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- Sushmita Sen wants biological child, using ‘male’ order, not marriage.Tells press in Goa.
- South Maharashtra beaches no threat to Goa yet
- 2,000 Poles visited Goa: TTAG
| Sushmita Sen wants biological child, using ‘male’ order, not marriage.Tells press in Goa. Posted: 21 May 2010 09:01 AM PDT “I will go for biological baby because the clock is ticking for me,” Sushmita told reporters in Goa on Thursday, May 20, reports IANS. Sushmita’s remarks inevitably triggered questions on her marriage plans. “I said the clock is ticking… I never said anything about marriage,” Sushmita snapped. “Every girl wants her prince charming. I have stopped thinking about it long back but still I want it,” said the actress. Sushmita’s production company Tantra Entertainment has the franchise to select Miss Universe participants from India and the 34-year-old Miss Universe (1994) was in the city for a preparatory workshop for the 2010 Miss Universe pageant. Sushmita Sen has two adopted daughters: Renee, adopted in 2000, and Alisah adopted in 2010. Courtesy:SN |
| South Maharashtra beaches no threat to Goa yet Posted: 21 May 2010 06:33 AM PDT The relatively virgin beaches of southern coastal Maharashtra are no threat to beach tourism in Goa, at least not in the immediate future, a top tourism trade official said Friday. Beaches like Malvan and Tarkarli in south Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district have a long way to go before they can be seen as a threat to Goa’s tourism pie, said Ralph de Souza, president of the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa. “Good tourism does not mean scenic beauty alone. The place also has to have the right atmosphere and infrastructure, which presently south Maharashtra does not have,” de Souza said. “They also do not have any major project (hospitality) in the area. Even in terms of infrastructure, the roads are very small in that area,” de Souza said. South Maharashtra, with its clean, coconut palm-fringed beaches, has been positioning itself as a rival beach destination to Goa. However, de Souza admits that Goa may feel the competitive heat from its neighbour after a few years. “After sometime, when Goa gets saturated and people begin to move out… maybe,” he said. Goa, a major beach tourism destination in the world, attracts nearly 2.4 million tourists annually, nearly 500,000 of them being foreigners. BRIC countries fuel Dell’s growth; posts 52 pc jump in Q1. Courtesy:HT |
| Posted: 20 May 2010 07:15 PM PDT As the tourist season draws to a close, industry professionals claim that there was nothing much to cheer about, save the tapping of a new market – Poland. “We received around 2,000 new guests from Poland,” said outgoing president of the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa Ralph de Sousa at a press conference Thursday evening. The effects of the global recession were felt during this tourism season as the bookings were done at the start of 2009 when most of western Europe was in the midst of the meltdown, he said. The volcanic ash that spread over the skies of Europe also brought an abrupt end to the tourism season, said the TTAG president. De Sousa said that there was a 30% drop in charters from the United Kingdom, which once enjoyed the status of number one tourist market for Goa.
“However, there was an increase in Russian tourists, and we expect a further rise of 25-30% of Russian visitors,” he said. Meanwhile, hotels across the state are continuing adding security features to keep terror at bay, said the TTAG. “Hotels are putting in place systems to check details of guests, luggage scanners and CCTV cameras. However, more importance has been given to staff sensitization through training sessions. We cannot expect the police to be everywhere and this will lift up some of their burden,” de Sousa said. The TTAG also thanked the World Travel and Tourism Council for providing logistical support to Goa’s soon-to-be-commissioned Tourist Security Force (TSF). The TSF has been given a fleet of 15 four-wheelers and seven two-wheelers which are equipped with state-ofart tracking and monitoring devices as well as transmission services. They will be used for the purpose of patrolling the coastal belt by the TSF from the next tourism season onwards. Courtesy:TOI |
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