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BLACK Nhesop Atanchem Fashion
Premiers at Masrah, Hawalli Auditorium, Kuwait on Aug 10, 2007
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The Union ministry is promoting branded home stay or B&B as an alternative
to to budget hotels reports Outlook (6th August 07). This would be an
affordable alternative to budget hotels.
It aims to be economical, homely and give the visitors an Indian experience.
The concept is catching on with NRI's,PIO's, corporates, foriegn tourists
etc.
India now needs 70,000 hotel rooms double that by 2010 to meet the target of
10 million overseas visitors annually.
Goa had taken the first adminitrative initiative and has over 600 registered
B&B's and service apartment clusters.Explains Pamela Masceranhas,deputy
director, Goa's tourism department: "' We started it in 1985,from one room
hutments to upmarket heritage homes. During Oct-March period, theres 60-70
percent occupancy". Of late other states especially Delhi and those of the
South are following suit.
Pascal Pinto
Orchids, H No 251,
Morombi O Grande,Merces,
Goa,INDIA
PS: I wonder whether the shacks rented out by the fisherfolk in
Candolim-Calangute -Baga and where we spent our glorious summer holidays a
forerunner to the Indian B&B?
