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Terrible 'terror tourism' in Mumbai
For a year now, unofficial tourist operators have been making up to Rs 2,500 per client selling tragedy to tourists
The storming of the now deserted Nariman House (Chabad House) of the Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement, by Islamist gunmen one year ago left six Jews dead.True, the terrorist attacks have significantly reduced tourism to Mumbai this year, but a micro-industry calling itself "terror tourism" has spawned in its wake.
Mumbai's unofficial, unlicensed, self-styled tour operators and guides, you know the dozens that pester you to see this and buy that, are picking up tourists "by air-conditioned mini-buses or taxis from convenient locations like Churchgate or the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) or even their hotels nearby, and [taking them] around to Nariman Point, Colaba, then to CST and up to Chowpatty, covering all the 13 sites the Pakistani terrorists attacked on November 26, 2008," says a Hindustan Times article.
"Yes, we have heard of such alleged guided tours but these are not recognized and are done by fly-by-night operators," Serena Franklin, president of Tourist Guides Association of Mumbai, which is recognized by the central tourism ministry, told HT.
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