Hornbill Competition showcases the culture, heritage, meals and customs of Naga tribes and men and women from these tribes arrive jointly to celebrate their traditions with colourful dance performances. Termed the Hornbill celebration as the “festival of festivals”, he said the once-a-year programme delivers all the 17 tribes of the condition on a platform and facilitates promotion of their culture to the rest of the entire world.

Naga tribesmen sit with their weapons at the yearly Hornbill festival in Nagaland. The festival is celebrated each yr in the very first 7 days of December. It is a exceptional pageant of the armed service tribes from the North-eastern location, and is also referred to as the ‘festival of festivals’. (Resource: Convey Picture by Deepak Shijagurumayum)

“Nagaland is recognized as the land of festivals as every single tribe has its possess traditions, language and lifestyle and these are celebrated during the year through diverse seasons of the agricultural calendar. “This competition is not only an once-a-year cultural affair but also a window to working experience the unique id and legacy of our prosperous Naga traditions,” the tourism advisor explained. The Hornbill festival has been showcasing the lifestyle of Nagaland for the previous 21 a long time and giving prospects for entrepreneurs to improve, he claimed.

It has promoted the state’s tourism and similar companies, he explained. More than 1.12 lakh tourists arrived to Nagaland in the course of the Hornbill pageant in 2016, while 2.82 lakh travellers frequented in 2019. The festival was celebrated pretty much very last calendar year, amid the surge in COVID-19 scenarios in the nation. Citing a review on the economic impact of the festival, he mentioned an investment of Rs 7 crore in the 2018 Hornbill pageant translated into a profits era of Rs 45 crore.

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