The week-long extravaganza during World Tourism Week concluded on Tuesday amidst celebrations and festivities. The celebrations were concluded on Tuesday evening with Hasya Kavi Sammelan organised at Tagore Theatre, Sector 18 here in which renowned Hasya Kavi namely Arun Gemini, Hukka Bijnori, Dr Mohinder Sharma, Jagjit Sufi and the comedian of laughter Challange Season 2 Shambhu Sikhar and of Season 4 Yusaf Bhardwaj enthralled the audience with their performances.
The day celebrations started with painting competition at the Garden of Palms, Sector 42 here on the theme ‘Tourist Spots of Chandigarh’. About 200 students from Government schools participated in the competition. A street play was also organised at Plaza, Sector 17 to make aware the youth against the “Facebook addiction”. The world tourism week 2014 had an array of activities including morning raga musical bonanza, tourism walk, photography, free hop on hop off rides, Bollywood musical nite and Punjabi musical nite and much more.
The tourism week, through these special tourism events enabled the residents and visitors to get involved in knowing various aspects of architecture, tourism spots and tourism entities.