-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Wishing all Goanetters | | a Prosperous | | and | | Happy New Year - 2006 | | Goanet - http://www.goanet.org | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's HERALD had this op-ed paghe articel by VM de Malar titled " These numbers dont lie". It shared the information that Panjim's Marriott raked in a cool Rs 32,000 average per room on Dec 31. In fact the hotel has reportedly been on a roll since 2004. He then mentions the stellar achievement of Goa being ranked "among the trendiest detinations" by Pauline Frommer's Travel Guide 2006. He observes that its "moneyed, mainstream readership never had Goa on their radar before". Then the bombshell: " Frommer is talking about facets of Goa that most of [us] dont know very well, which exist behind an unseen barrier that separates locals from the private hideaways of the restless global elite." .... In short Goa has these micro-mini world class Infosys campuses (i.e. 5 star hotels) which are in a class of their own even in "planet Goa". Can Goa scale these standards of living up, over time, at low cost, even minutely but perceptibly throughout the rest of the state? That is the challenge.
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