CALANGUTE: Calangute MLA Michael Lobo has urged tourism stakeholders to get themselves vaccinated against Covid-19 at the earliest so that the industry, which is in the doldrums, can be restarted by October.
Speaking to media persons at Calangute on Friday, Lobo said that taxi drivers are the first contact with tourists at the airport or railway stations, and hence they need to be vaccinated by the time the tourism sector resumes.
“I’ve been told that very few taxi drivers are coming forward for vaccination in Calangute and Candolim.
In fact, they should have been the first to come.
I urge all taxi owners and drivers to get themselves vaccinated,” Lobo said.
“We’re all dependent on tourism and we need all stakeholders like watersports operators, shack owners and workers, everybody in the tourism industry, to get vaccinated as soon as possible so that we can restart the industry in October,” he said.
He also urged all the youth working in the tourism and hospitality industry and those staying in the coastal tourism belt to also get themselves inoculated.