panaji senior bjp party functionary rajendra arlekar on monday said the government should not permit events such as sunburn klassique in the statedo we really need events like sunburn klassique to promote tourism can we not redefine our priorities in this sector lets ponder arlekar tweeted on monday morningspeaking to toi arlekar said he fails to understand what the state achieves from allowing such events except for money i dont think the state gets anything in fact we are losing everything with such types of events which are leading to bad habits the former speaker said i demand that the government should not give permission for sunburn klassique and other such events in the state said the former mla who lost the pernem constituency to tourism minister manohar ajgaonkar in the 2017 electionswe are promoting bad things in the name of beach tourism and this should stop arlekar said adding that knowledgeable people should sit together and decided about how the state should go about promoting tourism further he said that instead of restricting tourism and related activities to just the beach stretches ideas such as cultural tourism and hinterland tourism could also be promoted im not blaming the government but this alternative thinking process should have been started a long time ago now at least we should start thinking about promoting tourism in new ways and work towards implementing it he saidarlekar also said many people are now hesitant to visit the state due to its disrepute