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Heritage tourism drive
Heritage tourism drive
Thursday, April 5, 2007 | AY
In its attempt to promote heritage tourism and attract more domestic as well as foreign tourists to Gujarat, the government has come out with a special “Heritage Tourism Incentive Package — 2007” scheme under which private parties will be encouraged to convert historical properties like palaces, forts and havelis into heritage hotels. Under the incentive package worked out by the State Industries Department, prospective developers, who want to convert heritage properties built before 1950 into hotels, will be exempted from paying electricity duty and luxury tax for five years, and also from the payment of stamp duty on land purchase. To avail these incentives, a heritage hotel must have minimum of 10 well-furnished rooms - 50 % of them with air conditioned facilities. The other facilities, the prospective developers would have to provide in heritage hotels, include attached bathrooms in all the hotel rooms, parking slots, restaurants and dining rooms for tourists, communication and information gadgets like fax machines, internet and TV and security arrangements for tourists.
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