6th To 8th December
We have tried to successfully organize the sixth edition of the Himalayan Orange Tourism Festival 2024 in Kolkata again with your cooperation.
Orange Tourism Festival 2024 in Kolkata with your support. The dates are 6th, 7th and 8th December, 2024, at Salt Lake Sector 1, Kolkata City Centre. This will be the first-of-its-kind mega event in rural tourism worldwide. Every day, we will be open from 12 noon to 9 pm, showcasing the rich heritage and rural initiatives of tourism and homestays.
This rural tourism and homestay movement, which was started by the Association for Conservation and Tourism (ACT) from the Bengal and Sikkim Himalayas about three decades ago and has now taken the forefront, has further impacted the landscapes of Eastern Nepal, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh and all the surrounding areas. Through tourism ownership, the villagers have regained pride in their agriculture and related heritage. ACT has helped them realise the value
of their cultural and natural heritage through this movement. The connection of all this with the urban market has become more than necessary, and there can be no better patron than Kolkata, a city where every soul is a born tourist. It was easy for tourism in the Himalayan region to converge in Kolkata, where the residents have immense love for the region and hence the initiative of the Himalayan Orange Tourism Festival was taken up in 2014. The next festival was organised in 2016, followed by festivals in 2018, 2021 and 2022. This year we organised the sixth edition of the festival in Kolkata which has now taken the form of an international festival.
