Guwahati: Various prospects and possibilities for promotion of tourism industry in the northeast region were elaborately discussed in a seminar held at LGBI Airport on Thursday.
The seminar “on the role of airport in the process of developing tourism in the North East India” was organised by Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL) .
Assam’s tourism minister Jayanta Malla Barua, who inagurated the seminar said that as air transport enables millions of people to engage in cultural exchange, it also boosts to the tourism industry which is a major emerging economic factor in Assam.
Addressing the seminar, Sher Khan, deputy CEO, AAHL, highlighted the road map to transform the airport in to a more sophisticated and developed place in the coming days which will create the airport in to a regional hub.
The seminar which was attended by the dignitaries from tourism departments of the northeast states, discussed the prospects and possibilities of road and inland waterways to attract the tourists were also elaborately discussed in the seminar.
Earlier, in his inaugural speech, Utpal Baruah, the Chief Airport Officer, Adani Guwahati International Airport Limited, said that the Adani Group is blessed with the opportunity to serve the region by developing the airport to an economic hub and commited to promote the tourism industry in the northeast region.