Godinho warns stake holders against overcharging tourists

Staff Reporter

Pernem

Warning against overcharging tourists, Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho has said, “Don’t kill the chicken that lays the golden eggs. If we overprice everything, we will kill the tourism industry.”

Stating that there has been a 50 percent decline in tourist footfall for the last three months of the tourism season, Godinho said, “Tourists are diverting to other tourist destinations and all the stakeholders of the tourism industry are responsible for this. If hotels, flights and taxis and others overprice, why will tourists come to Goa? People calculate the expanse and Goa is found to be costly.”

The Transport Minister was addressing the inaugural function of blue cab prepaid taxi stand at the Manohar International Airport at Mopa on Saturday in the presence of Pernem MLA Pravin Arlekar, GMR official Shrikant Bhandarkar, Blue Cab Prepaid Taxi Association president Sanjay Kambli, president of All Goa…