Gearing as much as meet the challenges thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic, Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board is now concentrating on selling locations that match into the body of experiential actions. “We’re into the promotion of homestays, village stays, and farm stays as a secure and culturally wealthy keep choice for company to expertise the wealthy rural tradition, meals, and traditions of the state,” stated Yuvraj Padole, Deputy Director (Occasions & Advertising and marketing), Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board.
Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board (MPTB) has left no stones unturned up to now two years (2019 to 2021) to make tourism extra resilient within the state, stated Padole. “MPTB has been engaged on shaping the tourism sector by not solely offering important providers to vacationers but additionally introducing varied actions within the state,” he stated. With temple and wildlife circuits of the state nicely entrenched in individuals’s minds, and likewise to forestall overcrowding of fashionable locations, they’re concentrating on exercise based mostly programmes, resembling river rafting, mountaineering, jungle safari, heritage and meals walks, heritage runs, biking journeys, and so on. Not solely tradition based mostly walks however heritage walks, heritage runs, textile trails, meals trails, nature trails, pictures excursions, cycle excursions, bike excursions and plenty of such actions are being held often in varied tourism locations like Maheshwar, Mandu, Khajuraho, Orchha, Pench, Pachmarhi, Bhopal, Indore, and so on.
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MPTB’s journey division has launched actions such because the cycling-based ‘Buffer Mein Safar’ marketing campaign within the Kanha area, off-road luxurious automotive rally at Patalpani and Kalakund in Indore area, and ‘biking tour of Mowgli Land’ at Pench Tiger Reserve.
In collaboration with non-public firms, 50 tenting websites have been launched to swimsuit the selection of varied sorts of travellers. Now guests can go ‘tree tenting’ and ‘gypsy tenting’ within the Satpura Nationwide Park. In these camps, company can get pleasure from bonfires, expertise stargazing, bonfire, and nightfall drive, swimming, riverside jungle path with hen watching and tribal delicacies with barbeque, with due care to not disturb the ecology of the place.
As standard, this 12 months too Jal Mahotsav (a two-month lengthy pageant held at Hanuwantiya, about 150km from Indore by highway) will function an ideal platform to expertise the life, tradition, vibrant customs and wealthy traditions of Madhya Pradesh by native artwork, craft, people music, dance and cuisines, stated Padole. There might be a plethora of adventurous actions, together with sizzling air ballooning, biking, cruise boating, water parasailing, para motoring, island in a single day tenting, star gazing, hen watching, and so on.
Madhya Pradesh Tourism is thought to host a number of fashionable cultural festivals, such because the Khajuraho Dance Competition. However there are a number of lesser identified festivals which are not any much less fascinating. The Nimar Utsav is an annual three-day occasion held at Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh round Kartik Purnima (November). The festivities comprise music, dance, drama, and actions resembling boating and canoeing. It’s organized and celebrated on the banks of the holy river Narmada. One of many main points of interest of this pageant is the Handloom Stroll organised by the tourism division. Within the handloom stroll, vacationers expertise the weaver’s village with the assistance of native guides. This will increase the earnings of the native weavers in addition to offers fascinating info to vacationers in regards to the artwork of weaving. Extra such walks might be launched somewhere else sooner or later, Padole stated.
With extra girls eager to journey in women-only teams or solo, MPTB is eager to create a women-friendly atmosphere on the tourism locations, with the assistance of native communities. They’ve applied the venture ‘secure tourism locations for girls in Madhya Pradesh’. Below this venture, coaching and capability constructing for the involved stakeholders, creation of consciousness in regards to the security of girls, a security audit of vacationer locations, presence of extra working girls at vacationer locations, making certain beneficial atmosphere for girls’s talent improvement and capability constructing of girls, and so on. are being applied. Stated Padole, the primary goal of this venture is to result in coordination amongst stakeholders for growing women-friendly public infrastructure, neighborhood participation and consciousness of girls’s security and constructing community-based establishments. To make vacationer locations women-friendly, the state tourism physique can be maximizing girls’s participation by coaching in e-rickshaw or taxi driving, scout chief, metropolis explorer, location supervisor, safety guard, cook dinner, and so on.
Individually, Bhopal, the capital metropolis of Madhya Pradesh, might be internet hosting the WTM (World Journey Market) Accountable Tourism India Awards this 12 months on September 7. An Worldwide Seminar on Accountable Tourism might be organized by the ‘Worldwide Middle for Accountable Tourism, UK (ICRT) in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Board & ADTOI-MP Chapter (Affiliation of Home Tour Operators of India).