India, March 27 -- The Goa Tourism Department has made it mandatory from April 1 for hotels in the state to upload data about its guests to a web-based software to help the department generate "real time data analytics" of tourists in the state.

Tourism minister Rohan Khaunte said hotels and guest houses would have to mandatorily feed guest data including parameters such as age, country of origin of foreign visitors, and state for domestic visitors, duration of stay, purpose of visit. and occupancy data.

"The Tourist Information Management Enterprise (TIME) software will be mandatory for all hotels starting April 1, ensuring comprehensive data collection on tourist arrivals in the state," Khaunte said.

According to the department, the ...