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	<title>Views On Tourism &#187; India</title>
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	<description>Knowledge and inspiration to the Bangladeshi tourism sector. This blog is also valuable to nearby countries, developing countries or destinations facing similar challenges.</description>
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		<title>An opportunity to convert the long off-season into the most interesting tourism season, the initiative to form a monsoon tourism Board is on&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/an-opportunity-to-convert-the-long-off-season-into-the-most-interesting-tourism-season-the-initiative-to-form-a-monsoon-tourism-board-is-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Majbritt Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TTF – Kolkata, Netaji Indoor Stadium. 02nd Day. 01st August, 2010. 11:00hrs to 13:00hrs.
Media Seminar: Tourism Speciality Product, Indian Monsoons (An EHTTOA Initiative).
Organized by Fair Fest Media and Eastern Himalaya Travel &#038; Tour Operators’ Association.
Background: Very few places in the world witness a monsoon season similar to the Indian Peninsula and Malayan Peninsula. The origin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tourism, the Poor and Other Stakeholders: Experience in Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 09:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Majbritt Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Paper pulls together 27 case studies of local tourism development to identify what is known regarding impacts of tourism on stakeholders in different circumstances. The case studies have been drawn from two geographic clusters: Southeast Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam), and the mountainous regions of Nepal and northern India.
Tourism is a significant industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Royal thoughts from Bhutan &#8211; Changing World and Timeless Values</title>
		<link>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/royal-thoughts-from-bhutan-changing-world-and-timeless-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 02:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Majbritt Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[His Majesty the Fifth King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, during his five-day state visit to India from 21 to 26 December, 2009, delivered the 2009 Madhavrao Scindia Memorial Lecture.  In his speech, His Majesty shares the insights and values of how to bring balance in an era of increasing chaos and material [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The case for regional cooperation</title>
		<link>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/the-case-for-regional-cooperation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 02:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Majbritt Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regional unity starts at the border. Photo: Mohammad Islam/ Drik News
Geography dictates that the destinies of India and Bangladesh are inextricably intertwined. This is what makes Bangladesh and India very special neighbours. There is great benefit in the two countries working very closely together. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina&#8217;s visit to India in January 2010 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A single visa SAARC – The old Silk Route reinvented</title>
		<link>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/a-single-visa-saarc-%e2%80%93-the-old-silk-route-reinvented/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Majbritt Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My issue is about the visa and how it can help to slow climate change.
There are more people, who travel within the SAARC countries, as a part of several kinds of illegal trafficking and migration than the number of visas issued.
We have to talk about a single SAARC visa for legal passport holders of SAARC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHANTINIKETAN DECLARATION</title>
		<link>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/shantiniketan-declaration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Majbritt Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attendance at the Policy Workshop ‘Peace through Tourism in historically changed Cross-borders’ at Museum Hall, Department of History, Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan on 29th &#038; 30th March, 2010. Organized by Department Of History &#038; Help Tourism.
• 36 participants from all over India, specially Northeast, West Bengal and Orissa with delegates from Bhutan and Bangladesh.
• Included Government officials, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting World Heritage Sites</title>
		<link>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/connecting-world-heritage-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/connecting-world-heritage-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Majbritt Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecting World Heritage Sites through people’s participation between the two North Bengals of Bangladesh &#038; India through tourism to confirm conservation of heritage and peace.
 lonelyplanet.com  mentions in its description very rightly, except the approach (getting to Paharpur) which is now quite easy:
The Somapuri Vihara at Paharpur was once the biggest Buddhist monastery south [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Asia Taps Tourism Potential for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth</title>
		<link>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/south-asia-taps-tourism-potential-for-inclusive-and-sustainable-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/south-asia-taps-tourism-potential-for-inclusive-and-sustainable-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Majbritt Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Efforts by Nepal, India and Bangladesh to take advantage of the tourism potential of their rich natural and cultural attractions, including many of the world’s major Buddhist sites, are getting support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
ADB Board of Directors today approved a total of $57.5 million in grants and loans for the   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Transit to India from Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/giving-transit-to-india-from-bangladesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Majbritt Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ ADB help sought to assess benefits
Bangladesh has sought Asian Development Bank assistance in carrying out a study on the economic benefits of providing transit facility to India. Dhaka also sought ADB help for a project for importing electricity from India.
The ADB has already indicated that it would provide $97.63 million for the power import [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nationalist, Anti-Nationalist or Beyond Nationalist?</title>
		<link>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/nationalist-anti-nationalist-or-beyond-nationalist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.viewsontourism.info/2010/nationalist-anti-nationalist-or-beyond-nationalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Majbritt Thomsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shamima Nasreen presents Tagore as a thinker for the world
Rabindranath Tagore had sensible and clearly articulated views about nationalism in the light of cross-cultural knowledge, education for freedom of the mind, war and peace, the importance of reasonable criticism, the need for openness, and so on. His books show the influence of different parts of [...]]]></description>
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