{"id":68644,"date":"2019-06-04T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=68644"},"modified":"2019-06-04T01:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:40:59","slug":"friends-of-arunachal-campaign-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/06\/04\/friends-of-arunachal-campaign-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Friends of Arunachal&#8217; campaign launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>DIBRUGARH, Jun 3:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh tourism department in collaboration with the Arunachal Pradesh Tour Operators&#8217; Association (APTOA), Nature&#8217;s Beacon, the Assam Archana Sikitchalaya Sahitya Chara and the Association for Conservation launched a campaign themed &#8216;Friends of Arunachal&#8217; here in Assam on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe campaign, which involves various tourism stakeholders from Assam, leaders of national and international civil society organizations, senior professors and doctors of<br \/>\nuniversities and colleges, and officers of Arunachal&#8217;s tourism department, has been launched with the aim of strengthening the bond between all the states of the Northeast and the rest of India.<br \/>\n&#8220;The campaign will give a platform to exchange cultures, share knowledge and ideas and emphasize on health and education sectors, besides giving a boost to the newly-formed rural tourism destinations and homestay movement in Arunachal,&#8221; said Tourism Assistant Director Bengia Manna Sonam.<br \/>\nHighlighting the scope for promoting rural and ecotourism in Arunachal, Sonam urged the participants to help make the state &#8220;the best sustainable tourism destination.&#8221;<br \/>\nAPTOA president John Panye stressed the need for Arunachal and Assam to work closely to better develop the tourism sector in the region.<br \/>\nDibrugarh-based writer and environmentalist, Soumyadeep Datta, spoke about the close relations between Assam and Arunachal.<br \/>\n&#8220;Tourism in Arunachal is incomplete without participation from Assam. We, the civil society, have to gear up and strengthen the bond between the two states,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nAPTOA general secretary Bengia Mrinal and head of Help Tourism, Raj Basu, also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIBRUGARH, Jun 3: The Arunachal Pradesh tourism department in collaboration with the Arunachal Pradesh Tour Operators&#8217; Association (APTOA), Nature&#8217;s Beacon, the Assam Archana Sikitchalaya Sahitya Chara and the Association for Conservation launched a campaign themed &#8216;Friends of Arunachal&#8217; here in Assam on Sunday. The campaign, which involves various tourism stakeholders from Assam, leaders of national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68644","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\/68644","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=68644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}