Mall owners and hoteliers asked to submit written suggestions for organsing Gurgaon shopping festival in December 2009

The Haryana Industry Department yesterday held a meeting with mall owners of Gurgaon district to deliberate on the proposed shopping festival on lines of the Dubai Shopping Festival. An official spokesman said during the meeting all mall owners were asked to submit their suggestions in writing regarding organising the shopping festival during the month of December, UNI has reported. These suggestions would be discussed with the Deputy Commissioner, Gurgaon and Administrator, HUDA, Gurgaon. All the mall owners promised their cooperation in the successful conduct of the proposed festival, he added.

Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary (Tourism) Keshni Anand Arora had put a proposal to conduct a shopping festival on the pattern of the Dubai festival in a meeting on May 22 with the mall and hotel owners of the district to attract foreign tourists to Gurgaon. He said efforts will be made to provide tourists all those things that were not available in Delhi to attract foreign tourists during Commonwealth Games in 2010. Besides, cultural programmes and sports activities for the entertainment of children would also be made available during the shopping festival, he added.