Staff Correspondent
Port Blair, Mar 09: There was a time when Tourism Department had posted a Manager at Havelock Island’s Dolphin Resort, considering the growth of tourism in the picturesque Island. At that point of time there was only a police outpost at Havelock Island and Forest Guards used to represent Forest Department.
Today the Police Department has posted on Dy.S.P and Forest Department has posted one DFO at Havelock Island. Instead of growing the Tourism Department has fallen weak in Havelock. Now the Dolphin Resort is being run by an Assistant Manager. When other departments are growing the Tourism department is reducing the number of staffs in Havelock Island for reasons unknown.
Latest update is that now the Tourism Department is planning to appoint a Manager from outside with a consolidated pay to look after the Dolphin Resort and rest all other staffs will be outsourced. For name sake only one staff will be posted from Tourism Department at Dolphin to oversee daily affairs.
Havelock is hotspot of Andaman Tourism hence instead of calling back staffs the Tourism Department should have send more staffs in Havelock Island. Tourists have been demanding to set up an grievance desk at Havelock so that small and big issues of tourists can be sorted out at Havelock Island itself but no such steps have been taken up yet by the Tourism Department.
