Team Herald
PANJIM: The State government has formed various committees in view of the upcoming Goa International Travel Mart (GITM) scheduled to be held from October 23 to 25, at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium.
The committees are: Organising Committee, Managing Committee, Accommodation Committee, Programme Committee, Transport Committee, Marketing Committee, GITM 2019 Secretariat and FAM Trip Organisational Committee. Each committee comprises of five members which will function until the event’s conclusion.
The “Business to Business” event aims at bringing together travel companies, hoteliers, eco-tourism, adventure, wildlife, nightlife, event managers, wedding planners, wellness and other leisure enterprises under one roof to showcase the tourism investment potential in the State.
Tourism Secretary Ashok Kumar has said that GITM serves as an ideal platform for stakeholders to engage in dialogue, business opportunities to improve, innovate and initiate.
“When the entire global economy is focused on tourism as a key industry and tourists’ thirst to explore and experience continues to grow, events like GITM serve as an ideal platform for stakeholders to engage in dialogue, business opportunities to improve, innovate and initiate. The first two events held in the years 2011 and 2014 had received good response and this year the event promises to be bigger and better,” he said.
The Tourism Department stated that over 125 international buyers from USA, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Scandinavian, Baltic’s, CIS, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia, Bulgaria, Israel, Jordan, UAE, Middle East, Italy, Czech Republic, Russia, Poland, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Malaysia are expected to fly down to Goa to take part in the event. The event is also highly regarded on the domestic front with over 150 buyers confirming their participation.
