Focus on improving connectivity to tourist centres
CHENNAI: A six-member Asian Development Bank (ADB) team that visited tourist spots in and around Chennai and in Tamil Nadu is preparing a tourism development road map.
Giving details of the all-India study being prepared by the ADB team, its leader of Tourism Development and Planning, Ludwig Rieder, told reporters here on Friday that Tamil Nadu was chosen by the ADB for exploring ways and means to improve environmentally and culturally sustainable and socially inclusive and economically and financially viable tourism initiatives.
Ranking priority circuits
The high-level team drawn from the Technical Assistance Cluster of the ADB would identify key institutional and regulatory issues and constraints, rank priority tourism circuits and destinations, list financing requirements at a broad level and in more detail in sample States and draft an overall project implementation concept.
The six-member ADB team, he said, identified four key constraints — tourism infrastructure and superstructure, private sector and community participation, sustainable tourism framework and institutional and regulatory framework for tourism.
Mr. Rieder said the main focus would be to improve the connectivity with major tourist centres across the country.
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