{"id":106904,"date":"2025-10-26T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=106904"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:45:57","slug":"the-department-of-tourism-takes-stern-action-against-illegal-water-sports-activities-and-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=106904","title":{"rendered":"The Department of Tourism takes stern action against illegal water sports activities and operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Goa Khabar: The Department of Tourism, Government of Goa, has issued a Show Cause Notice to a water sports operator for illegally operating a boat in a non-demarcated zone near Aguada Fort. The notice was issued following a report from the Tourist Police Unit which identified that the boat bearing registration number PNJ-749 had drifted into the rocky sea area off Aguada Fort, in violation of prescribed safety and regulatory norms.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The operator was found to be conducting activities in contravention of the Policy for Registration of Water Sports Operators and Rule 3 of the Goa Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) (Boat Rides\/Parasailing\/Watersports Activities) Rules, 2005. The area in question is not demarcated for water sports activities, making such operations both unsafe and unauthorized.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-106836\" src=\"https:\/\/goakhabar-com.preview.jikut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/24.10.25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Department has directed the concerned operator to appear before the Prescribed Authority on November 4, 2025, to explain the violation and submit a formal response. Failure to do so will result in the matter being decided ex-parte and may lead to strict action under the Goa Registration of Tourist Trade Act, 1982.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Department of Tourism continues to work closely with the Tourist Police, coastal authorities, and local stakeholders to monitor and curb unauthorized tourism-related activities. This enforcement drive is part of the Department\u2019s ongoing efforts to maintain safety, quality, and accountability within Goa\u2019s tourism ecosystem.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar: The Department of Tourism, Government of Goa, has issued a Show Cause Notice to a water sports operator for illegally operating a boat in a non-demarcated zone near Aguada Fort. The notice was issued following a report from the Tourist Police Unit which identified that the boat bearing registration number PNJ-749 had drifted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":106905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-106904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106904","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=106904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106906,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106904\/revisions\/106906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}