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Green Carpet Initiative to develop 79 tourism destinations

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Press Trust of India Thiruvananthapuram
A two-day 'Green Carpet Initiative' today decided to develop 79 tourist destinations into distinctive tourism friendly centres.

"The 79 tourist destinations selected for the first phase of Green Carpet initiative will be turned into distinctive tourism friendly centres," Tourism Director UV Jose said at the concluding session of the workshop, here.

The workshop, organised to ensure sustainable development and maintenance of 79 select tourist destinations, has designed a blueprint for 111 short and long term projects.

Managers, Deputy Directors, and District Tourism Promotional Council (DTPC) Secretaries from the selected Kerala tourism destinations attended the workshop here.

Prof Raghunandan (IRTC), KITTS Principal, Dr V Vijayakumar, Prof Saroop Roy, and Responsible Tourism State Field Coordinator Roopesh Kumar headed the panel discussions on various topics.
 

Tourism Additional Secretary Saraswathy was among those who spoke.

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First Published: Dec 09 2016 | 8:32 PM IST

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