Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 20: In connection with World Tourism Day, a Tourism Week is being celebrated from today by the Department of Tourism and Travel Management, Central University of Jammu., began today with an inaugural function
The week long celebrations, OJAS- started with a formal inaugural programme, which was followed by Photography, Collage and Poster Making competitions.
The various activities of OJAS also include; Quiz, Slogan Writing, Debate, Nukkad Natak, Documentaries, Rangoli, heritage walk, Road Side Wall Painting, Folk Dance, Folk Song and Leadership Development Camp, which is to be held in Manali.
In the inaugural function, Vice Chancellor Prof Ashok Aima was the chief guest while S M Sahani, convenor INTACH Jammu Chapter was the guest of honour.
S M Sahni shared his experience of the changing scenario of tourism in J&K which ranges from pilgrimage tourism to various others forms, like adventure tourism, wellness tourism, etc. He emphasized on promoting cultural heritage tourism in the State. He suggested that university should come up with department for conservation and preservation of intangible heritage of J&K and rest of India. He also exhorted students that they should have more emphasis on field work to gain first hand exposure to become a successful tourism professionals.
Prof Ashok Aima emphasized the importance of tourism in the society which provides employment to people and empowerment to the different sections of the society. He encouraged the students to travel the different places of Jammu and Kashmir and apprise themselves with the history and culture of their state.
Earlier, Dr Jaya Bhasin, HoD, DTTM, gave a brief on the activities, which will be conducted during the Tourism week.
The formal vote of thanks was delivered by Gowhar Rasool while Dr Bharti Gupta was the master of the inaugural ceremony.
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