Continuing with my Murud -Janjira trip tales, as we wandered from one location to another, I again realised that the tourism development board in India needs to take a long hard look at how they are woefully underultilizing the tourism potential of India. I mean, there are abundant attractive places across India and still we lack the basic presentation and packaging skills to make these places tourist worthy.
Lets take the example of Murud Janjira itself. The Janjira fort will put Alcatraz Island to shame in terms of location and architecture. Yet today if you visit Alcatraz, it is a tourist delight whereas Janjira is a nightmare. Everything at Alcatraz looks neat, clean, preserved and presentable, while Janjira is exactly the opposite, unclean, unkept and in shambles. The biggest distinction probably between the two is that while Alcatraz has been given a national recreation area status, no one knows what status Janjira holds with Indian tourism authorities.
And its just not about bestwoing a status. I am sure India has many national monuments that are lying neglected and ravaged. The question is why is there so much apathy then . Don't we care about our tourism industry and the tourist at all ? Or is it just plain indifference.
I am leaving you with food some food for thought - at the best and most popular of tourist detsinations in India there isn't even a provision of clean and hygenic loo and pure plain drinking water. Its not asking for more. But then I guess over half of India's population too is asking for these two things.
So dear tourists you are in a long queue.
1 comment:
Sagar, you have rightly pointed out the fact that our government has not done much to preserve many of the Indian heritage. Due to this negligence, we might have lost many of our cultural heritage.
However, i feel we cannot entirely blame it on the government. Even we as citizens are very much responsible for all the heritage buildings in our country. We need to be more responsible and moreover we form the government! Its matter of inculcating responsibility within each of us.Rita xoxox
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