ICCC to lead tourism delegation to Arunachal Pradesh

Satish Thakkar with Hon. Nabam Tuki, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Photo by Bashir Nasir

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Satish Thakkar with Hon. Nabam Tuki, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Photo by Bashir NasirChief Minister of India’s northeastern state Arunachal Pradesh Hon. Nabam Tuki and his team had a roundtable discussion on promoting tourism. The meeting was held at Skylink Inc in Toronto. Surjit Babra, Chairman & CEO, Skylink group, and other travel and tourism industry representatives participated in the roundtable.
 
“Arunachal Pradesh is one of the most exotic tourist destinations in India,” Chief Minister Tuki said during the discussion and invited Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) to lead a delegation to Arunachal Pradesh.
 
Satish Thakkar, President, ICCC, said the Chamber would help the Indian state promote its tourism sector in Canada. “Many of the Chamber’s members who are small and medium business owners are active in the tour-promotion sector, and would definitely be interested in Arunachal Pradesh.”
 
The team from Arunachal Pradesh, which was accompanied by Prit Paul and Pradeep Kumar of the Consulate General of India in Toronto, made a presentation on the state’s tourism potential. Tucked away in the north eastern tip of India, the state is a veritable treasure house of nature. It has picturesque hills and vales encircled on three sides by Bhutan, China, and Myanmar. It has a salubrious climate and simple and hospitable people.
 
Tourists have five distinct fields of interest to choose from – culture, adventure, nature, heritage and art and craft. The state has innumerable colorful festivals that reflect the ancient faith of several tribes who have been harmoniously living in the cradle of nature since time immemorial; it also has several places of worship and pilgrimage such as Parasuram Kund, and the 400-year-old Buddhist Monastery at Tawang. The state also has angling, boating, rafting, trekking options, wildlife sanctuaries and national parks.
 
A part of the eastern Himalaya range and situated in the north eastern tip of India bounded by Myanmar on its east, Bhutan on the west, and China on the north and north east, Arunachal Pradesh is the largest state in the north east India. The state covers an area of 83,743 sq.km with evergreen forests covering more than 82 percent of the state, and receives and average rainfall of above 3000 mm per year and climate variation from the sub – tropical in the south to Alpine in the north. Twenty-six major tribes and a number of sub-tribes inhabit it, and it has the thinnest population density with only 13 persons per sq. km. It is home to more than 500 varieties of orchids.

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