Ahmedabad, 24 January 2012

“I do not remember traveling through a State as extensively as the one I work on in such a limited time. Gujarat has been a revelation to me of culture and dress and food and custom and wondrous stories of the times,” Bollywood badshah Amitabh Bachchan said in his blog today.

Bachchan in his latest blog post talked about the migratory birds of Kutch, ‘Gando baval’, a ride of Royal Enfield Bullet bike, a visit to handicraft village, road journey to Rajkot with convoy, arrival at Rajkot in private jet and 3 hours driving to Junagadh from Rajkot.

Bachchan mentioned that he had forgotten to bring binocular while venturing into the birds area.

Bachchan said, ” thanks to the most generous publicity done by some of the very large and kind media presence, all the villages that we drove through had masses of people lining up on the side of the street, cheering us on which was such a rewarding gesture !”

Narrating the importance of tourism, Bachchan said, “the tourism campaign has been a massive boon to the locals and what they were going to earn with great difficulty in an year, they were able to get that within a month, during the festival times and the general increase of the tourist population. Tourism has been a huge earner for any country or city or place of interest….American tourism has dropped from almost 16%, to a meagre 7%. Spain is trying to boost its economy through the path of enhanced tourism, and here in Gujarat thanks to this wonderful campaign, the percentage increase as I said earlier is bigger than in any other part of the country, and indeed greater than the National Campaign of ‘Incredible India’ …”

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