Eight tourism hubs have been created, which are ahmedabad Metro, Ahmedabad Rural (North Gujarat); Surat (South Gujarat); Vadodara (Central Gujarat); Rajkot, Junagadh & Jamnagar (Saurashtra) and Bhuj (Kutch), for convenience of tourists visiting Gujarat.
These hubs are well equipped with the modern infrastructure, facilities and services in the areas of commerce, communication, connectivity, hospitality, transportation, medical facilities etc.

Some good reasons to travel to gujarat:
•Travelling is therapeautic
•Travelling is educational
•Travelling helps in learning diverse Culture Traits
•Gujarat harbours picturesque landscapes, historical sites
and long stretches of Coastlines
•A visit to Gujarat is rejuvenating, relaxing, Inspiring
•Relate to the vibrant culture and make friends
• Leave with spellbound Memories, lasting impressions
and life long learning

Gujarat is one of the most diverse States in India. Its history stretches over a long years from the age old Harappan Civilization to the Mughal period. Gujarat’s endless journey from Roots to Wings is timeless with historical and cultural traditions glorifying the State.

The Land of the Legends
Gujarat, the Land of the Legends, is the birthplace of many Freedom fighters like the legendary Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and many others who fought the freedom struggle, infusing the qualities of tolerance, brotherhood, non-violence and patriotism into Indians.

Historical and Archaeological Monuments
The cultural mix enhanced with over 4500 years of history has endowed Gujarat with some of the greatest historical and archaeological monuments. While Lothal offers an unparalleled insight into the Harappan civilization, Ahmedabad has specimens of Indo-Sarcenic architecture, Palitana has a profusion of temples in the Jain style, Junagadh displays Buddhist caves and Rajput architecture appears all over different parts of Gujarat. A major Tourist destination of immense potential, its historical monuments represent the great religions of Asia Hindu, Buddhism, Jain, Islam, Parsi and Sikh.

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SARHAD TOURISM CORPORATION (STC) IS SEEKING ATTRACTIVE SLOGANS FOR PROMOTION OF TOURISM IN THE PROVINCE

The romance of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan is timeless and legendary. In a bid to attract more domestic and international tourists and to project the region positively, STC invites one & all to suggest appealing, catchy and
attractive slogans that could be adopted for tourism promotional purposes. The slogans and catchwords shall be displayed on important tourist entry points and printed on stickers and tourist brochures. Winning slogan would be selected by the Tourism Advisory Committee.

Slogans should:
• reflect NWFP’s fabled cultural, historical & tourism charm, identity and values.
• be in versions of English, Urdu or Pashto.
• consist of a phrase or sentence of words readable.
• be easy to remember & convey a sense of our traditional hospitality, warmth, cordiality, enchanting natural beauty and adventure that is the Frontier.
• be accompanied with the contributor’s name, phone and address.
• be submitted before May 20, 2008.
• be sent by email (stcnwfp@hotmail.com) or fax (+92-91-9210871)

Sarhad Tourism Corporation (Govt. of N.W.F.P)
13-A, Khyber Road, Peshawar.
Pakistan
www.nwfptourism.com.pk

“The Frontier’s recorded history goes as far back as 539 BC at least, when it was a province of the Persian Alchaemenian Empire. From then onwards it came under the sway of many different rulers namely Mauryans, Greeks, Scythians, Kushans, Sasanians, White Huns, Hindu Shahis, Ghaznavids, Slave Dynasty, Ghorids, Suri Afghans, Mughals, Durrani Afghans, Sikhs, and the British.” AJ

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Essentially, from a positive economic perspective, tourism has been a noteworthy factor behind the growth of Australia’s economy in recent years it contributes significantly to Australia’s Gross Domestic Product and creates extensive employment opportunities in a broad range of fields ranging from accommodation, transport, theme parks, tour operators, restaurants, museums and souvenir retailers. The implications of the immediate foreign income received from tourist expenditure are significant in the sense that they can be used to pay for the imports required to sustain a country’s basic demands.

However, these economic benefits are considerably diminished, and often become negligible, by the potential socioeconomic or environmental costs borne by the community from the activities of tourists. From this view, tourism becomes a burden the host country must sustain to preserve its natural environment and culture, in order to maintain its appeal to the international market. Furthermore, tourism is governed by global economic conditions and as demonstrated by the Asian economic crisis in the late 1990s, it is an industry that is essentially unreliable as a source for employment because of these erratic fluctuations. To a great extent, it also undermines Australia’s perceived elimination of gender discriminations, for only 36% of managers are women in tourism the majority are confined to the diminutive jobs of housekeeping, waiting or kitchen work. Ultimately, tourism becomes a vicious cycle of economic advantages and disadvantages between which a functional balance must be sought to avoid the irreversible consequences and devastating impacts poorly planned tourism is capable of wreaking.

Tourism also embodies significant implications for Australian society for its impacts likewise encompass from beneficial to detrimental developments. In support of tourism, many will argue that it initiates governmental action in improving the primary infrastructure and facilities of communities, in order to heighten their appeal to a foreign audience. For instance the 2000 Sydney Olympics equipped the city with international sporting stadiums, improved transport amenities and airport services.

However, the dominant social consideration is the social carrying capacity’, which is a measure of the maximum amount of tourist activity the host community is able to tolerate or sustain. An extreme case of the results of an excess of these tourism-orientated activities is the development of intense social hostility between cultures, with the host community regarding visitors as the usurpers of their original quality of life and the insensitive exploiters of Australia’s environmental beauty. The principles and lifestyles of the tourists become regarded as alien’ and because they are unable to assimilate into Australian society, they therefore erode the traditional values of Australian society.

Often, in a rush to develop the tourism industry, the social impacts are often overshadowed by the short-term gains, despite the fact that the essential composition of the host society will have a significant influence on the potential success of the development. Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the effects of tourism in Australia is its displacement of local residents, who are unable to afford the dramatic increases in the costs of living arising from the tourist prices for commodities. Tourism has also been associated with an increasing crime rate, from prostitution, gambling and drug abuse, and the tensions and dangers these factors create in local communities is equally responsible for resident displacement and subsequently, a general disintegration of community morale.

Tourists to Australia in recent years have become in