Goa Scam Alert: Calangute Panchayat Bans Toplite Holidays Pvt Ltd, Issues Notice

PANAJI: The Calangute Village Panchayat in North Goa has issued notices to hotels and properties in its jurisdiction not to allow an alleged scam company Toplite Holidays Pvt Ltd to set up shop in their premises.

Earlier Toplite Holidays Pvt Ltd was operating from the premises of the Neelam Grand Hotel at Calangute and subsequent to several complaints from duped or scammed tourists, the Neelam Grand terminated the leave and license agreement of Toplite Holidays Pvt Ltd.

Now the Calangute Panchayat has warned member hotels and resorts not to offer or sell office space to Toplite Holidays Pvt Ltd  due to the several complaints against the company.

Joseph Sequeira, Sarpanch of the Calangute Village Panchayat told media persons that his department has banned Toplite Holidays Pvt Ltd from setting up any office within the jurisdiction of the Panchayat due to the several complaints of fraud against the company.

According to several clients – complaints which abound online on the internet and on consumer forums, Toplite Holidays Pvt Ltd offers membership to unsuspecting tourists for a huge fee, promising them timeshare or similar bookings and stays in their member hotels.

However, after paying huge membership fees tourists are not given the promised holidays on some pretext or the other and are asked to pay additional amounts to avail of the discounts and special offers.

When tourists accuse the company of cheating, their agents block their phone numbers and refuse to answer their calls, in spite of having made huge payments to them.

We tried to contact Toplite Holidays for their comments, but were unable to reach them in spite of several attempts. We will update this post once Toplite Holidays responds to us.