{"id":3783,"date":"2003-12-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/12\/2003-12-12-konark-dance-festival-loses-shine\/"},"modified":"2003-12-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-12T12:00:00","slug":"2003-12-12-konark-dance-festival-loses-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/12\/12\/2003-12-12-konark-dance-festival-loses-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Konark Dance Festival Loses Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>KONARK, INDIA, December 7, 2003: The Konark dance festival in Orissa once attracted a huge number of tourists. But attendance is poor despite its awe-inspiring setting. An open air theater with the famous Sun Temple as its backdrop has been the site of the Konark Dance Festival organized by the government for the last 14 years. The idea is to attract tourists. However, with less than a hundred rooms available for dance troupes and tourists, the organizers say they have a tough time getting a full house for the festival. &#8220;The only difficulty in Konark is the absence of a star hotel. Once there is a star hotel more tourists will be there at Konark, they will be seeing this festival,&#8221; said Gopinath Mohanty, director of tourism, Orissa. Poor accommodations, bad roads, insufficient advertising, and sometimes even poor performances have prevented the Konark Festival from gaining stature. Dance critics who have been visiting the festival since its inception feel that the programs are geared towards pleasing the officials and VIPs instead of targeting tourists or dance lovers, says this article.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceKONARK, INDIA, December 7, 2003: The Konark dance festival in Orissa once attracted a huge number of tourists. But attendance,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}