Today, September 27, is World Tourism Day. The United Nations (UN) website states that tourism today is a trillion dollar sector involving the movement of over one billion tourists a year around the world. In line with the 2013 United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation, the 2013 theme for World Tourism Day is Tourism and Water: Protecting our Common Future. While that is a global perspective of the tourism scenario, in Mumbai too, there are different events coming up to mark this tourism sector day.

Recently, this paper carried a report about how a portion of the world-renowned tourist site — the Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus was damaged because of some building repairs. The CST is a jewel in Mumbai’s tourism crown. Its facade continues to fascinate visitors and at several times, one can see tourists excitedly standing across the road and taking pictures of the station, enthralled by its exterior.