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Goa should have more beach shacks: Association
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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Aug, 2019
Goa's beach shack owners have demanded an increase in the number of
shacks dotting Goa's beaches, while also urging the state government to
create a separate policy for traditional shack owners, Cruz Cardozo,
President of the Goa Shack Owners Welfare Society said on Saturday.
Licences should be given as soon as possible, Cardozo said after a meeting of the Association's members on Saturday.
"There
are 364 shack licences allotted on a lottery basis every year. The
Association has passed a resolution that more shacks should be allowed
on Goa's beaches as per the carrying capacity of every beach," Cardozo
said.
Goa's shacks are synonymous with Goa's beaches, have to be
disbanded with the onset of monsoons every year. Every year before the
commencement of the tourism season in March, the state tourism ministry
conducts a lottery for allotment of beach shacks. The shacks are
mandatorily dismantled ahead of the rainy season on May 31.
Cardozo
said, in the interest of beach shack owners who have been running beach
hospitality operations from the 1980s, should be included in a separate
category, which is not a part of the annual lottery system.
"They
have been running shacks for decades. We have passed a resolution that
old timers in the shack industry should be spared the lottery system.
Let the newcomers to the industry participate in the lotteries," Cardozo
said.
The state is known for its beach and nightlife tourism and
attracts nearly eight million tourists every year, half a million of
which are foreigners.
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