This Durga Puja, Kolkata to throw open its gates to welcome Chinese tourists

Kolkata is drawing up to throw open its doors to Chinese tourists on the occasion of Durga Puja festivals. It will be a part of a plan to build people-to-people relations between West Bengal and Yunnan province. Under the plan, China will bring in tourists to Kolkata from Kunming city during the festive season of Durga Puja. They will travel through the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar (BCIM) economic corridor.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 9 May 2016.

The Chinese Consul General has indicated that arrangements are being made so that a group of 100-200 tourists from China can come to Kolkata during the Durga Puja in October. The idea is to tie-up with Durga Puja pandals in the city so that Chinese symbols like those related to dragons, umbrellas etc. can also be showcased during the four-day-long festival.
It will basically be an exchange of culture and, a team of government officials from Yunnan province will come to the city later this month to hold talks with the state tourism department officials and the big puja organisers. Of course, they will come after the new state government takes charge.
The itinerary of the group of Chinese tourists will be tour all over the city to see some of the most attractive pandals, apart from the regular attractions of colonial-era Kolkata.


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