The advisory says the strike is affecting travel in and around Goa, including on the road to the airport and around major hotels. The UK tourists have been asked to avoid areas where protests are reported to be taking place and adhere to any instructions issued by the local authorities, as well as allow more time than usual to travel to the airport.
Since Monday, taxi drivers have kept their vehicles off the road protesting against a private car service that was introduced recently, in Goa.
On Monday, at many places — in both districts vehicles carrying tourists were blocked. Calangute and Baga witnessed some violent incidents with taxi drivers resorting to violence. Though, no untoward incident was reported on Tuesday thanks to heavy deployment of police forces at various tourist spots, tourists were put to inconvenience for want of taxi transport, nonetheless.
Some hotels had cancellation of bookings due to the strike. Industry stake holders fear of losing more business in the coming days if the agitation by the taxi operators is not called off.
The industry stakeholders particularly hoteliers fear that the next tourist season will not be as good as this year as queries have already started pouring in from various foreign tour operators about the situation in the state.
UK issues travel advisory for its citizens in Goa
No comments:
Post a Comment