Union Territory Yanam to have more attractions
The private investors are now concentrating on tourism development in East Godavari district. Their main concentration is on Union Territory Yanam, Kakinada, Rajahmundry,and Rampachodavaram. .
Most of the tourists visit Rajahmundry for boat cruise to Papikondalu and now they are slowly moving to other places such as Koringa, Mada wildlife forests, Antarvedi beach where Godavari joins Bay of Bengal, Kotipalli Revu, Didi Resorts, Maredumilli forest eco-tourism and other places. However, the State Tourism Department has been concentrating on Dindi resorts and Papi Hills and the rest of the tourist spots are neglected for long time.
Now, the Anand Toursim has taken lead in tourism development. As, Yanam is a developing city with regard to tourism and due to location of a number of petro chemical projects in and around Yanam, many foreign tourists are regularly visiting the place.
They prefer to stay in star hotels in Rajahmundry or Kakinada. “Keeping this in mind, we formally launched a three-star hotel in Yanam and would declare it open officially during Yanam Praja festival on January 5 and 6,” said P. Ramakrishna Kumar, vice-president of Anand Regency Hotels.
According to him, the two specially-designed boats for cruise across Godavari river between Rajahmundry and Papikondalu and from Rajahmundry to Bhadrachalam are getting good response with people from different parts of the State and also from West Bengal Orissa, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu making advance bookings for the cruise. Anand Regency, Yanam has well in advance had planned a big bash on the eve of New Year in an island off Yanam coast. “We have just started cleaning the island and applied for permissions from the forest and other departments,” said Bhaskar, business manager of the hotel.
source: http://www.TheHindu.com / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by B.K.S. Bhaskar / Rajahmundry, November 24th, 2012