National Tourism Day – आवारा मुसाफिर

National Tourism Day: Urge to adopt wildlife-friendly tourism

January 25, 2023981 Views

On the occasion of National Tourism Day, World Animal Protection in India has urged travel companies and individuals to adapt to responsible travel, free of animal cruelty and suffering. Travel companies worldwide play a crucial role in changing the demand and supply for captive wildlife experiences. While travel companies have committed towards sustainable choices for tourist experiences - that considers carbon emissions, food waste and energy; there has been no concrete commitment or plans to include animal exploitation considerations or review captive wildlife offers. In a recent report by World Animal Protection, 84% of people were interviewed in the 2022 global poll who believed that tour operators should not sell activities that cause wild animal suffering. 79% of people p...

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Kerala Tourism has weathered challenges, would focus on touching lives

P A Mohamed Riyas

January 25, 20221064 Views

In the words of Ibn Battuta, travelling leaves you speechless and then turns you into a storyteller. His wisdom teaches us that it is travelling that keeps our innate desires alive, waking up a world of words and images within us. It's when we traverse the boundaries of our hometowns, our states and our country, that we touch the lives of people we have never met. We then realise how small the world was for us before. Mankind's wanderlust that began many centuries ago was perhaps triggered by this realisation. Today, as we celebrate the National Tourism Day in the midst of the pandemic's third wave, it's time to reflect on how our ways of travel has changed. Tourists now travel not for leisure alone and are keen to explore the history, culture and the food diversity of places they ...