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02:04A lot has changed in the last seven years
02:10Seven and a half years
02:11Since we started working on
02:15Really putting tourism
02:18As one of the
02:20Top, I should say, priorities
02:23In terms of
02:25The opportunities that we saw
02:30In terms of the
02:33Employment that could be created
02:36And in terms of
02:39The overall
02:39Competitive advantage
02:41That we as a state have
02:43We started working on
02:47Developing the tourism
02:48And the tourism sector as a whole
02:50In the last seven and a half years
02:53And as has been mentioned
02:56By so many people who spoke before me
02:58That we are finally starting to see
03:02The impact of
03:04The different
03:05Steps that have been taken by us
03:08To overall improve the
03:11Tourism ecosystem
03:13In the state of
03:15Meghalaya
03:16In the last
03:19Couple of years
03:21We had about
03:2614 lakh tourists
03:28Domestic tourists
03:30Who came in
03:30That's 1.4 million
03:31Tourists
03:32And last year
03:352024
03:35That number increased
03:38To 16 lakhs
03:391.6 million tourists
03:41So in a matter of
03:42Two years
03:43We saw an increase
03:44Of about
03:442 lakh tourists
03:45Coming into our state
03:48And also
03:50If you look at
03:50The international tourists
03:51In 2023
03:53We had about
03:553 lakh
03:552 lakh
03:57International tourists
03:58That came in
03:59These numbers
03:59Are
04:01Clearly
04:02A testament
04:04Of
04:04The kind
04:06Of
04:06Change
04:07That we are seeing
04:08In our state
04:09And
04:10I am happy to inform you
04:11That this growth
04:12Has been very very consistent
04:13And it is not that
04:15These are spikes
04:16That happen once in a while
04:17But these are
04:18Planned
04:20Strategies
04:21And policies
04:21That we put in place
04:22To see that consistency
04:24To see that growth
04:25To see that sustainability
04:27In the whole process
04:28And that is the most
04:30We have to do
04:31All right
04:31That we can see
04:33That we will gather
04:36In the whole process
04:37For
04:38To see that
04:38There is no
04:40That we can discover
04:40When the
04:40In the whole process
04:41And the whole process
04:44Of
04:45Terrnymi
04:45In a way
04:46The
04:47Do
04:48This is hard
04:49We have to be
04:49throughout the
04:49Still
04:50At
04:50Under
04:51The
04:51Though
04:51In a way
04:53And
04:53In a way
04:53Hope
04:53You have to have
04:54A
04:55Have to
04:56Ona
07:52And the final award, the fourth award, which is the gold award for the Sustainable Leadership Homestay, goes to Hills Abort Homestay.
08:08We move on to the next category. We have the Sustainable Leadership B&B and Guest House category.
08:22We move on to the next category.
08:52That is the most satisfying aspect of the growth that we are seeing in tourism.
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