Uttarakhand’s Tourism and Culture Minister Satpal Maharaj along with the Tourism Minister of Greece, Harry Theoharis inaugurated the Outbound Travel Mart (OTM) in Mumbai on Monday. Along with Uttarakhand Tourism, 60 private hoteliers are participating in this event wherein they are expected to make commercial exchanges with domestic and international hoteliers.
The State’s Tourism department is also using the event to publicise various coming events including the national skiing and snowboard championship to be held at Auli, international Yoga festival to be held in Rishikesh, Tehri lake festival, Uttarakhand adventure summit to be held in Ramnagar and other events planned in Uttarakhand. Speaking on the occasion, Maharaj said that participation in such events provides wide publicity to the state’s tourism destinations, folk culture, food and handicrafts while also benefiting businessmen of the state.
The state’s adventure tourism destinations will also get publicised at the national and international level. He said that Uttarakhand is building its unique identity in the world when it comes to adventure sports. Events like the OTM will help generate more sources of employment which in turn will strengthen local economy. Maharaj also informed that the State will be organising the Uttarakhand Adventure Summit at Ramnagar in Nainital district on March 20-22. He also invited to this event, investors interested in tapping the vast potential in Uttarakhand for skiing, paragliding, rafting and other adventure activities. At OTM in Mumbai, Tourism finance director Jaypal Singh Tomar and deputy director Yogendra Kumar Gangwar are representing the State’s tourism department.