful handloom and handicrafts. We have advised the federal government to divide popular spots into nine tourism circuits and expand, in order that vacationers can keep for an extended duration,” Mohanty added.
The proposed circuits come with, Buddha in Odisha focusing Buddhist tourist spots, eco-tourism, ethnic tour, Golden Triangle of Odisha with Chilika lake, heritage tour, Similipal bundle, Debrigarh bundle, wildlife tour, and textile tour of Odisha.
The trade frame also demanded to set up Odisha Tourism Development Authority with contributors from the federal government and trade, which will center of attention on tourism construction and work as an independent organisation.
The affiliation also demanded the state executive to conduct roadshows in countries attracting vacationers to Odisha like United States, UK, Sri Lanka, Canada, Malaysia, Australia, Germany, France, Japan and South East Asian countries. It demanded to set up a world convention centre and expand facilities like water sports, tourist police, branding and particular media campaigns and e-visa facility at Biju Patnaik International airport here.
The trade frame is planning to attract buyers for setting up additional 5000 rooms across the state in subsequent couple of years to deal with more vacationers. The HRAO has also proposed the federal government to divide Odisha in nine tourism circuits conserving in view the will and style of visitors.
“The upcoming airports at Jharsuguda, Rourkela and Jeypore will open a host of opportunities for the tourism sector in Odisha. Earlier our center of attention has been restricted to Konark-Puri-Bhubaneswar, however with better connectivity now we can center of attention on lesser known locations, the place guests can keep for longer duration and experience as in step with their style,” said chairman HRAO, J K Mohanty. The ’21 night vacation spot’ can be introduced earlier than the next tourist season, he said.
He said, loss of advertising and marketing and lack of high quality resorts are the most important demanding situations for which no longer many vacationers are coming to Odisha compared to other states like Kerala, Rajasthan and New Delhi. “Odisha has simplest 10 big name resorts and 670 categorised rooms. If we come up with 200 additional rooms in each and every district then we can have no less than 6000 additional rooms in the subsequent two to 3 years,” he said.
To attract buyers and expand the tourism facilities in western Odisha, HRAO goes to hold a workshop of stakeholders on June 20 at Sambalpur. In the assembly hoteliers, tour operators, shuttle brokers, executive officials, politicians will talk about threadbare at the plans. “We want to create consciousness about quite a lot of advantages of the state tourism policy, which buyers can avail,” Mohanty added.
The massive tourism doable of Odisha has been mendacity unexplored over the years, he said. “The state has almost the whole thing vacationers need to add of their trip together with majestic monuments, beautiful beaches, hot springs, luxuriant forests, fascinating wildlife and beautiful handloom and handicrafts. We have advised the federal government to divide popular spots into nine tourism circuits and expand, in order that vacationers can keep for an extended duration,” Mohanty added.
The proposed circuits come with, Buddha in Odisha focusing Buddhist tourist spots, eco-tourism, ethnic tour, Golden Triangle of Odisha with Chilika lake, heritage tour, Similipal bundle, Debrigarh bundle, wildlife tour, and textile tour of Odisha.
The trade frame also demanded to set up Odisha Tourism Development Authority with contributors from the federal government and trade, which will center of attention on tourism construction and work as an independent organisation.
The affiliation also demanded the state executive to conduct roadshows in countries attracting vacationers to Odisha like United States, UK, Sri Lanka, Canada, Malaysia, Australia, Germany, France, Japan and South East Asian countries. It demanded to set up a world convention centre and expand facilities like water sports, tourist police, branding and particular media campaigns and e-visa facility at Biju Patnaik International airport here.
Odisha to be promoted as '21 night destination' for tourists
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