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ITANAGAR, 1 Mar:<\/strong> Representatives of the Arunachal Pradesh tourism department participated in the first Global Responsible Tourism Summit, organised by Kerala Tourism at Kumarakom, Kerala, from 25-28 February.<\/p>\n The mission of the event was to “encourage the adoption of responsible tourism [RT] principles and practices by tourism trade and other stakeholders,” according to a release.<\/p>\n During the summit, Arunachal’s Tourism Deputy Director Bengia Manna Sonam made a presentation on her department’s initiatives for promotion of community-based tourism and responsible tourism “as a tool to empower rural communities.”<\/p>\n She also highlighted the initiative of documenting the intangible cultural heritage of the state.<\/p>\n \u00a0Sonam informed that Chullyu, a small village in Lower Subansiri district, “has been adopted under the RT initiative for initiating community-level activities and developing strong tourism-community links to raise the standard of living and empower the marginalised.”<\/p>\n During the inaugural session, a book on the intangible cultural heritage of Arunachal was handed over to the co-chair of the event, Dr Harold Godwin from the United Kingdom, the founder of the Responsible Tourism Movement.<\/p>\n Prominent speakers like Dr Harold Goodwin, Susan Fergusan, Dr V Venu,\u00a0 Poulima Pal, Glyan O’Leary, Raj Basu,\u00a0 Richard Hearn, and Charmarie Maelge spoke on globally responsible and sustainable tourism practices; the Indian practices of sustainable tourism; the Kerala model of responsible tourism practices; the state governments’ role in using tourism as a tool for local development, etc.<\/p>\n The speakers and delegates also visited a model gram panchayat in Vaikom headquarters of Kottayam district. The panchayat has adopted RT for community empowerment and economic development.<\/p>\n The Arunachal team also included a tour operator, a homestay operator, and TIO Bishal Aran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 1 Mar: Representatives of the Arunachal Pradesh tourism department participated in the first Global Responsible Tourism Summit, organised by Kerala Tourism at Kumarakom, Kerala, from 25-28 February. The mission of the event was to “encourage the adoption of responsible tourism [RT] principles and practices by tourism trade and other stakeholders,” according to a release. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212056","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=212056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}