Celebration of World Tourism Day 2023
Date: Sep 27, 2023 | Time: 11.00 am | Venue/Mode: Room no. 303, MCB Building, Cotton University
A program was organised to celebrate the World Tourism Day on 27th September 2023 by the Yuva Tourism Club, Office of the Director of Students’ Welfare, and Department of Archaeology, Cotton University in association with the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Kamrup Chapter at the Conference Hall 311, MCB Building, Cotton University. The program was inaugurated by Honourable Vice Chancellor of Cotton University Professor Ramesh Chandra Deka. The program was attended by the Registrar of Cotton University Dr. Arindam Garg; Director, Student’s Welfare Dr. Prasant Sarma; Professor Shiela Bora, Adjunct Professor of the Department of Archaeology, Cotton University; Adviser to the Department of History, The Assam Royal Global University and Former HoD, Department of History, Dibrugarh University and Convener, Assam Chapter of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage; Dr. Jonali Devi, Former Dean (i/c), Faculty of Human and Social Sciences and former Head, Department of Anthropology, Cotton University and Co-Convener, Kamrup Chapter of Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage; Dr. Narayan Sarma, Department of Environment Biology and Wildlife Sciences and HoDs and faculty members of various departments and students.
Coordinated by Dr. Manjil Hazarika of Yuva Tourism Club and HoD (i/c), Department of Archaeology of Cotton University, the program was organized as part of the mission of United Nations World Tourism Organisation to raise awareness on the role of tourism within the international community and to demonstrate how it affects social, cultural, political and economic values worldwide. The prime objective of the theme for this year “Tourism and Green Investments” has been to highlight the need for more and better-targeted investments for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
One of the major agendas of this year’s theme is to invest in education and skills in the tourism sector. This is also a basic feature of the New Education Policy 2020 to have skills in the education and curriculum. The tourism and hospitality sector is one of the leading industries for countries like India where thousands of skilled human resources are required for a steady economic growth. Considering the theme of “Tourism and Green Investments”, two eminent speakers who are involved in many important initiatives linking nature, ecology, culture, heritage and tourism were invited to speak at the event, namely Prof. Shiela Bora and Dr. Narayan Sarma.
As the Department of Archaeology has been offering a Skill Enhancement Course on Heritage Tourism for the last a few years, the students of various departments, especially Anthropology and Sanskrit which have opted for the course have also attended the program. The event ended with a screening of the National Award winning filmmaker Kripal Kalita's latest documentary film Hati Bondhu (Friends of Elephants).
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