Goa Tourism Dept to hold 9 tourism & trade exhibitions to woo tourists
Panaji, Nov 4 (UNI) In order to woo more tourists to Goa, the Department of Tourism has planned to hold nine tourism and trade exhibitions across the country. Besides that the department will also participate in tourism trade fairs across the world, a Tourism Department official told UNI. The cities where the exhibitions would be held included Chennai, Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Delhi, Jaipur, Vadodara, Amritsar and Varansai while the world tourism trade fairs which the department will attend were trade fair in Spain, ITB tourism trade fair in Berlin, Germany, MIIT International Travel, tourism show in Russia and BTL tourism exhibition in Portugal.
Process was underway to select an event management agency to handle the pavilions of the Tourism Department, the official said. With Covid restrictions eased in the coastal state and the state reopened for the tourists having received both doses of Covid vaccines, a large number of domestic tourists are heading towards Goa.
As per the official, 89 per cent of the tourists visiting Goa during the peak season of tourism were domestic tourists.
