Same may be applied to airport taxis
TEAM HERALD
teamherald@herald-goa.com
PANJIM: The Tourism Ministry, through the Goa Tourism Development Corporation, has decided to regulate water sports along Goa’s beach belt, through a single-window system for water sports activities from the forthcoming tourism season.
Earlier this month, bids had been invited from interested agencies for setting the single-window system on beaches demarcated for water sports activities.
“This will help control water sports activities and operators and ensure smooth conduct of the adventure activities through a queue system,” a tourism ministry official said.
While the proposal for regulating water sports was mooted in 2013 following High Court directives, the ministry had been assessing the operations and working out modalities for a foolproof single-window system.
According to officials, the on-going season has seen smooth conduct of water sports activities across the State. However violations were reported in Colva and a few other locations.
“All this will be tightened through the systematic queue system,” the official said adding that the tourism department has also drawn up uniform tariffs for water sports activities. This would also come into effect through the single-window system in the next season. Along with bids for the single-window system for water sports, the GTDC has also invited bids for a single-window taxi counter at the airport to ensure smooth operations at Dabolim and to ease tensions between rival factions of tourist taxi operators.
