Fort Aguada is getting renovated, and it’s going to cost 22 crores

Fort Aguada Renovation

There’s no doubt that Fort Aguada in Sinquerim is one of Goa’s most popular tourist attractions. The site of numerous movie shoots, (Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, Golmaal, and Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd to name a few) this erstwhile Portuguese structure was constructed as a point of recourse for Portuguese ships to stock up on fresh […]

Founder, Utkarsh Dabhade, answers “how does Goa Miles work?”

Utkarsh Dabhade MD of Goa Miles

In a recent presentation made to the press and other stakeholders, Founder, CEO, and Managing Director of Goa Miles, Utkarsh Dabhade answered the burning question, how does Goa Miles work? dispelling various myths and concerns about the app being a threat to the local taxi business. During the press conference, Dabhade explained with the help […]

Make Goa expensive so that only foreigners visit, says Vijai Sardesai

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Over the last few days, the newspapers have been full of news stories referring to how many tourists hit the beautiful beaches of Goa for the Christmas season. Of course, most of these were unflattering as the kind of tourists that came to Goa were most unpleasant. They arrived by the truckloads and busloads. While […]

Goa set to attack European tourists

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Tourism minister Manohar ‘Babu’ Azgaonkar said that Goa’s marketing strategy will be changed to boost tourist arrivals from traditional European markets. Tourism stakeholders also feel that it’s high time Goa tourism overhaul its marketing techniques to make the destination more competitive. The just-concluded charter tourist season ended on a happy note with a rise in […]

‘HOHO’ and away we go! A lovely way to spend the day

HOHO Bus Goa

Close on the heels of the hop-on-hop-off “Cycle Party”, the government has now launched it’s very own ‘HOHO’ Bus, hop-on-hop-off! A Goa Tourism Development Corporation venture, the ‘HOHO’ Buses come in variants of double decker and high-decker. Either fully closed or open on the upper deck, partially or fully air conditioned. A welcome attraction in the […]

GTDC: Goan youth to be hired for beach cleaning

Nilesh Cabral, Chairman of Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC) has revealed a plan to involve Goan youth in regards to beach cleaning. ” I want to see how the plan works for a year,” Cabral said in a ToI report. Local youth may be hired on contract basis This development is a result of Goa […]

E – commerce to rescue Goa’s tourism sector?

In an effort to make Goa more accessible to tourists digitally, the Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC) has recently launched an e – commerce platform for tourism stake- holders in Goa to display their services. Goa happens to be the first state to launch such a service. A question does arise, how will the venture […]