MADHYA PRADESH, KERALA SIGN PACT FOR RESPONSIBLE TOURISM

MADHYA PRADESH HAS signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kerala to implement the latter’s Responsible Tourism (RT) model which “involves local communities and makes tourism a tool for rural development”.

As a part of this project, Kerala will help Madhya Pradesh chart its RT masterplan, ready human resources to implement the project, conduct training projects, list the criteria for the formation of district tourism promotion councils, locate sustained tourism projects, formulate social and economic security measures, help in gradation of hotels, resorts, and homestays, and form tourism clubs on lines of Kerala’s Responsible Tourism model. keralatourism.org; mptourism.com