Gujarat to seek Sri Lanka’s help in setting up resorts
Gujarat will shortly contact Sri Lanka following its offer of
assistance to set up resorts along the state’s 1,600km coastline.
“At the ‘Vibrant Gujarat’ summit in January, Sri Lankan officials had
offered to help us set up resorts on the Saurashtra-Kutch coastline on a
Public Private Partnership (PPP) model,” a senior state tourism
department official said.
However, according to him, two developments delayed any progress: Sri
Lanka’s preoccupation with the offensive against Tamil rebels, and the
Lok Sabha polls in India.
Gujarat’s tourism department officials had reportedly been told at
the summit that Sri Lankan entrepreneurs were best equipped to help the
state to develop resorts on a PPP model given their long experience in
developing such resorts in the island nation.
Following this, Gujarat too had shown an interest in inviting
investment from Sri Lankan entrepreneurs to develop hotels and motels on
the national highway on the Saurashtra coast connecting Jamnagar with
Porbander.
“We are following up on the offers made by companies or individual
entrepreneurs during the summit,” the tourism department official said.
IANS |