Goa in urgent need of renovation

There are in fact many states throughout the country that aspire for foreign tourists throughout the year. On the other hand there is Goa, which is anxious for its worsening infrastructure due to the exponential increase of visitors in the recent years. In this respect the state tourism industry is in the need of an abrupt development of the state’s infrastructure or else there may be a break down.    It is to be noted that this tiny state with a population of 1 .4 million receives 2.5 million tourists (approximately) on an annual basis and of this almost 300,000 and 400,000 are foreigners hailing from Europe.

For instance the Dabolim airport, which used to handle half-a-dozen flights a day even a few years ago now is almost saturated with huge numbers of flights including daily, international, charter and naval. But to be very precise the infrastructure of the airport is not sound and is in the need of an urgent restoration. There is a vital requirement of modern parking bays along with taxi bays.

These vital needs have also been advocated by Abdullah Cankaya, the deputy general director of the Moscow-based Pegas Touristik. To his consideration though the airport staff greet the visitors with smiling faces, the condition of the airport has become deplorable and is no longer competent to gratify the rising aspirations of the tourists. Another specimen of this growing inadequacy can be the accumulation of garbage. The whole of the state of Goa, along with the airport, is under the sway of garbage whose USP once was cleanliness. The boom of tourism combined with gradual deterioration of proficiency has brought the state almost on the verge of collapse. 

To get rid of this intolerable reality the Travel & Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) already urged the government to concentrate on the development of several essential aspects of the state. They include public sewerage, electricity, roads and water supply. Apart from this, to them, there should be laxity on the late-night noise ban as it would affect the business and for this it also argued. Lastly, they also raised the subject of administrative strictness, including guests’ identification on the pretext of terrorism.