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BLACK Nhesop Atanchem Fashion Premiers at Masrah, Hawalli Auditorium, Kuwait on Aug 10, 2007 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2007-August/060201.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Union ministry is promoting branded home stay or B&B as an alternative to to budget hotels reports Outlook (6th August 07). This would be an affordable alternative to budget hotels. It aims to be economical, homely and give the visitors an Indian experience. The concept is catching on with NRI's,PIO's, corporates, foriegn tourists etc. India now needs 70,000 hotel rooms double that by 2010 to meet the target of 10 million overseas visitors annually. Goa had taken the first adminitrative initiative and has over 600 registered B&B's and service apartment clusters.Explains Pamela Masceranhas,deputy director, Goa's tourism department: "' We started it in 1985,from one room hutments to upmarket heritage homes. During Oct-March period, theres 60-70 percent occupancy". Of late other states especially Delhi and those of the South are following suit. Pascal Pinto Orchids, H No 251, Morombi O Grande,Merces, Goa,INDIA PS: I wonder whether the shacks rented out by the fisherfolk in Candolim-Calangute -Baga and where we spent our glorious summer holidays a forerunner to the Indian B&B?