Corporate head to drive tourism in Delhi

New Delhi : Delhi Government is planning to appoint a corporate honcho as the chairman of Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation (DTTDC) to boost the sector in the national capital.

The post, which used to be occupied by political leaders in the past, would now have a corporate leader with clean image.

"Our objective is to revive tourism of Delhi and boost other tourism organisations in the city. We are looking for someone who can revive economy and generate employment in this

sector," Kapil Mishra, newly appointed Tourism Minister, said.

"Earlier, political leaders were given this post but we are looking for corporate head who can aggressively work in improving tourism in Delhi. We are looking for someone who has

proved himself in corporate sector and is willing to work with us in changing the city.

"There are many businessmen who have earned money but we will be looking forward to the development of the city," he said.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government is also exploring new tourism opportunities to attract more visitors so that more funds could be generated and the department is studying

new tourism opportunities in the city.

Earlier, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said that tourism is one of the top priorities of his government and had promised to develop Delhi as tourism hub.

"Not only this department will help the city in evolving but tourism department has solution for all the city problem.

It can help in checking pollution, addressing women security and employment. We are going to have tourism centric approach in all the projects," Mishra said.

According to senior officials, the department had been looking after retail trade of liquor and construction of flyovers in the city. But after AAP government came to power, it is trying to revive Yamuna river bank and has proposed to develop the area for adventure sports.

The department will soon hold a meeting to check the status of the project and action plan on its revival. Officials also said that the government will do scrutiny of existing agreements which were signed with the governments in past.