The mythical legends from India are brimming with vivid imagination. They are narrative superlatives par excellence. Many stories, from today’s perspective, are sometimes exuberant, almost grotesque. This short blog makes no claim to be a comprehensive investigation of these legends, let alone a scientific study. Rather, it is the result of my personal insights and is intended to demonstrate that experience-oriented travel is also educational. And, incidentally, above all, it is stimulating and fun.
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This morning, I read in newspapers, on TV, or on the radio about hundreds of conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine, the crisis in Sudan, the violence in Syria, the Israel-Gaza conflict, the instability in Yemen, the tensions in North Korea, the displacement in the Congo, the disputes in Myanmar, the economic and political crisis, uncertainty, and so on—all of which fill the daily headlines. This constant barrage of news about conflicts and crises is overwhelming.
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Your travel website is the representation of what your business looks like. In today’s world sustainability has become a buzzword, so it is important that we shout out our commitment on social media; you all are doing really good work and it is worth the effort to use it as a marketing tool. We would advise the travel and tour operators to include the below on your website:
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Collarwali or ‘Mataram’ ‘Respected Mother’ in Hindi, who died recently. She is a legend in the Pench Tiger Reserve that straddles the Madhya Pradesh and Maharashta borders of India.
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Google encourages green travel through its new features, which help the consumer make eco friendly choices. These new features are added to Google Search & Maps with the focus on reducing carbon emissions by 2030.
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WORLD TOURISM DAY 2022: Rethinking Tourism The pandemic has illustrated, far better than my 20 years of sustained advocacy, just how critical nature based tourism is to saving our parks and wildlife - whoever runs them. Redirecting it to make [...]
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Model for post-Covid ecotourism Halt to road project in fragile bio-diversity hotspot revives conservation hopes Ornithologists Carol Inskipp, Rupendra Karmacharya and Prem Thapa with a follow-up about how their lobbying has halted a controversial road project in a northern Chitwan […]
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Coronavirus has finally made us recognise that illegal wildlife trade is a public health issue TOFTigers have always campaigned for, and participated in NGO alliances, to close down on markets in wildlife products, alongside ‘Tiger farms’ in China and elsewhere […]
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