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TopicGoa Tourism

Topic: Goa Tourism

Gujarat is the new foreign visitor hotspot. Goa, Tamil Nadu see dramatic drop

Maharashtra accounted for 17.69% of foreign tourist arrivals in 2019-24, the highest of all states and union territories. In 2019, the top spot belonged to Tamil Nadu.

How North Goa went from a stop on a hippie trail to a nightclub hub built on big money & lax oversight

North Goa's nightclub culture is facing scrutiny after the ‘Birch by Romeo Lane’ fire killed 25, including 20 kitchen staffers who were suffocated to death in the basement.

‘What about Goanness?’: Goa taxi drivers resist govt proposal to bring in app-based cabs

While local drivers have opposed Pramod Sawant govt's draft guidelines, tourists have often complained about being overcharged by them, taxis not being available at all times & so on.

It’s not idli-sambar, Goa’s real food crisis is tradition losing out to Instagram Reels

Every few months, someone sounds the alarm on Goa’s imperiled identity—sometimes it’s idli-sambar, sometimes gobi manchurian.

Goa tourism needs to reimagine itself. There’s more to it than beaches and booze

For those who wish to go deeper into Goa’s built history, spending an afternoon at Palácio do Deão will get you up to speed on life as a Portuguese noble.

Fewer tourists are visiting India now. What’s worse, our stand is we don’t really care

Over the last decade, we have begun to take the stand that even if foreign travellers do not want to come, we don’t really care. Even Indians are increasingly avoiding our tourist destinations.

Karnataka: IAS Rohini Sindhuri, IPS Roopa Moudgil’s 3-yr public spat to culminate in court face-off

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

On Camera

Free gas to waivers, govt-owned gas firms roll out incentives to push households from LPG to PNG

IGL, MGL & other city gas distributors announce benefits to encourage LPG users to shift to piped natural gas as Centre flags concerns over LPG supply in the wake of Iran conflict.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.