Council reviews course of inland water tourism
Riverine states want to promote tourism on inland waterways; the Centre too, wants to encourage private participation in this sector, but the fish just aren't biting. At the second meeting of the
Riverine states want to promote tourism on inland waterways; the Centre too, wants to encourage private participation in this sector, but the fish just aren't biting. At the second meeting of the
"I am falling ill in this bus. There are elderly people, women and children. It is getting dark and we are insecure in the middle of this jungle. My cellphone battery is running out. Soon I will lose all contact. Please help us,' Maya Roy (53) tells The Indian Express over her cellphone. A resident of Entally and a patient of hypertension, she is undergoing a nightmare since Saturday night. Without food and water, huddled inside a private bus, she is stuck up near the Lodhasuli forests in West Midnapore on the Orissa-Bengal border.
Draws tourists to Andaman
Mount Kilimanjaro's lions face extinction at the spear point of Maasai cattle herders, warn conservation experts. Once common in rural Kenya, fewer than 150 lions now roam the eco-tourism haven in and around Amboseli National Park, just northwest of Tanzania's famous mountain. Since 2003, local cattle herders have killed 63 lions, often in retaliation for lost livestock, according to National Geographic Society conservationists.
The city is all set to give competition to HongKong or England in the field of eco-tourism. A bio-diveristy park being developed by Delhi Development Authority (DDA) in Wazirabad is likely to
One person was killed and nine others, including five foreign tourists, were injured when a part of the Gaumukh glacier moved and hit these persons near Gaumukh last evening. A team of the Uttarkashi police, forest personnel and rescue workers today reached the spot and carried the injured back to Bhojwasa for treatment. According to Uttarkashi SP Nilesh Anand Bharne, part of the Gaumukh glacier fell on tourists in the area killing a sadhu and injuring four American and one British tourists. Two tourists from West Bengal were also injured.
<p>The National Tiger Conservation Authority in association with its various partner organisations declared the official tiger estimate in India for 2010. This latest tiger census puts estimated tiger population in the country at 1636.<br /> <br /> <br /> <strong>See Also</strong><br />
The Centre has agreed to relax the Protected Area Permits (PAP) for foreign tourists and has created four new tourist circuits which will allow foreigners to visit Arunachal Pradesh and go up to Tuting close to China border. The Union home ministry has delegated power to the Arunachal Pradesh government to issue PAPs to foreign tourists in a group of only two or more for up to 30 days, an official release said here. Earlier foreign tourists were allowed to visit certain areas in the state in a group of no less than four for only 10 days.
Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Vidarbha's star tourist attraction, is buzzing with activity. Inside the 625.40 sq km reserve, excavators are hard at work, digging up earth for an ambitious road-building project. Strips of forest, several metres wide, have been cleared alongside existing roads.
The shady streets of Yangon, one of Asia's greenest cities, could have been changed forever by Cyclone Nargis, which knocked down many of its 100-year-old trees. People in Myanmar's biggest city fear the storm's 190 kph (120 mph) winds not only took lives but also ruined livelihoods, dealing a blow to an already fragile tourism industry. "This was such a beautiful city, but no more," said Kyaw Win, standing by his house next to Kandawgi Lake surveying fallen trees mangled with electricity pylons. "And after the trees fell, it's so hot."
The government will re-advertise five mega projects, including the setting up of a golf course and a health resort, for which bids have been already pending with the government. The aim is to get better response than earlier. With the government deciding to re-advertise these projects aimed at promoting private investment, there is likely to be further delay in the start of work on these projects. The bids that have been pending with the government for the past over one year include big names like the Taj group, Holiday Inn, Ambuja, Skill Infrastructure and the Chokhi Dhani group.
Increasing number of mountaineering expeditions is good news for the tourism industry. However, due to inefficient human waste management, such expeditions invariably end up contributing to a "waste dumping yard" at the highest peak of the world. Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) said the mountain environment is threatened by the problem of human waste due to lack of proper management. "When the snow melts at higher altitudes, the smell of human waste including that of urine becomes intolerable," he said.
That's what Salatin, 51, the second-generation owner of Polyface Farm, commands for a two-hour, personally escorted tour of what may be the most famous family-owned pastures in America. Polyface is a centerpiece of Michael Pollan's best seller The Omnivore's Dilemma: A History of Four Meals, a treatise against the health and environmental costs of industrial agriculture in which Pollan likens the sweet, warm scent of Salatin's compost to "the forest floor in summertime."
Brazil Troops Start Anti-Dengue Foot Patrols BRAZIL: April 9, 2008 RIO DE JANEIRO - Hundreds of Brazilian soldiers swapped ammunition packs for yellow bags of mosquito larvicide on Tuesday, taking the battle against a deadly dengue fever epidemic to the streets of Rio de Janeiro. The outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease has killed 68 people in the state of Rio, most of them in its capital -- a major tourism destination.
For Indian doctors, western shores could be greener. But for an increasing number of foreign patients, Indian hospitals are fast becoming their first choice. Over 1.5 lakh medical tourists travelled to India in 2002 alone, bringing in earnings of $300 million. Since then, the number of such travellers has been increasing by at least 25% every year. A CIIMcKinsey report projects that earnings through medical tourism would go up to $2 billion by 2012.
Human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is an increasingly significant obstacle to the conservation of wildlife. The growing body of HWC literature tends to focus on biological, economic and local aspects associated with HWC. The factors driving HWC at the local level are, however, shaped in turn by
Tourists visiting Aurangabad will be ferried to the exotic Ajanta caves in battery-run buses to provide a pollution-free ambience there, Union minister of tourism and culture Jagmohan said on
Union Culture and Tourism Minister Jagmohan has said research work on the Saraswati river would be undertaken on a priority basis. While addressing a seminar on Saraswati river research held in
The Union Tourism and Cultural Affairs Minister, Jagmohan, would visit Haryana tomorrow to take stock of the research conducted so far to trace origin and course of sacred river Saraswati by
The World Bank has cleared in principle Rs 300 crore assistance to Chhattisgarh for developing ecological tourism. "The World Bank has decided to sanction a Rs 300 crore assistance and a team of the