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Soak in a bit of history and heritage with trendy new cultural tours
Cultural tourism is the new trend in leisure travel.
According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), by 2020, cultural vacations will play a leading role in the travel and tourism space, with travelers showing increasing interested in traditional activities while holidaying abroad, within the country or even while on a hometown stay-cation. According to recent data from TripAdvisor, bookings for cultural and theme tours are up 45 per cent globally over last year, indicating that travelers are increasingly looking to immerse themselves in the local customs and history.
Google chronicles the people and places behind Indian Railways’ 165-year journey
Paleoanthropologists announced this week that fossils discovered in a cave in Morocco are the oldest known specimens of Homo sapiens, predating fossils found in Ethiopia by more than 100,000 years.
The new findings challenge the idea of a single “cradle of humankind” in East Africa, and suggest the traditionally accepted story of human evolution may have to be revised.
Hope Cooperage garden doesn’t get a band-aid treatment from Mumbai civic body
The almost 150-year-old structure was among those that used to be the hub of music and cultural activity in SoBo before it went into disuse and got dilapidated.
Already, the repair cost for the Bandstand and adjoining precincts has spiralled from Rs50 lakh as reported last year to Rs60 lakh as is projected now.
But cost should not be an impediment to giving the project the green signal and finishing it in time for a band to perform at the Bandstand on Independence Day, as has been mooted.
Thanks to the Kala Ghoda festival and Mumbai’s hardworking conservationists, the beautiful Horniman Gardens has been reclaimed and re-used.The restoration of Cooperage Bandstand will hopefully pave the way for several other such.