I was going through the discussion on exploiting tourism for growth/development etc.
The problem for our country (as Goel saab pointed out couple of times) is that people who matter the most are after government rather than governance. We keep talking about Corporate Social Responsibility instead of reflecting (not even for a second, if not all majority)on Individual Social Responsibility.
There are still people around (may be in minority) who will not compromise on ethics and values while pursuing material pursuits.
Development/growth is required but at what cost. In this regard it's worth recalling the article, based on a survey, published sometime back in India Today on increasing divorces in which it has been pointed out that the main reason being spouses not being able to give quality time to their partners.
Similarly when we talk of tourism and using it to push forward our development process (mention was
Made of pataya) we also need to keep it in view our culture and ethos.
It's not that we don't have solution for the problems confronting us (be it universe as a whole). Brihadaranyakopanishadh says if we are able to
Control our ego, greed, anger etc
Start having concern- be it humam beings, environment etc
And take care of people around including share
All our problems will be solved.
Let's pursue development while trying to preserve our culture, values and ethics etc
DrAJagan Mohan Reddy
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From: Nagarajan Vasudeva Rao <v.nagarajan99@gmail.com>
Date: 26/11/2013 22:53 (GMT+05:30)
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global]
Dear MTCians,
-- In the manufacturing sector, we have "retention policy' for employees. This policy will help in retaining the talented workforce and attract others also. Retention could be by Awards and Recognitions, Promotions to next cadre, Holidaying in Summer resorts, attractive pay packages, Health insurance schemes etc.,
Why India is not retaining the cultural heritage and not attracting the tourists with all its good governance. There is a tourism department with all facilities and amenities and also flooded with Officials for Tourism administration. What is that they do in enticing the tourists and what is their contribution in marketing tourism. Tourists have to come on their own, enquire and engage. As rightly pointed out by Prof. Bholanath there is no safety for tourists especially for foreigners. How tourism will improve?
Are we Indians giving importance to cleanliness, physical and environmental hygiene? Miserably not. The wall corners of Bus stands and Railway Stations, are used as open air latrines. The Health department or the Pollution Control Boards who have to ensure pollution free atmosphere show little interest in enforcing rules and following them up. The Bus Stands, Railway Stations wear an ugly look in almost all towns more so in the State Capitals like Chennai where State of the Art Bus station has been built where you can see papers, plastics,clothes, tea cups, tiffin plates strewn all around. The house keeping staff, who are paid to clean and keep the bus stands clean and tidy , do all jobs except cleaning. These places are used by tourists from other states and countries. Atleast one should be happy that the Aerodromes are kept neat and tidy.
Why the concerned house keeping staff not pay their attention and keep such public places neat and tidy like that of the aerodromes? Main reason why tourists, especially tourists from abroad, avoid coming to India is Unhygienic practices followed by the indians. Another nuisance is Beggars in all tourist centres and temples.. They throng the tourists / Pilgrims/ especially foreigners. They queue up in the platforms, pavements and run their families and creating nuisance consistently.
Such lapses, spoil the improvement of tourism in India. People have to realize their responsibilities and be hygienic and practice good ethics and be friendly and respectful to the foreigners so that tourism industry will grow and can compete with other industries. India is a treasure house of Heritages, antiques, Temples, Monuments, Places of historical importance which will definitely attract more tourists.
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V.NAGARAJAN, B.A., LL.B.,PGDBA, PGDCA,
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:06 PM, prithvishankar <psray61@hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear All,
In India, development in any sector is driven by government, which in turn is again advised by developed country lobby that tries to sell its old technology and refurbished products that it appears advanced to us, under the banner of liberalization and globalization, like nuclear reactors. Only that industry develops as per customer needs where there are modern products that can be bought, possessed and consumed on per piece basis individually by customers, like cars etc!
And that too, in present circumstances of economic crisis, government has been collecting revenues and taxes from different sectors with stringency in order to meet its own expenses, fiscal deficit and funds for development programs, which I am sure everybody is aware how funds are leaking out and not percolating to the desired levels! Government is perhaps, not taken much initiative to improve the competitiveness of that sector from the point of view of quality, productivity and supply chain! Much is on paper, less in action as incentives or encouragement for the industry. As a result, our Indian companies are investing more abroad and setting up factories than in domestic sector.
Although government has opened up infrastructure sector under public private partnerships, much more is desired and speed of development is too slow and that too involves funds embezzlement and bad governance.
Unfortunately, tourism has not received that focus from the successive governments, unless all governments have some common focus on certain sectors irrespective of their political ideologies. Infact the minister and bureaucrats of that ministry, need to be interested and focused to take concerted initiative to develop a plan for tourism! Ministers and bureaucrats are shuffled whimsically and nor do they take an interest; in fact they are also shunted out at the behest of private sector when their vested interest gets hurt by strong and righteous policies! infact tourism should receive the importance as an infrastructure sector . It will also add to the improvement of environment and climate, provided the concerned stakeholders maintain it diligently! Local population and tourists need to be educated strongly and cleanliness is given a priority in terms of maintenance along with other facilities. Infact as rightly pointed out by other participants , we need to revive our cultural heritage! We will rather save dollars and do not have to shop around the world for technology to develop this sector of tourism, which has so much economic and employment potential as also pointed out by another gentleman in this forum. It will help to earn much needed forien exchange.
Similarly , it can be said that Indian industrialists also do not want to invest in any project that has longer period of investment and uncertainty. In fact , very few in private sector have taken any sustained interest to develop our natural wealth like tourism, nor have they taken any initiative to influence the government and bureaucrats to formulate a long term policy initiative for implementation. As educationists, we too should take initiative to include the subject as a part of MBA curriculum! Perhaps this MTC forum may serve as a platform to form and mobilize a kind of strong opinion initiative in that direction!
kind regards,
Dr.P.S.Raychaudhuri
New Delhi
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:47:49 +0530
Subject: Re: [MTC Global]
From: bnath.dutta@gmail.com
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Macau is a very small island, close to Singapore, and 100% depends on tourism. India is blessed with rich culture, heritage and natural beauties but we failed to market our products to outside world because of lack of awareness, government apathy and recent rapes incident ( today reported in Assam) / other social disorders.
On other hand , countries like Singapore creating artificial attractions and drawing the people across the world....
I have addressed many such issues in one of leading books titled ' International Tourism Management' in two years back ( available in Amazon).
Happy Knowledge Sharing.
Kindest Regards.
Prof. Bholanath Dutta
President- MTC Global
president@mtcglobal.org
Cell: +91 96323 18178
rpsingh55 <rpsingh55@hotmail.com> wrote:Dear all.Visited coral islands, Pattaya, Malaysia yesterday and found its beaches really very neat and clean. So orderly planned and developed. Whole society and economy entirely depend on tourism.We in India have best of everything, nice hill stations, large desert, vast sea coast and very pleasant weather at many places most of the time. Still our share of world tourism is virtually negligible.What a great potential for growth of employment and economy in single industrial sector with proper priority and development of tourism related areas.Not impossible? ????RegardsDr R P SinghSent from Samsung Mobile
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