The Odisha Government would internationally showcase the forthcoming major religious event of the Trinity at Puri, the Nabakalebar 2015, to attract tourists to the State.
The State’s Minister of Tourism and Culture Ashok Chandra Panda on Saturday said this to mediaperons in New Delhi before leaving for the UK to attend the World Travel Market (WTM), a global event of travel industry, in london.
The four-day WTM will be held from Monday in which the Odisha Tourism will set up a pavilion to showcase the State’s tourism potential. The Nabakalebar and the State’s Buddhist Circuit will be presented in a big way.
Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Tourism & Culture Arabinda Kumar Padhee along with Odisha-based internationally-acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik is also travelling to london.
Sudarsan Patnaik would make sand animations on the State’s tourism potential and its culture and heritage, said Minister Panda. Pattnaik’s first international show of his sand sculptures was at the london WTM in 1998 when the India Tourism took him along to perform.