India, Feb. 27 -- Goa's tourism industry has itself to blame for the decline of foreign tourists in the state by failing to showcase Goa's culture and cuisine and instead selling idli sambhar in beach shacks, Bharatiya Janata Party legislator and former minister Michael Lobo said on Thursday.

Addressing the media before meeting the chief minister to raise concerns of the state's hotel industry, Lobo, who also owns a string of tourism properties including starred hotels, said he would underline that the state needs to sort out the major issues -- garbage collection, stray dogs, clashes between taxi operators -- on priority failing which Goa's tourism sector will see "dark days ahead."

"We (the stakeholders) first have to accept that we h...