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| Tourism ministry plans to share Goa roadmap with other ministries to take G20 vision forward | | | agencies
NEW DELHI, June 27: The tourism ministry plans to share the Goa roadmap and outcome document that emerged from the two crucial G20 events hosted recently with other ministries to collectively take forward the vision of sustainability and resilience across sectors, officials said on Tuesday. The G20 Tourism Working Group Meeting and the G20 Tourism Ministerial Meeting were held in Panaji, the capital of Goa, from June 19-22. Union Tourism Secretary V Vidyavathi on Tuesday interacted with media on the recently concluded events, and said, "Now, for us (tourism ministry), it is a beginning of an opportunity to ensure how we can keep the momentum going". About 200 G20 meetings are being hosted at 50 locations across the country. A Goa Roadmap and Action Plan, and an Outcome Document and Chair's Summary were issued after the G20 ministerial meeting in Panaji.
Five inter-related key priorities of the G20 tourism track -- green tourism, digitisation, destination management, skills and tourism MSMEs -- were endorsed by all G20 countries for achieving sustainable, resilient and inclusive tourism, officials had earlier said. Vidyavathi said these five priority areas are "all-encompassing" and "action on these lie with many ministries as well".
"Everybody plays the part. We want to share the documents with other ministries so that all of us can become key players... it's a collective document," she said in response to a query. The multi-point Outcome Document and Chair's Summary, and Goa Roadmap and Action Plan are exhaustive documents.
The Outcome Document pertains to paragraphs 1 to 3 and paragraphs 6 to 36 which have been "unanimously agreed" to by all G20 delegations. The Chair's Summary pertains to paragraphs 4 and 5.
While paragraph 4 refers to the "war in Ukraine", paragraph 5 mentions that "today's era must not be of war".
"Russia disassociated itself from the status of this document as a common outcome because of references to para 4 and 5," reads a footnote in the Outcome Document and Chair's Summary.
Asked about these two paragraphs, Additional Secretary in Tourism Ministry, Rakesh Verma, said, "Usually you have a joint communique. This is in the backdrop of the geopolitical issue".
"That's how the Sherpa and the G20 Secretariat have advised Tourism Working Group, rather all working groups... Just because, with these two paragraphs, Russia was not in agreement with, we call it a Chair's Summary," he told reporters.
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