{"id":102843,"date":"2025-05-15T19:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=102843"},"modified":"2025-05-15T19:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:46:22","slug":"tourism-department-holds-high-level-stakeholder-meeting-to-strategize-on-challenges-and-opportunities-for-goas-tourism-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=102843","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Department holds high-level stakeholder meeting to strategize on Challenges and Opportunities for Goa\u2019s Tourism Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : In a proactive move to reinforce Goa\u2019s position as a premier tourism destination, the Department of Tourism, Government of Goa, convened a high-level stakeholder meeting today at Paryatan Bhavan, Panjim. The meeting was chaired by Hon\u2019ble Minister for Tourism, Rohan Khaunte, and attended by key officials including\u00a0 Kedar Naik, Director of Tourism; Kuldeep Arolkar, Managing Director of GTDC; Shawn Mendes, OSD to the Hon\u2019ble Minister; and leading members of the tourism industry and Goa Tourism Board.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his opening remarks, Hon\u2019ble Minister Rohan Khaunte emphasized the importance of timely and structured stakeholder engagements, particularly in light of national and regional developments. Referring to the recent Pahalgam incident in Kashmir, he noted, \u201cAs the Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister ensured a swift and resolute response through Operation Sindoor, it was equally important for us, as a tourism-driven state, to evaluate the ripple effects on travel sentiment. Today\u2019s meeting was not only about addressing current concerns, but also about building long-term resilience. We are moving from mere policy reviews to dynamic recalibrations that are responsive to ground realities. Goa\u2019s strength lies in its people\u2014every Goan is a stakeholder, an influencer, and a tourism ambassador.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Director of Tourism, Kedar Naik, underlined the Department\u2019s commitment to listening, learning, and enabling. \u201cWe are here to ensure that the voice of every stakeholder is heard. From formal hotels to homestays, from digital platforms to community operators\u2014Goa Tourism belongs to all of them. The goal is to ensure that our policies remain inclusive, adaptive, and implementation-ready.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Department also shared encouraging data, with Goa witnessing a 10.5% year-on-year growth in tourist arrivals for the first quarter of 2025, rising from 25,80,155 in Q1 2024 to 28,51,554 in Q1 2025. While the month of April saw a marginal dip, the overall sentiment remains strong, and targeted strategies are being deployed to address seasonal and market-specific variations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The full-day series of sectoral and plenary sessions reflected the Government\u2019s emphasis on collaborative governance. From understanding how the previous season unfolded, to jointly preparing for emerging challenges\u2014whether geopolitical, geoeconomic, or geostrategic\u2014the consultations reaffirmed Goa Tourism\u2019s commitment to collective foresight and resilience-building.<\/span><\/p>\n

The concerns raised during today\u2019s discussions, along with those from previous meetings, have been consolidated. The Hon\u2019ble Chief Minister will soon be chairing an interdepartmental meeting to drive a more coordinated response and lasting resolutions to the challenges at hand.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar : In a proactive move to reinforce Goa\u2019s position as a premier tourism destination, the Department of Tourism, Government of Goa, convened a high-level stakeholder meeting today at Paryatan Bhavan, Panjim. The meeting was chaired by Hon\u2019ble Minister for Tourism, Rohan Khaunte, and attended by key officials including\u00a0 Kedar Naik, Director of Tourism; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":102844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-102843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6","category-155","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102845,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102843\/revisions\/102845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}