{"id":183299,"date":"2022-02-04T00:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T18:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=183299"},"modified":"2022-02-04T00:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T18:54:37","slug":"progs-held-to-mark-national-tourism-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/04\/progs-held-to-mark-national-tourism-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Progs held to mark National Tourism Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BHALUKPONG, 3 Jan:<\/strong> The West Kameng tourism department conducted a series of programmes for the local communities of Tippi and Bhalukpong as part of the National Tourism Day celebration from 30 January to 1 February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programmes were aimed at empowering the local communities and apprising them of alternative livelihood methods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Youths from the two areas participated in an awareness programme on avitourism\/birding and its &#8216;tourism scope&#8217; in Bhalukpong and Tippi. Pakke Tiger Reserve (PTR) RFO Kime Rambia, ornithologist Anurag Vishwakarma and Bhalukpong TIO W Eileen Lowangcha were the resource persons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The participants were also taken to the PTR and to the wildlife sanctuary in Tippi, where they were briefed on bird-watching and were given tips on bird photography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the third day, women, youths and other stakeholders from Tippi and Bhalukpong were made aware of community-based tourism and its scope in Tippi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The TIO made a presentation on rural and community-based tourism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An open discussion between the tourism stakeholders (homestay owners, tour operators) and the participants regarding development of community-based tourism in Tippi and Bhalukpong was also held. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHALUKPONG, 3 Jan: The West Kameng tourism department conducted a series of programmes for the local communities of Tippi and Bhalukpong as part of the National Tourism Day celebration from 30 January to 1 February. The programmes were aimed at empowering the local communities and apprising them of alternative livelihood methods. Youths from the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-183299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}