Kashmir plans luxury hotels for high-spending tourists

The Jammu and Kashmir government has worked out a proposal to have five-star hotels in Gulmarg, Pahalgam and Srinagar to cater to the needs of high spending tourists.Currently, the valley has only one hotel of five-star category, Grand Palace, at the eastern bank of Dal Lake in Srinagar. But it alone hardly meets the accommodation [...]

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Rwanda introduces ‘gorilla tax’

Rwandan companies using the country’s famous mountain gorillas’ image for marketing purposes will have to pay a tax aimed at financing the endangered species protection, officials announced Monday.”We are launching this campaign to generate income earmarked for the species’ protection,” said Fidele Ruzigandekwe, in charge of conservation at the Rwandan Office of Tourism and National [...]

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Tourists not safe in incredible India

(eTN) – Rising incidents of crimes against foreign tourists has pushed the Tourism Ministry to send a communication to all states asking them to speed up the process of creating a special tourist police force.
The urgency was highlighted by an incident in Mumbai earlier this week where a Latvian national was raped by a driver [...]

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