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He urged the Society to engage enterprising local youths by outsourcing services to them in the tourism industry, which will bring in professionalism as well as generate employment.
“Manpower is needed for running tourism facility centers and cafeterias. This can be outsourced to professional agencies run by local entrepreneurs,” he suggested.
Khandu welcomed the suggestion put in by the Research Director for including places of religious and historical interests in development of the tourism sector by way of extending facilities. The Research Director had suggested that facility centers and stays can be established in monasteries and viharas as well as historic places like Thembang in West Kameng, which are frequented by visitors.
He also asked the Society to help in compiling courses for polytechnics that would teach and train local youths to exploit and explore the state’s tourism potentials.
Emphasizing on proper publicity of the state’s potential, Khandu advised that brochures, souvenirs and magazines published by the department at the state level should be updated yearly.
The Arunachal Tourism Society has been constituted basically to manage, maintain and operationalise assets created by the Tourism department over the years. It would also undertake promotion and publicity campaigns besides organizing tourism-centric festivals across the state.