Anindo Dey, TNN, Dec 8, 2010, 03.10am IST
JAIPUR: Tourism in Pink City will never be the same again! Far from having to hop from shop to shop or spend time in eateries, tourists to the state capital will soon have a new destination. The City Palace is contemplating a night tourism package combined with food and entertainment.
According to Diya Kumari, a royal descendant, "We are in the primary stages of chalking out a plan for night tourism to the City Palace and the Jaigarh fort. What we have realised is that people come visiting the city for just two or three days and have to often finish off a tour of the Palace in a hurry as there are so many things that they have to see, besides finding time for shopping."
As a first step the City Palace plans to light up the entire premises professionally.
"We would be hiring a professional to light up the entire premises. We would be using energy-efficient lights, may be LEDs or even solar powered lights. We have targetted October 2011 as the deadline for night tourism to start," she says.
The plans are not only to let tourists come to the Palace at night but to offer them a package tour of the Jaigarh fort also, besides making provisions for entertainment at the palace and a meal.
To make the tour of the palace memorable, work has begun on providing a professionally- designed new museum in over 15,000 sq feet area. The deadline for this project is 2013.
"This will be a lifestyle-based museum. There will be space for each Maharaja in it that would take tourists through a tour of that time. The tourists will get a glimpse of things that prevailed then. It would be an interactive museum and not the traditional kind," she says.
Reputed museum designer Siddharth Ghosh has been assigned the work. Historical pieces from the Palace store as well as the those on display will be placed at the museum.
In fact, the City Palace in the first-of-a-kind move has begun work on documenting its collection of arms and armour, paintings, textiles and costume.
"There will be separate books on all these topics that we plan to compile over a period. We are in touch with a publisher for the book so that it can be sold the world over," she said.
The palace is in touch with Dr Robert Elgood for its books on arms and armour while Dr Chandramani Singh will be the editor for the book on textiles and costume.
"The idea is to upgrade the museum through all this work and get the younger generation feel interested by creating an awareness among them," she added.
Courtsey via The Times of India
According to Diya Kumari, a royal descendant, "We are in the primary stages of chalking out a plan for night tourism to the City Palace and the Jaigarh fort. What we have realised is that people come visiting the city for just two or three days and have to often finish off a tour of the Palace in a hurry as there are so many things that they have to see, besides finding time for shopping."
As a first step the City Palace plans to light up the entire premises professionally.
"We would be hiring a professional to light up the entire premises. We would be using energy-efficient lights, may be LEDs or even solar powered lights. We have targetted October 2011 as the deadline for night tourism to start," she says.
The plans are not only to let tourists come to the Palace at night but to offer them a package tour of the Jaigarh fort also, besides making provisions for entertainment at the palace and a meal.
To make the tour of the palace memorable, work has begun on providing a professionally- designed new museum in over 15,000 sq feet area. The deadline for this project is 2013.
"This will be a lifestyle-based museum. There will be space for each Maharaja in it that would take tourists through a tour of that time. The tourists will get a glimpse of things that prevailed then. It would be an interactive museum and not the traditional kind," she says.
Reputed museum designer Siddharth Ghosh has been assigned the work. Historical pieces from the Palace store as well as the those on display will be placed at the museum.
In fact, the City Palace in the first-of-a-kind move has begun work on documenting its collection of arms and armour, paintings, textiles and costume.
"There will be separate books on all these topics that we plan to compile over a period. We are in touch with a publisher for the book so that it can be sold the world over," she said.
The palace is in touch with Dr Robert Elgood for its books on arms and armour while Dr Chandramani Singh will be the editor for the book on textiles and costume.
"The idea is to upgrade the museum through all this work and get the younger generation feel interested by creating an awareness among them," she added.
Courtsey via The Times of India
Read more: Night tourism package for City Palace planned - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Night-tourism-package-for-City-Palace-planned/articleshow/7062030.cms#ixzz17WU9mbJI
