nashik mela biggest religious congregation taking place in nashik after 12 years will only in revenue for the government but also provide a plethora of earning for the locals take for instance manjusha gaurkar a 34 old housewife who was shortlisted for the training programme the maharashtra tourism development corporation it is the time in four and a half years that manjusha stepped out her home to make an extra buck by advantage the ongoing mela festivities in her with a large number of tourists expected to in the city during the mela the mtdc in need of extra hands to the demand and generate high revenues during tourist season therefore it a guide training programme from 6 to 11 44 tourist guides including five from nashik bhandardhara nandgaon amalner were trained by the indian institute of tourism travel management the now ready to show the best spots nashik to visiting city during the mela their names and will be displayed the website of the mtdc and will also be provided and travel the participants who were not comfortable speaking hindi were trained in the language during week long workshop we undertook number field trips to provide them hands on training said manager of mtdc narrating her experience the workshop manjusha i felt very happy to the call letter from mtdc the training transformed us every positive way and we feel confident about doing our job as tourist guides besides getting the opportunity to learn spots in nashik i want to make a career in this field another mtdc tourist who has worked in a bank for 19 years collects tourism related material as a hobby and 35000 such collections after the training i can take tourists to many unexplored areas in said bhurkud who is an agro tourism centre in peth a history research scholar and a student of said that on hiring them as tourist guides tourists would want to come the city again again we learnt to correct information in few words providing accurate factual is important we learnt more during the six day training in a year diploma course there are many unexplored churches and temples in nashik would love to explore said rawal asawari wani a management student said that she gained confidence learnt proper body language and public speaking through the m in this field for five but got my concepts on tourism cleared only during six day training programme said nagmote another participant of the workshop gauri shirsathe who is the business of travel and tourism management said that she participated in the training programme for additional knowledge