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Kalachakra: plan to launch special campaign

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Bid to attract tourists from foreign countires

Publicity to be taken up in local languages

Efforts on to develop a tourism circuit

VIJAYAWADA : Union Minister of State for Tourism Renuka Chowdary on Saturday said that a special campaign would be launched to attract tourists from several foreign countries to the Kalachakra event at Amaravathi in Guntur district. She said that publicity in local languages would be taken up in Korea, Japan and Cambodia.

Speaking to reporters here, Ms. Chowdary said that efforts were on to promote high-end tourism by developing a tourism circuit connecting Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Orissa.

She said that the three southern States had full potential in view of their historical significance.

Ms. Chowdary said that the new circuit would be developed on the lines of the one doing well in the Delhi-Agra-Jaipur circuit.

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