BALLOON FESTIVAL ARAKU
Today a light drizzle stopped the hot air balloon in its track. This morning's flying event was cancelled due to inclement weather. This evening a display of the balloons tethered (tied to the ground) and lit up will be displayed at NTR grounds. Visitors to the event were mainly Vizagites. It will be interesting to know how many real "tourists" came to the venue. I am not talking about the event organizers and the 15-20 foreigner balloonists. I am talking about genuine domestic or international tourists. Then divide the expenditure by the incremental number of tourists who visited and we will get a huge per tourist expenditure. The figure for expenditure is being mentioned as 5 crores. Say we got around 100 tourists that too is a generous figure. We will end up with something like 7L per tourist! Sounds awesome doesn't it? Incidentally this is all public money. That means your money and mine. Cheers. Don't just read this ... share it.