INDIA - Islands in Andaman region being readied for tourism

India is to open 15 islands in the remote Andaman archipelago, developing a total of 50 new sites in the northern cluster of islands, 1,200 kilometres off mainland India.
“These sites have been selected so that environmentally-sensitive hotels and beach resorts can be set up under our tourism plan,” Andaman’s Tourism chief Dharam Pal told media. As per the information available, only 36 of the more than 500 islands in the archipelago, closer to Indonesia than India, are inhabited.

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