New move to promote tourism in northern circuit
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17/12/2003
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Hindu (New Delhi)
With a view to promoting and increasing tourist traffic across the Northern State tourist circuit, a meeting of State Secretaries and Directors of Tourism and Transport of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan and Delhi was held here today. It was presided over by the Punjab Tourism Minster, Jagmohan Singh Kang.Mr. Kang said that there was tremendous potential to generate revenue in the sector, which these States were not able to exploit to the full due to lack of coordination among the northern States and in the absence of a single type of tax structure for each category. He emphasised the need to have a uniform tax regime in each category on tourist vehicles in these States. The southern States, he said, had already set up a forum to rationalise the tax structure of tourist vehicles and taken the lead in promoting their destinations