Tourists

The Auroville Visitors Centre is Auroville’s reception and information disseminating centre for the often thousands of tourists and visitors coming to Auroville daily.

Jearaj and Ganesh have worked at Inside India, Auroville’s travel agency, for the last six years. They both hail from semi-urban educated backgrounds, and consciously chose to shift from city jobs to working in Auroville.

The article on Managing Tourism that appeared in Auroville Today # 354 of January 2019 contains an erroneous income figure from the Visitors’ Centre Parking.

The community has no policy regarding how to handle tourism. Recently, visiting students studied the situation and made some recommendations.

Hello Aurovilians, Sub: The Tourism Challenge in the May 2018 issue # 346. This question from you: Does it help or harm us? But what about the opposite?