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He also said that all the hotels and guest houses in the state will have to compulsorily upload the data of their guests on the 'TIME' (tourism information management enterprises) software starting April 1.
Khaunte was responding to a question tabled by Revolutionary Goans Party (RGP) MLA Viresh Borkar, which led other members, including Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)MLA Venzy Viegas, to ask supplementary questions related to the tourism sector.
Khaunte said the department wants to introduce airlines incentives schemes which will be applicable only to those countries or airline companies that bring in high-spending international tourists.
The department was trying to enhance the tourism sector through direct flight connectivity, he said. Recently, the state government representatives met Union Civil Aviation Minister (Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu), during which the need to explore possibilities of open sky policy was discussed, he said.
The state government was already working with the Centre to implement the e-visa policy in the state, Responding to Borkar's question on the data of tourists spending in the state, Khaunte said from April 1 onwards, all the hotels and guest houses will have to compulsorily load the information about tourists on the TIME software.
The department has been requesting the hotels and guest houses to do the same for the last two years, but now it would be made mandatory, he said.
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