Ooty: Police need to have data on tourists staying in tourist lodges, hotels, cottages and resorts to track their travel history in the hills.
Arguing on these lines, S. Ananthakrishnan, Member of the Citizens’ Forum of Coonoor, said that even in the remote villages in and around the forest fringes in Nilgiris quite a few tourist cottages and resorts have sprouted in recent years. Unlike the registered hotels in the town limits, the tourists visiting these cottages and resorts in the remote areas are often go unnoticed. Those who are operating tourist cottages on home-stay concept without proper licence generally do not register the particulars of the tourists visiting their places in these type of tourist cottages in rural limits, he pointed out.
S. Ananthakrishnan
“With technology, the police can record the number of hotels, resorts and cottages being run and get a daily report about those who stay in those places, how long they will stay there, if they returned after sightseeing trips as tourists generally come to the hills would prefer daily sightseeing trips. If this is done, then it will become easy to keep a track on travel history of tourists,” he said.
This will also help the police to find out whether some anti-social elements hide in remote tourist cottages.
