Diphu : Come September. And the flowers of the tourism sector open out their petals and sepals. The six-month spread and stretch of the tourism season awakens from an equally long stupor. It is true everywhere from Toronto (Canada) to Titabor in Assam. Not surprisingly, there is a lax season in tourism even in tourist havens like Siam (Read Thailand).

But for the ones whose bread and butter is wildlife-based tourism in Assam, those six months of wait burn a big hole with the establishment and overhead costs accumulating. This makes the fledgling tourism industry very lopsidedly unsustainable for sure.

The wildlife reserves draw a record number of wildlife tourists as they are opened during the dry season.
And the monsoon induced wet season is not conducive to the conduct of tourism. This cannot be accepted as the norm if we have to make tourism sectors viable and sustainable.

Religious tourism with the Temple of Goddess Kamakhya is highly popular across the devotees in India and abroad.

The river tourism is a legion with a limited number of operators who cannot offer everything as the moods and the characteristics of the main river system of the Brahmaputra keep changing. High time, we reject the forced six months of inactivity and think in terms of activities rather than the wildlife viewing followed by an empty evening.