Goa Tourism achieves first milestone under e-registration facility: 500 e-certificates issued as on Oct 21.

Panjim, Oct 21: Within three weeks of the commencement of the E-registration facility for tourism trades and services, the Department of Tourism has successfully issued 500 e-registration certificates as on date through the E-registration Facilitation Center at Paryatan Bhavan, Patto, Panjim.

The department has received an overwhelming response to the e-registration facility launched on World Tourism Day (September 27, 2015).

The Director of Tourism, Mr. Ameya Abhyankar said, “We receive around 45 new applications daily and after completing all procedures the authorized e-registration certificates are issued to the applicants. As many as 40 to 45 e-registration certificates are issued daily.”

Since the launch of the new facility, a total of 914 applications have been received. These have come from water sports operators, taxi operators, travel agents and hotels.

A total of 388 taxi operators and 123 water sports operators have received authorized e-registration certificates till date.

Mr. Abhyankar further said, “The e-registration process is working very successfully and smoothly and due care is taken to ensure that each process is carried out in a fast and transparent manner.”

He further said that the RFC was launched just before the commencement of the tourism season so that all tourism stakeholders could avail of this new facility and launch operations after procuring registrations within a short period of time.

The Minister for Tourism, Mr. Dilip Parulekar said, “It is a big achievement to issue 500 e-registration certificates for various tourism trades. The new facility has reduced the waiting period for registration certificates and the new process is not only fast but also systematic and transparent.”

He said that the RFC will be tasked further by bringing in more verticals and making it a truly Single Window System that will benefit all those engaged in providing tourism services especially the local Goans.

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