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| October 7, 2009 | Sikkim draws record tourists | | Gangtok: Tourist arrivals in Sikkim, konown for its natural beauty and peaceful environment, has recorded a huge increase. Around 2,80,000 tourists visited Sikkim in the first five months of 2009, which is nearly 35 percent more than last year. Some tourists even compare the scenic beauty of the State to some of the cities in
Europe. "We find Sikkim a very beautiful place. It is very neat, clean and lovely....
You can almost compare it with one of the cities in Europe," said Arvind Dasyu,
a tourist from Maharashtra. "Just for natural beauty. The town is very much fresh
and clean and the people are very much cooperative. So we had the intention to
come here," said Prosonjeet Sarkar, a tourist from West Bengal. According to the
local tour operators, Sikkim came under the focus of tourism from 1992. Since
then, tourist arrivals have been increasing at a rapid pace. "Earlier Sikkim was
not in focus but since 1992, Sikkim came under the focus of tourism because of
its natural beauty. Sikkim has green forests, falls, rivers and streams, mountain
peaks which tourists love to see and experience because nowadays people remain
busy in their fast lives. So in order to attain peace, they come here," said Deepak
Kumar Rai, a local tour operator. Sikkim has declared the year 2010 as the Year
of Tourism and lined up as many as 13 festivals to woo the visitors and develop
the tourism sector as its main source of revenue and employment. Fifty eight million
rupees have been injected by the central Government in nineteen projects for infrastructure
development of North Sikkim during 2007-08. The Centre has funded twelve projects
as Centrally Sponsored Schemes from Ministry of Tourism; six projects have been
funded as the Border Area Development Programme (BADP) while the State government,
as per official reports, has funded one project. Nestling in the Himalayas, Sikkim
is the least populous State in India and the second smallest in area after Goa. | |
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