Darjeeling, March 31. - The Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council
Tourism Department has decided to introduce new packages for domestic
and foreign tourists from this season.
According to a department official,
there will be both short and long tourist packages. The department,
he said, with the help of private travel agents, has opened booking
counters in Kolkata and Bombay and entered into a pact with hoteliers
of Sikkim to arrange for a tourists' night halt there. Local sight
seeing will also be arranged for tourists.
The tourists will be received at New Jalpaiguri station by the
departmental staff and as per their programme tour packages to Chittra
on NH-31A, Kalimpong and Sikkim will be organised with night halt
facilities. Enquiry counters have been opened in several places
to assist tourists. There is one counter at Siliguri, one at Kalimpong,
one at Bagdogra and three counters in Darjeeling. The counters will
remain open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The official said short tour packages will be provided from Mirik
and Kalimpong - like Kalimpong to Lola - Lava, Garubathan, Chittra
and Dallo and from Mirik to Manzu, Ranghang and Rohini. In Darjeeling,
tourists will be encouraged to visit the new spots like Gangamaya
Park, Jorpokhari (Sukhia), Shrubbery Nightingale Park and other
places of interest. DGHC tourist vehicle will ply from NJP to Mirik
and to Darjeeling and Kalimpong during the season time.
The tourist scene, which looked bleak during the past two years,
has started looking up as is evident from the rise in hotel bookings.
Many groups of south Indian tourists, it is learnt, have confirmed
their hotel bookings. Darjeeling hoteliers have embarked on plans
to promote tourism and decided to organise Gorkha community based
food festivals from this year.
All the 15 DGHC tourist assistance cells will provide guidance
and cultural programmes will be organised by private parties to
entertain the tourists. After a decade, Mr. Subhash Ghising has
taken interest in the renovation work of the Mirik lake part. The
long-awaited work started from Saturday. Officials said that after
beautification of the park the lake will be renovated.
The more, it is believed, will help Mirik to recover lost ground
in tourism. |
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