Rajasthan News: Jaisalmer district has its personal particular id within the vacationer map of Rajasthan. Here, camel safari, jeep experience and different journey actions on the sand dunes appeal to vacationers quite a bit. Also, the resorts constructed like dream palaces on the sand shores fascinate the thoughts. It is claimed {that a} tour right here is incomplete with out spending the evening in these resorts constructed amidst the velvety shores of Sam. This is the rationale that yearly enterprise price Rs 200-250 crore is finished by means of this metropolis. But when vacationers attain Some Sand Dunes of Jaisalmer, all their imaginations are dashed, as a result of they don’t discover something on the spot within the resort the place that they had booked. After reaching there, they arrive to know that they’ve turn into victims of fraud. These circumstances are nearly doubling yearly.
Actually 150 tents, 400 tents listed on-line
Around 150 resorts have been constructed on the bottom close to Jaisalmer, a few of that are luxurious, some medium and a few are completely price range tents. But if you go to any aspect for on-line reserving, you will note a complete of greater than 400 tents listed. Now it’s essential to have understood that round 250 tents are listed just for dishonest. For this cause, there’s a risk of vacationers turning into victims of fraud to a terrific extent. These on-line frauds are performed so clearly that the vacationer can not even perceive.
A resort constructed within the desert of Sam.
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Tourists have gotten victims of fraud by mistaking them for particular presents
When you go to the net aspect, you will note photographs of luxurious resorts and the charges will probably be mentioned to be fairly cheap and even decrease. Will present availability of tents there even throughout peak season. Most of the folks contemplate it as a suggestion and e-book it on the identical time, for which vacationers make advance fee of 20 to 50 p.c and typically even one hundred pc. But once we attain there, neither does anybody attend the decision on the resort quantity, neither is the talked about location close by.
Tourists having fun with camel safari in Sama desert.
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NDTV Rajasthan visited floor zero and investigated
To expose this technique of dishonest, NDTV Rajasthan correspondent Shrikant Vyas went to floor zero and recorded each little factor on his digital camera. First of all he booked a resort on-line. But earlier than making the advance fee, name the quantity given on the web site. But nobody picked up the cellphone. After this, Srikanth reached Sam metropolis along with his cameraman, the place he talked to folks related to the tourism enterprise, through which he gave details about many such circumstances.
Case Study-1:
While speaking to NDTV Rajasthan, Ghulam, proprietor of Desert Valley Resort of Some Sand Dunes, mentioned that final yr a household was cheated. He had come right here to go to round Diwali. He noticed the photographs of luxurious resorts on the net reserving aspect, and when he appreciated them, he booked 3 tents, for which he paid about Rs 2 lakh 85 thousand on-line. But when the vacationers reached there and referred to as the resort quantity discovered on-line, there was no response. Tourists had been wandering and getting back from Sam. Then he noticed the resort whose photographs had been posted. But his reserving was not performed there. However, Sam Welfare Society got here collectively to assist them and received them to remain in Sam at an inexpensive fee.
Kailash Vyas, President of Well Fair Society
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Case Study-2:
The identical occurred with Sam’s luxurious resorts ‘Le Royal Camp’ and ‘Hines Desert Camp’. When a giant rip-off was performed by importing the photographs of those resorts on the aspect of another faux resort. Tourists made reserving on the premise of picture, however nobody was attending the cellphone from the place the reserving was made. Camp proprietor Bhairav Singh advised that vacationers had seen photographs of our resort. When nobody picked up the cellphone he received apprehensive. Some passer-by noticed the picture and despatched it to our resort. When the vacationers reached the resort, at first the vacationers couldn’t perceive. He mentioned that the fee was made after seeing the resort right here, however the identify was completely different. People of Some Welfare Society got here collectively and helped him. While giving details about this incident, the tourism businessman seemed fairly harm. He mentioned that such an incident tarnishes the picture of Sama. Besides, businessmen like us are additionally getting defamed. The vacationer additionally feels cheated.
Tourism businessman Bhairav Singh
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Demand for prevention by submitting memorandum to the collector
Kailash Vyas, President of Some Welfare Society, spoke to NDTV Rajasthan, through which he described the fact right here in a picturesque view in a camel cart hooked up to the ‘ship of the desert’. Vyas advised that there are solely 150 resorts within the area. But greater than 400 are seen on completely different on-line web sites. In reality, for those who look on-line, a resort is seen on the vacant land. At some locations the situation is of Jaisalmer Fort, at some locations the situation has not been entered in any respect. In such a state of affairs, the vacationers coming right here have gotten victims of fraud by reserving resorts on-line. This is spoiling the picture. To stop this, Sam Camp and Resort Welfare Society has submitted a memorandum to Collector Pratap Singh demanding strict motion in opposition to on-line faux resorts in Sam.
Krishna Kumar Punia, Assistant Director of Jaisalmer Tourism Department.
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Tourism division will take motion in opposition to faux resorts
Assistant Director of Jaisalmer Tourism Department, Krishna Kumar Punia, in a particular dialog with NDTV Rajasthan, mentioned that many such inns and resorts are working in Jaisalmer which don’t exist in actuality, on account of which the vacationers coming right here need to face issues. One has to turn into a sufferer of fraud. In this regard, all of the resort, camp and resort operators have been knowledgeable to arrange details about their resort, camp and resort on a easy utility type and make it compulsorily obtainable on the Tourist Welcome Center situated on Gadisar Road. So that bodily verification certificates of truly working inns, camps and resorts could be issued in the very best method. Action will probably be initiated to take away inns, camps and resorts working on-line with out bodily verification certificates from the net platform.
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