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After the IFFI festivals in Cannes, The Cannes an unknown name became an International Tourist place. If one compares Cannes to Goa, the major difference can be that Goa is already a famous tourist place and IFFI can take it to the heights of Tourism Industry, but Is Goa ready for it? The worst thing that Goa has is the worst political scenario. Who knows may be we are second to Bihar? Will our political scenario ever change? Will we have any politician who is thinking of the future of Goa, and not the future of themselves? One look at Goa and all that we have read on Goanet, tells us of problems affecting Goa the main being Garbage problem. There are other problems like lack of honesty among our tourist taxis. Our public transport sucks, and one has to see our bus stands which have become open air toilets for men. If Goa needs to be an International venue for IFFI and maybe in future for other International activities, all these should change. People who come should feel like they are in a very beautiful place, which Goa is. There should be more theatres, as our place Mapuca lacks in a good theatre. I meet many people who give good opinion of Goa, with its friendly people, and that’s what Goa is. A very friendly place. As Cip has said, Goa is benefiting from certain upgradation of its infrastructure, only hope it’s a long lasting upgradation, and not a yearly one, like the one done during its first IFFI festival and no inquiry on it by the new government. Cheers to Goa. Jerry Fernandes Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:15:27 -0000 From: "Cip Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] Would you say that IFFI is good for Goa, or that Goa is good for IFFI? To: "Goanet" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Would you say that IFFI is good for Goa, or that Goa is good for IFFI? The name Goa itself, brings a lot of interest among foreign delegations. Therefore the Film festival benefits from an association with Goa. (And Goa is being publicized as an international venue.) Film appreciation is growing in Goa. Over a period of time this festival will pay for itself. There are definite long-term benefits for Goa. Goa's profile improves from being a backpacker destination to bringing in more up-market tourists. According to the Travel and Tour industry there is not much immediate benefit coming in because we are full right now. But what we are not looking at is the enormous amount of publicity. Goa is benefiting from IFFI in a certain amount of upgradation of infrastructure. That is why so many chief ministers have been vying for events like this and a number of states were vying for the IFFI too.
