UNWTO’S BEST TOURISM VILLAGES
- It is a global initiative to highlight those villages where tourism preserves cultures and traditions, celebrates diversity, provides opportunities and safeguards biodiversity
- Recently, Pochampally Village in Telangana State has been selected as one of the best Tourism Villages by the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)
- Pochampally in Telangana is often referred to as the Silk City of India. This style, Pochampally Ikat, received a Geographical Indicator (GI Status) in 2004
- Pochampally is also known as BhoodanPochampally to commemorate the Bhoodan Movement that was launched by Acharya VinobhaBhave from this village in April, 1951