The Tourism Department of Tripura is coming up with a planned manner to project the tourism potentiality of the State at the international level during the April 3-4 G20 Science Summit in Agartala.
National and foreign delegates will participate in the Science Meet (S20) in Agartala and they will also visit several tourist spots in the State. The tourist spots are undergoing a major facelift to entertain the foreign as well as national participants, Tourism Minister of Tripura, Sushanta Chowdhury said.
He was speaking at a review meeting of the Tourism Department at the office of Tripura Tourism Development Corporation (Swet Mahal) in Agartala on Friday (March 31).
“We need to think out of the box and plan accordingly to take the tourism sector of our state to new heights. Through the development of tourism sectors, each attractive tourism sector in our state of Tripura can become a model for our own revenue generation and make us self-reliant”, Chowdhury said.
He underscored the importance of tourism in shaping the State economy and said, Tripura has huge potential for tourism and tourism is not just a buzzword associated with high-income group people only. Increasing the variety of facilities at the attractive tourist centers of our state will increase the number of tourists which in turn boosts the associated trade. An increase in the number of tourists means an increase in employment opportunities.
The Minister continued and said, “The villages of our state are also becoming the center of tourism thanks to improved infrastructure. The number of domestic and foreign tourists is also increasing. We have to develop special strategies to attract more number of domestic and foreign tourists to our tourist centers in the state. Religious places need to be redeveloped as tourist attractions”.
To emerge as an attractive tourist destination, he suggested, the tourism sector in Tripura will expand gradually if civic amenities, digital communication systems, good hotels, and other infrastructure can be improved.
“I appeal to all concerned to think about the future with some different ideas to strengthen the tourism sector of the state”, Chowdhury told the officials.