Indian authorities have rejected a plan by the adult entertainment company, Playboy, to open its first club in Goa. Goa CM Manohar Parrikar said that Playboy`s proposal will not be considered by his government on “technical grounds,” the BBC reported. The club was being planned to open on Goa`s Candolim beach. According to reports, Bharatiya Janata [...]
Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar told the state legislative assembly on Monday that the government is considering Playboy’s proposal to set up a club at Candolim beach, responding to a question by BJP legislator Michael Lobo on the floor of the House. Lobo had asked whether permission has been granted to Playboy to operate a [...]
Like hundreds of other small joints, a nameless liquor outlet of a former five-star hotel cook Peter Fernandes offers fresh fish and liquor. But liquor here does not mean beer. The bar’s USP is ’urrack’, a brew made from cashew. In the coastal state of Goa known for cheap liquor, beer and whiskey take a backseat [...]
Star hotels and resorts in Goa could soon have pigs, cows and poultry to gobble up their garbage generated in-house. Such “animal farms” operated by hotels is on the agenda of Francis Braganza, president of the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG), who said that if the government isn’t able to resolve the garbage [...]
With the Goa government getting strict on shutting down loud music by 10 pm, putting a curb on the number of beach beds and reducing the number of tables that shacks can place outside their premises, tourism stakeholders have complained of losses suffered in business this year even as Goa experiences its ‘peak season’ with [...]
