In 2007, WMF and American Express awarded a Sustainable Tourism grant to the historic city of Delhi to create a network of heritage routes that highlight Delhi’s rich history, helping to sustain it for the future.
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In 2007, WMF and American Express awarded a Sustainable Tourism grant to the historic city of Delhi to create a network of heritage routes that highlight Delhi’s rich history, helping to sustain it for the future.
As the city prepares for the XIX Commonwealth Games in October 2010, during which an expected 5.5 million visitors (2 million foreign, 3.5 million domestic) will travel to Delhi, the Delhi Chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) has developed a plan to present Delhi as a “Heritage City.” INTACH has completed a project report for the Delhi Heritage Route that features landscape design upgrades and improved signage for the monuments along the segment from the Humayun’s Tomb to the Red Fort. The Heritage Route extends across an approximate distance of six miles and will connect the various heritage sites along the route.
This project will address individual monuments and develop a framework to guide heritage conservation, urban development, tourism growth, and infrastructure planning in the Delhi Heritage Route area. Clean-energy shuttle buses along the route will streamline the flow of visitors and reduce congestion in a city plagued by traffic jams and smog. The project also includes walking guides, site brochures, and improved visitor amenities—education centers, street furniture, and lighting—that use environmentally responsible design. In addition, some thirty guides will be trained to give heritage walks. The projects will be completed next fall, in time for the hosting of the Commonwealth Games.
