Safety takes a front seat at Wayanad tourist destinations

The Wayanad District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC) has set a model for ensuring the safety of tourists who visit the hill district by constituting trained rapid response teams (RRT) in all tourism centres under various departments.The Wayanad district administration, in association with the council, had launched a disaster-resilient tourist destination project under the Wayanad tourism’s safe tourism campaign recently and the RRTs were set up as a part of the campaign.
The project envisaged enabling all the tourism destinations in the district to deal with any disaster, K.G. Ajesh, secretary, DTPC, Wayanad, told The Hindu. Mr. Ajesh claimed that it was for the first time in the country that such RRTs were constituted exclusively for tourism destinations.

Each tourist destination would have a separate disaster management plan, a specially trained emergency response team and warning systems based on the geographical characteristics of each area under the project, he said.

Courtesy : The Hindu