A new array of city souvenirs and a tourist information kiosk was launched at le Corbusier Centre at Sector 19 here on Tuesday.
With Chandigarh’s souvenirs selling like hot cakes, over 10 new memorabilia were introduced at the le Corbusier Centre’s souvenir shop here.
A range of new souvenirs inscribing various city based heritage buildings and reproductions of master architect le Corbusier drawings, paintings and photographs were introduced.
The other souvenirs introduced included key chain Plates, Trays, Shot Glasses, Bone China Cone Mug, Framed Pictures, Crystal Glass Frame, Soap dispenser, tooth brush, i-Phone Covers, i-Pad Sleeve depicting various tourist spots and paintings, sketches of le Corbusier.
Special features of these souvenirs lie in different tourist landmarks, tourist spots of city manifested on each of these special categories.
The price range of these souvenirs are Rs30 onwards at the Souvenir Shop.
The new range of souvenirs can be seen at le Corbusier Centre as well as at Sukhna lake and can also be seen online at the website of Tourism Department
The new range of souvenirs along with Tourist Information Kiosk was formally launched by UT Secretary Tourism DK Tiwari at le Corbusier Centre.
On the occasion, he said, “Chandigarh memorabilia has expanded its bandwidth with addition of lot of variety in style and uniqueness.”
This effort of the UT Administration aims at facilitating tourists in knowing the city better with touch screen kiosk installed at le Corbusier Centre which is visited by lot of foreign tourists as well as domestic tourists.
The tourist information kiosk place at le Corbusier Centre is metal bodied with touch screen facility and is installed with user friendly android based smart application “Chandigarh City Guide” to assist the tourists and general public in getting instant tourist and entertainment information viz in the categories of Hotels, Tourist Attractions, Restaurants and other general information about the city.
The 24 hours touch screen information kiosks will display Chandigarh’s map besides giving information about various tourist attractions, shopping streets, hotels, forthcoming cultural events and information about other public amenities. last year, a tourist information kiosk was placed at UT Guest House.