INDIA TO PROMOTE`VILLAGE TOURISM'

Please.......
With such revolution Villages will definitely benefit as more attention will be given to them... more employment will be available and recession from villages and overpopulation in cities will be controlled but Indian villages do not necessarily offer the TRUE Indian culture and traditions.

We have failed to save our culture. It is spoiled with westernized habits and fragile traditional fundamentals. We could not even protect our historic landmarks & pracious entities that presented our rich history and culture.

If we implement this type of tourism. we may promote Indian culture in those "Few", "good" villages with all necessary facilities. Some villages will benefit and get rich but rest will be overlooked and remain under developed. Rich and poor ratio would will further broaden.

Half of the remote villages in India are not even acquainted with primary facilities like water, electricity or education yet. What kind of culture are we going to offer to the tourists there in such villages.


Several aspects like illiteracy , dacoits (yes they still exist in several northern plates), communism, malnutrition (Several villages in Andhra, Maharashtra, Orissa) or terrorism (Kashmir, Punjab or in north-east states of Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim) are still to be solved for the complete safety and security of the "FUTURE" tourists.

Travel tourism is implantable when one has huge Infrastructure to go. Many main cities in India are still not connected by AIR. How do we expect the tourists to travel a big country like India... by Trains? managed by the GREAT minister Laloo Prasad Yaadav?

What about other modes like water. Although half of the overall boundary of India is coastal line but not even 10% of the 1 billion population travel through water.... And those who travel still use the stone age means.

Only remedy on this is to explore, Gather, collect, organize and present our culture & traditions. Not only in cities or villages but in small cities, in metros, in remote villages & everywhere possible like on roads, in hotels, in schools.... basically in our day to day life.

This will bring up the tourism revolution similar to that happened in China. They have museums, palaces, arts, music, books, multimedia and all those means with which they present them as a culture & possibly everywhere, all time. When you travel there, you are surrounded always by the well organized display of their culture and roots.

That way it should be a cultural tourism than a Village tourism.

Re: Please.......

yes.

on the contrary we have suceeded to save our culture (despite being plundered by islamics, looted hollow by the english and culturally attacked frontally by missionaries aka jesus-jehadis) perhaps better than any other people in the world. most traditions that one can see in everyday life in india go back 2000+ years easily, often twice as far back. meanwhile iran, greece, egypt etc of today are nothing like they used to be, culturally speaking.
yes we could not even protect our historical landmarks - they have been replaced by mosques and (only in portueguese conttrolled Goa) by churches. all we could save are the intangibles - values, literature, music - those that cant be physically destroyed.




yes. but thats the way it is. first a few villages will prosper. then some more. and then yet more. ultimately there will be few that'll be left behind.

but the real tragedy is that we need tourism to bail out the villages !!

if we didnt have a group of lobotomised socialist freaks from the nehru family (and larger congress) running the show, we would have been streets ahead of china by now and villages would not be anywhere as backward.

yes. i just told you why.
we made "Mir"s (mir = russian word for village) out of your villages, if you knwo what i mean.

getting reduced from a country that had 25% of the world's wealth from the big bang till 1800 to a counry with 2% of the world's wealth in 1900 and ever further by the end of ww2, thanks to the deliberate deindustrialization caused by the english, did not help either.



kashmir is nehru's mess.
as is communism.
sikkim is very peaceful. i was there 3 months back.

btw india was the 4th most preferred tourist destination in the world, in 2005 season according to recently published reports.


you wouldnt believe how popular indian railways are with foreign tourists. besides we have the 2nd biggest network of highways in the world after usa. not to mention one of the fastest growing aviation sectors (20%+ growth rates per year.. that is, doubling every 4.5 years)

yes we need more infrastructure (and we will have it too - its to huge a business oppurtunity for companies not to come in) . but its not like we dont have any.


yes. if the congress govt didnt sleep walk for 40 years we would have had a river linking system a.la. germany's a long time back.

good that Bajpayee brought it out in the open again.
it saves a lot of fuel too - to have goods transported by water instead of truck.

foreign tourists do that. i know from multiple personal experiances that many foreigners know india like the back of their hands and can beat you and i hollow about the places and sights to see.



china has a hyper active govt applying systematic streamlined effort.

meanwhile we have defeatist halfwitted socialist uneducated elected (china selects their ministers - so all know their job) jerks for ministers. except foreign ministry and finance, none of our cabinets are good. those two invariably select qualified men - are are thus amongst the best in the world.

for cultural tourism, the whole india is to be sampled. Varanasi being the piece-de-resistance. varanasi cant be explained in words. surreal & electric come close though.

this is from my forum - about village tourism -


TREEHOUSE TOURISM -

http://www.ashextourism.com/treehouses/index.html

"surroundings of bamboo, banana, coffee and orchid plants, with butterflies, cicadas and plenty of birds"


AND farm house tourism !!!
http://www.ashextourism.com/village/haryana/index.html


the latter includes the following activities (the whole piece of info comes from an article in the magazine India Today - i am quoting from the article now)

"milk a cow, feed buffalows, board a tractor, ride a donkey or plant vegetables"

also you have the chance to "stay in a mud hut, attend a "panchayat" aka village council meeting"

And "then there is nightlife - puppet shows, open-air folk theatre and song and dance."


so there you have it - you can get your basic course in Farming in India 101 in any of these "farm-institutes".