kolkata traditional toys crafted for generations in four villages of rural bengal will get a panindia stage when their stories are showcased by indiatourism on world tourism day this sunday with the focus on rural tourism this year toys stories from natungram in burdwan panchmura and bikna in bankura and ghurni in nadia would be part of our tourism campaign said a senior indiatourism officer wooden toys of natungram terra cotta toys of panchmura clay toys of ghurni and dokra toys and artefacts of bikna are all well known hundreds of domestic and foreign tourists visit these villages and buy the artefacts yet no one stays in and around the villages to explore and experience how these original indigenous art is practised the ministry of tourism was now attempting to develop an ecosystem so that investment came to develop ecotourism in and around the industries without violating essential character of these places said a ministry of tourism official indiatourism kolkata will conduct a series of live sessions on social media on rural toy stories and how tourism can be woven around these industries indiatourism kolkata will conduct a social media live facebook page of indiatourism kolkata on tourism rural development with banglanatokcom unwto partner in india as cultural partner and act as conservation partnerworld tourism day will coincide with paryatan parv2020 and dekho apna desh campaign from september 27 to 30 in kolkata siliguri dooars sittong takdah in bengal bhubaneswar in odisha patna in bihar and port blair in andaman and nicobar indiatourism kolkata will participate in rural tourism award function of himalayan hospitality and tourism development network on sunday in siliguri