Arunachal Predesh is promoting its unique tourism products to the entire nation and the world so that tourism truly becomes the growth engine of the state as it has potential to emerge the adventure and exotic tourism hub of India.
“We are still lagging behind as regards awareness about our tourists destinations and products as only around 5,000 foreign and 3.5 lakh domestic tourists visited Arunachal Pradesh last year. We want to pomote our state to the entire nation and the world so that tourism truly becomes the growth eninge of Arunachal Pradesh on the lines of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh,” said Arunachal Pradesh Tourism Secretary Dr Joram Beda while talking to The Pioneer.
Arunachal Pradesh on Friday held its first Arunachal Pradesh Tourism Convlave 2017, which was graced by MoS for Home Kiren Rijiju.
The state is not only organising theme-based events like Tawang festival, Ziro festival of music, Arunachal spring carnival, adventure of Mechuka and Kameng river festival like unique attractions the state offers but have also entered into strategic partnership with four key partners- Oxigen Wallet, MakeMyTrip.com, Travel Association of India and The National Film Development Corporation of India for seamless services to the tourists in the state.
“In view of these partnerships and a wide variety of tourism options which are largely unexplored tourism industry of the state is well poised for yearly growth of around 20 per cent in the next three years,” added Beda.
Arunachal Pradesh has tremendous scope for development of various types of tourism activities, such as cultural tourism, adventure tourism, historical tourism, wildlife tourism, nature based tourism and eco-tourism. Keeping in view all the factors and rich tourism potentiality of the state, the Department of Tourism, during last couple of years had taken up various developmental programmes to boost up tourism activities in the state.