In an endeavour to promote and attract adventure tourism in form of ‘Bicycle Tourism,’ the Chhattisgarh Tourism Board (CTB) is launching its campaign ‘Tourism on Wheels’.
Under the campaign, Tour-De-Raipur would be organised from January 14 while Tour-De-Chhattisgarh would be held from January 26.
General Manager, CTB, Sanjay Singh in a press conference said the CTB was going to organise the campaign with collaboration with organizations Tour-De Raipur, Bicycle Club of Raipur and We the Working Element, Nagpur.
He said that the move will highlight the tourist destination of the State across the country and also abroad.
Interested participants could contact the Tourism Information Centre, Mahant Ghasidas Museum premises in Raipur for further details, he said. Ashish Patni from the Tour-De-Raipur informed that the journey on bicycle would start on January 14 and the Bicycle riders would have to tour from Marine Drive Raipur to Jungle Safari-Pukhauti Muktangan and the tour would culminate at Hotel Johar Chhattisgarh traversing around 55 kms. It must be written here that if it materialises well, it will be good for the State as a whole.
The Tour-De-Chhattisgarh which is being organised with collaboration of Nagpur based organisation would start from Marine Drive on January 26.
The riders in it would have to travel around 400 kms via Sirpur, Barnavapara, Gagrel, Kondagaon, Chitrakot, Tirathgarh, Kutambsar and would end at Chitrakot.
Organising partner of the event, Ashish, informed that around 100 participants across the nation and also from abroad are expected to participate in the event.
Till now 54 registrations have already been done which include one female rider from Germany, he informed.
Earlier they have experience of organising a similar event in Satpura of Madhya Pradesh with the help of Madhya Pradesh Tourism, he said.
Vice Chairman, CTB, Kedarnath Gupta was also present in the conference who said that the event would encourage youth for pollution free and environment friendly bicycle ride.
Claiming that the ‘Tourism on Wheels’ would catch attraction nationwide he informed that soon bicycles would be provided at CTB resorts to the tourists so that they could travel nearby destinations in it.