Goa, despite being a tourist state and having mass appeal and attracting millions of tourists every year, did not have a transparent taxi business till August last year as per a report in Navhindtimes.

To overcome the negative publicity Goa was getting because of the unfair practices of taxi owners the government introduced GoaMiles, an app-based taxi service promoted by GTDC. The introduction of the service has helped the state lessen some of the negative publicity as far as taxi services were concerned and driven confidence among tourists and locals.

GoaMiles today claims to have around 1,450 taxis registered under its service and has been doing good business, indicating that the service is catching up. An increasing number of tourists staying in hotels are using GoaMiles taxis owing to its fair and transparent system rather than the taxis which park themselves at the hotels and other places.