Goa Tourism

As Goa tourist season begins, the state's challenges: Prices, 'perception'

October 05, 2025 12:56 pm

Tourism in Goa is faced with many real challenges, from taxi monopolies to overcrowded beaches. But it also ails from a perception problem, Goans say. As the 2025-26 tourist season begins, here’s a status check

‘People have begun selling idli-sambar at Goan beach shacks. What are you trying to tell tourists?’: BJP MLA Michael Lobo

February 28, 2025 7:54 am

BJP MLA Michael Lobo said he has called on the tourism department to cancel licences of shacks that have been “given to outsiders to run”.

‘Every social media influencer took Goa for a ride,’ says tourism minister, this time armed with data

January 14, 2025 3:56 pm

Singed by criticism, his department says domestic tourism is at a record high while foreign tourism is showing signs of recovery

As Goa’s image takes a hit, tourism minister’s tirade against ‘paid influencers’: Seek ‘free lunch and stay’

January 04, 2025 8:18 pm

Says tourist footfall figures paint a different reality than one shown on social media, asserts: ‘We don't want to experience a Thailand in Goa’

‘Footfall nowhere near what it used to be’: In Goa, shack owners say buzz from tourists is missing

January 01, 2025 7:48 pm

Despite the Tourism Department issuing licences to set up temporary beach shacks as early as August this year, the occupancy at shacks in the coastal belt has been relatively low, shack owners say.

Tourism in Goa is more than tourists being tourists — it is about a limited Indian imagination

November 18, 2024 1:31 pm

India may be a country with many different languages, religions and ethnicities, however, a very new social activity (that of tourism) continues to be enacted through the lenses of majoritarianism. We interact with those who are different from us through our own frameworks of beliefs and behaviours.

Tourists 'come in jeeps, drink alcohol, litter', so Goa's Calangute panchayat resolves to tax them

June 20, 2024 12:26 am

Cites similar taxes being imposed in Maharashtra’s Mahabaleshwar.

Goa set to bring new tourism Bill that will curb touts, keep tourists safe

June 16, 2024 10:35 pm

Aim is to ‘protect, preserve and retain’ cultural heritage of state; could be presented in monsoon session

Don’t force feed

October 10, 2023 12:16 am

Goan fish curry and rice is delicious. But making it mandatory in shacks is not the best way to popularise state’s culinary heritage

Vision to promote Goa ‘beyond the beaches’ and focus on hinterland tourism: Tourism Minister

July 26, 2023 9:41 pm

Rohan Khaunte says the government is taking ‘some bitter steps’ to promote sustainable tourism for future generations.

Goa village wants to go dry

June 22, 2020 6:18 pm