Tourism Ministry planning to train taxi, auto drivers for tourist friendly behavior
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New Delhi, March 30: Tourism becomes more experienced when it has fun along with proper information! In a step to make it more fun along with learning, taxi and auto drivers will be trained under ‘Tourist Felicitation Guide’ which will impart code of practice for taxi operators and also keep tourists inform.
Delivering inaugural address at a two-day conference on ‘Safer Road Transpiration to promote National Tourism’ Yesterday, he said that the taxi drivers and Auto drivers need to be trained to be tourist friendly. They also need to be more regulated.
He stressed on the need of developing better and safer roads in the country to attract more global tourists.
"Better and safer roads in the country can help double foreign tourists in India in next three years. About Ten million international tourists visited India during the year 2017. Straightening Infrastructure and improving connectivity will bring more confidence among tourists to come to India".
He opined that apart from improving road infrastructure, we need to be more tourist friendly and hospitality has to be in our DNA as it is in tourist destination like Thailand.
Over 100 road safety experts, professionals, government organisation’s and agencies active in road transport and tourism, transport officers from various states and UN official’s are taking part in the two- day conference.
The conference is being organised by Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE) in Association with Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH) and Union Ministry of Tourism and culture along with Goodyear’s CSR initiative ‘Safer Roads-Safer You’.