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--- On Sun, 5/12/10, Goanet News Service <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Goanet News Service <[email protected]> > Subject: [Goanet] 'Filthy, expensive Goa no longer attracts German tourists' > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, 5 December, 2010, 8:51 AM > 'Filthy, expensive Goa no longer > attracts German tourists' > 4 DEC, 2010, 06.51PM IST,IANS > > PANAJI: Goa is no longer a favoured tourist destination for > Germans because it is "expensive and dirty", the Indo-German > Friendship Society Goa (IGFSG) said on Saturday. > > Speaking to reporters here at a press conference called to > announce a weeklong celebration to mark the arrival of the > first German hippies to Goa sixty years ago, IGFSG president > Aurobindo Xavier said Goa's inability to tackle the garbage > disposal issue had affected Goa-bound tourist traffic from > Germany . > > "A lot of the feedback that the society gets is that > Germans no longer want to come here because Goa cannot solve > its garbage problem," said Xavier, who teaches at a > university in Munich. > > Garbage and other waste is disposed in the open in Goa, > which has no garbage processing plant. Strewn garbage and > heaps of litter is an ugly, but common site along the > state's roads and near sites of tourist interest. > > "A lot of German tourists, who have come to Goa in the > past, say that it is now time to bid Goa goodbye," he > added. > > The earliest wave of tourism in Goa, which evolved with the > coming of the hippies in the 1960s, contained a majority of > German tourists who in the 1970s were attracted by the > pristine beauty of its beaches. British tourists got the > Goa-bug in the early eighties and after a couple of decades, > Russians outrank every other nationality when it comes to > foreign tourist numbers here. > > The number of German tourists over the years have witnessed > a steady decline, according to Xavier. "The garbage > situation and the increase in the number of Russian tourists > has led to the decline of German tourists here. Also, other > beach destinations like Thailand are much cheaper than Goa," > he said. > > Goa in 2005 received nearly 15,000 German tourists, but the > number has shrunk considerably over the last five years, > according to Xavier. > > Goa received 2.4 million tourists annually, out of which > nearly half a million are foreigners. > > > http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/services/travel/Filthy-expensive-Goa-no-longer-attracts-German-tourists/articleshow/7043192.cms >
