{"id":222727,"date":"2023-01-16T21:14:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=222727"},"modified":"2023-02-20T19:12:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:42:46","slug":"mv-ganga-vilas-a-welcome-push-for-riverine-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mv-ganga-vilas-a-welcome-push-for-riverine-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"MV Ganga Vilas: A welcome push for riverine tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cMV Ganga Vilas: A welcome push for riverine tourism\u201d <\/strong>published in<strong> The Indian Express <\/strong>on <strong>16th January 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Economy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Issues related to tourism sector<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The article explains the potential of riverine tourism in India.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Prime Minister launched the MV Ganga Vilas from Varanasi.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are some facts about MV Ganga Vilas?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The luxury 51-day cruise will be operated in partnership with private players by the <strong>Inland Waterways Authority<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It will traverse several states, two countries and make stops at about 50 tourist and heritage sites along the <strong>Ganga and Brahmaputra river systems<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It will <strong>generate employment<\/strong> for people living in these states.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the way forward to ensure sustainable growth in riverine tourism?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>employment generation<\/strong> must go hand-in-hand with ecological repair.<\/p>\n<p>Issues of <strong>silting and pollution<\/strong> must be addressed by the government to realise its goal to increase cruise passenger traffic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sustainable growth<\/strong> is possible if it i<strong>nvolves local communities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There is <strong>huge potential<\/strong> for expansion of larger, luxury liners, riverine tourism. But, the expansion must take into account the <strong>best practices <\/strong>from around India and the world. Also, smaller vessels may pose less of an <strong>ecological challenge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cMV Ganga Vilas: A welcome push for riverine tourism\u201d published in The Indian Express on 16th January 2023. Syllabus: GS3- Economy Relevance&#8211; Issues related to tourism sector News&#8211; The article explains the potential of riverine tourism in India. Recently, the Prime Minister launched the MV Ganga Vilas&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mv-ganga-vilas-a-welcome-push-for-riverine-tourism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MV Ganga Vilas: A welcome push for riverine tourism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10500],"class_list":["post-222727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700781980,"cached_date":1703983267},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}