Uttarakhand-Bali to join hands to boost tourism

Uttarakhand and Bali will be collaborating with each other in the fields of tourism, culture, capacity building, e-governance, human resource, environment, and health. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and Governor of Bali I Made Mangku Pastika signed a five-point Letter of Intent in this regard.
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After the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj said, “We will give a special welcome and honour those tourists who come here to get enriched with Yoga and spirituality.”
Speaking on this occasion, CM Rawat said that cooperation in fields of culture, tourism, environment, and health will help bring both the regions come closer. Bali is a popular tourist destination for Indian travellers and, in the past few years, Bali has registered record number of Indian tourists. Rawat even hopes that this agreement will help boost tourism in both India and Indonesia.


Regarding this move, Pastika mentioned that Bali is a state with Hindus in majority; in fact, around 90 percent of the residents are Hindus and, as per records, more than five thousand people from Bali visit Rishikesh and Haridwar every year. Also, a huge number of Balinese people follow the ‘Mahabharata’ and ‘Ramayana’ and practise Vedic rituals. Pastika also informed that Bali being a major tourist destination, records a footfall of 17,000 foreign tourists almost every day.

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Bali is an Indonesian state that has deep-rooted connection with Indian culture, and this agreement will likely work in the development and improvement of these regions.