Agartala, Dec 11, 2024, By Our Correspondent
Abundant natural beauty and cultural diversity offers the most promising areas for the development of tourism industry in the state, and keeping this in mind the ambitious Tripura Tourism Promo Fest-2024 is being held for the first time under the initiative of the Department of Tourism. The idea is to showcase the tourism potential to the foreign and domestic tourists.
While inaugurating the third event of the Fest at Vangmun in Jampui Hills on Wednesday Toursim Minister Sushanta Chowdhury said, the first and second events of this promo fest were organized at Narikelkunj and Neermahal.
The minister said, the initiatives have been taken for the infrastructural development of tourist centers in the state. This is increasing the arrival of tourists from different parts of the world to the state.
“The tourism industry also has huge potential to create employment opportunities in the state”, Chowdhury said adding that for the development of the tourism industry, initiatives had also been taken to develop home stay opportunities in various tourist centers of the state.
“The Department of Tourism is working with the aim of accelerating the revival of the tourism industry in the state. We all have one objective, development of tourism industry in the state. Our dream is to take the tourism industry to the highest peak of height”, he said.
The minister said, since employment, life, livelihood are all related to the development of this industry, we have been working tirelessly to find out how to highlight or make the attractive tourist spots of the state more attractive”.
Chowdhury said, Jampuihill is the only hill station in the state. Taking advantage of the natural beauty of this place, initiatives will be taken to develop tourism in Jampuihills.
On the occasion, Industry and Commerce Minister Santana Chakma thanked the Tourism Department for organizing such a festival in Jampuihill. She said that initiatives should be taken to develop the tourism industry by utilizing the natural beauty of Jampuihill.
Tourism Department Secretary UK Chakma delivered the welcome address on the occasion. Jampuihil BAC Chairman MLA Chungnungga presided over the function. Among the other guests present at the festival were North Tripura Zilla Parishad Chairperson Aparna Nath, MLA Philip Kumar Riang, MLA Pramod Riang, ADC Executive Member Bhavaranjan Riang, MDC Broonanda Riang, MDC Shailendra Nath, Laljuri BAC Chairman Ajant Kumar Chowdhury, Tourism Department Director Prashant Badal Negi, North Tripura District Additional District Commissioner L Darlong, Kanchanpur SDM Dr. Deepak Kumar and others. In the festival, local artistes along with eminent artistes of the state performed musics, Cherao and Hajagiri dances.