Tourism Ministry lost in translation

While the government is hell-bent on ending the ongoing travel restrictions by October 1 and revive the tourism industry, the Ministry responsible to oversee all tourism-related government initiatives has failed at one thing that is critical for communication. The Tamil version of the Tourism Ministry’s official website has so many errors to the extent that numbers are lost if one is to count them.

The translations are very poor with ‘broken grammar’ and even the profiles of Ministers and senior officials at the Ministry are misspelt and in some cases, words missing.

Apart from the local tourists, Indian tourists- particularly from South India make up a significant per cent of total tourist arrivals into the country. Therefore it is vital that these guidelines and necessary information should be in Tamil as well.