{"id":109124,"date":"2026-01-17T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=109124"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:08:10","slug":"goa-cant-afford-to-become-a-global-joke-lop-alemao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=109124","title":{"rendered":"Goa can\u2019t afford to become a global joke : LoP Alemao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Goa Khabar : Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao on Friday raised issue of degradation of tourism in Goa with events like Kamastura Christmas to Neo Tantra secret parties to be held in Arambol on 18th and 19th January 2026. He said that tourism department need to work along with Home and Cyber Cell to address issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He lamented that events are repeatedly marketed with spiritual, sacred and wellness labels, which are being used as covers for activities that clearly cross the line, damaging Goa\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Alemao said that spiritual tourism is being misused. \u201cGoa Tourism officially promotes yoga, wellness, retreats, and spiritual tourism. But what is happening on the ground is the exploitation of these labels for events that have nothing to do with spirituality, it is insult to local sensibilities,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoa is getting a bad name globally. Goa can\u2019t afford to become a global joke, or a headline for sensationalism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Goa needs to move away from shock-value tourism and protect its cultural and social fabric.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTourism should bring respect and prosperity to Goa, not embarrassment. If we don\u2019t draw the line now, others will draw it for us, and Goa will lose control of its own image,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goa Khabar : Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao on Friday raised issue of degradation of tourism in Goa with events like Kamastura Christmas to Neo Tantra secret parties to be held in Arambol on 18th and 19th January 2026. He said that tourism department need to work along with Home and Cyber Cell to address [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":109125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,155],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-109124","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\/109124","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=109124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109126,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109124\/revisions\/109126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}