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West Bengal Plans 1,000 Tourist Centres to Improve Visitor Facilities
West Bengal wants to build 1,000 centres for tourists.
These centres would offer toilets, drinking water and childcare services.
The plan is meant to help places where visitors currently lack basic facilities.
The Tourism Department will decide where the centres are most needed.
Money from companies’ social responsibility programs will help pay for them.
Local government teams will help identify locations and improve tourism planning.
The state also wants to attract more weddings and large business events.
Officials say working with hotels, tour operators and other private groups could create jobs and increase revenue.
West Bengal plans to establish 1,000 tourist amenity centres across the state.
The centres are expected to provide toilets, drinking water and childcare services.
The project will use corporate social responsibility funds, with locations identified by the Tourism Department.
District and sub-divisional teams will help find destinations needing better infrastructure.
The state also aims to attract weddings and MICE events through private-sector partnerships.
- Who
- West Bengal Tourism Minister Shankar Ghosh and the state Tourism Department.
- What
- A plan to establish 1,000 tourist amenity centres and develop the state as a wedding and MICE destination.
- Where
- Across West Bengal, with the announcement made at Udayachal Tourist Lodge in Salt Lake.
- When
- The plan was announced at a meeting with district officials; no date was specified.
- Why
- To address shortages of toilets, drinking water and childcare services, while strengthening tourism infrastructure, employment and revenue.
Key facts
- Planned centres
- 1,000 tourist amenity centres
- Planned facilities
- Toilets, drinking water and childcare services
- Funding
- Corporate social responsibility funds
- Location planning
- The Tourism Department will identify destinations needing improved amenities.
- Administrative involvement
- District-level and sub-divisional teams have been formed.
- Additional tourism focus
- Weddings and MICE events
- Industry interest
- About 450 wedding planners reportedly expressed interest in promoting West Bengal as a wedding destination.
Quotes
Shankar Ghosh
West Bengal Tourism Minister
“There are tourist destinations where there is no water, no washroom and no childcare facility. We want to change this. We want to ensure that tourists in the state at least get accessto basic facilities, something that was missing for more than a decade in West Bengal”
thestatesman.com
“We can highlight West Bengal as a wedding destination. Wedding and MICE destinations have to be developed here”
thestatesman.com
Sources
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