Growth rate of tourism on a decline
09 February 1997 23:22 ISTGoa may be hit badly with a recession in the tourism sector, the state's second-largest foreign exchange earner, as the number of foreign tourists is declining at a fast rate.Admitting the fact, the local Congress ... READ
Goa Govt surrenders, drops plans for offshore casinos
07 February 1997 23:23 ISTAfter a nationwide controversy over it for six months, the Congress government in Goa itself has opted out from its own proposal of setting up India's first offshore casino on the Goan coast. Rather than ... READ
CRZ can bring back Goa's green beaches
23 January 1997 23:23 ISTThe Coastal Regulation Zone notification issued by the central environment ministry may severely hit Goa's much publicised beach tourism as hundreds of hotels, resorts and guest houses found to have come up in the coastal ... READ
Is Goa's tourism growing the healthy way ?
09 January 1997 23:24 ISTEnsconced on the slopes of the Western ghats, Goa is called a paradise on the western coast of the country. But more than the Sahyadri ranges, extensive paddy fields and fine network of navigable waterways, ... READ
Ancestral Goa : Pride of Today
08 January 1997 23:25 ISTAncestral Goa is a sole creation of Mahendra Alvares, an artist running an advertising agency, from a picturesque Loutolim village. While the village, hardly 8 kms from Margao, is slowly getting "converted" into a modern ... READ
Asia's first City of Old Goa in shambles
08 January 1997 23:24 ISTOld Goa, the first city in Asia built by mediaeval Europeans in the 16th century, is in shambles today. The demand from historians, preservationists and archaeologists to recreate the flavour of 16th century has been ... READ
Commercial farmers cross swords with mining industry
07 January 1997 10:48 ISTCommercial farmers and powerful mine owners in Goa are on loggerheads for the first time in Goa's history as the cultivated land of over 30,000 trees has been leased out for mining purpose in the ... READ
Anti-casino front plans state-wide stir
27 December 1996 23:26 ISTThe anti-casino war is heating up in Goa with all the political parties, joining hands with the local NGOs, planning a protest rally on December 6, when Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda would visit ... READ
Goa plans unique oceanarium at Miramar
20 December 1996 23:26 ISTGoa will be the first state in India to have one of the world's largest oceanarium by 1998. It would be built, owned, operated and managed (BOOM) by an Australian firm - Studio C, through ... READ
Japanese aid sought for tourism infrastructure
15 December 1996 23:27 ISTSeeking financial assistance from Japan, the tourist state of Goa is planning to improve its infrastructure for sustainable tourism development, with a plan to implement it during the ninth five year plan, if the proposal ... READ
