Accordingly to recent statistics, tourist inflow at Dabolim airport has in fact dropped by a whopping 15% over 2007-08. The total number of foreign tourists coming in via chartered flights also dropped by a similar margin.
This brings into picture an often debated issue. What impact does this have on the overall Goan economy? On the negative side, a lot of the related industries like hotels, retail and services will be hugely impacted given that a majority of the Goan population is linked in some way or the other in tourism related busines.
However, on the positive side, this is also pushing the Goan youth to innovate and come up with newer business ideas including investments in other areas. Goa has a well educated and talented workforce. We possess skills across a spectrum of areas.
Has Goa's over dependence on tourism effected the Goan's entrepreunal spirit or the other way round?
This brings into picture an often debated issue. What impact does this have on the overall Goan economy? On the negative side, a lot of the related industries like hotels, retail and services will be hugely impacted given that a majority of the Goan population is linked in some way or the other in tourism related busines.
However, on the positive side, this is also pushing the Goan youth to innovate and come up with newer business ideas including investments in other areas. Goa has a well educated and talented workforce. We possess skills across a spectrum of areas.
Has Goa's over dependence on tourism effected the Goan's entrepreunal spirit or the other way round?
2 comments:
Reduced level of tourism is good for goans. In reality only small sections of goans are benefiffing from tourism, except the poticians. Most goans are employed in lower categories of work while the ownwerships and better paid jobs are hel by outsiders. Also tourism has increased the prices of food items, land, housing and travel. Most goans have given up on innovation and their talents have been lying idle. they either do, menial jobs, run bar and tavernas or look for gulf jobs and turn shippies. Traditional trades and occupations are virtually on the verge of extinction. Some are living good lives because they are selling ancestral lands and indulge in false galamour of lives. The future for goans is bleak if they do not wake up and realise the reality before them.
A N Diniz, Goa
duced level of tourism is good for goans. In reality only small sections of goans are benefiffing from tourism, except the poticians. Most goans are employed in lower categories of work while the ownwerships and better paid jobs are hel by outsiders. Also tourism has increased the prices of food items, land, housing and travel. Most goans have given up on innovation and their talents have been lying idle. they either do menial jobs, run bar and tavernas or look for gulf jobs and turn shippies. Traditional trades and occupations are virtually on the verge of extinction. Some are living good lives because they are selling ancestral lands and indulge in false galamourous lives. The future for goans is bleak if they do not wake up and realise the reality before them.
A N Diniz, Goa
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