Converting lighthouses in Mumbai to attract tourists

The director general Lighthouses and Lightships has indicated that efforts are on to develop eight lighthouses as tourist attractions. these are the ones located at Kanhoji Angre and Sunk Rock off the Mumbai coast, Aguada in Goa, Kadalur Point at Thikkodi in Kerala, Minicoy in Lakshadweep islands, Mahabalipuram and Kanyakumari - Muttom in Tamilnadu and Chandrabhaga in Odisha.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 29 October 2015.

Already four Lighthouses located at Chennai and Mahabalipuram in Tamilnadu and Alapuzha (Alleppy) and Kannur (Cannanore) in Kerala have been developed as tourist attractions, which are seeing substantial footfalls.
It is understood that an Expression of Interest (EOI) for developing tourism infrastructure has also been issued by the DGLL for another set of 70 lighthouses. The shipping ministry has favored Swiss Challenge method for awarding lighthouse projects in a bid to encourage innovative ideas.
The development of tourism infrastructure would necessarily involve addition of hotels or resorts, thematic restaurants, construction of viewing galleries, walk in museums and allied tourism facilities. Such inattentiveness has paid dividends for countries like South Korea, Scotland and South Africa who are the pioneers in development of lighthouse tourism.
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