NEW DELHI: International trips from school could come to an end if Union minister Mahesh Sharma has his way. The Union minister for tourism, culture and civil aviation wants school trips to be limited to domestic destinations and has already discussed the issue with HRD minister Smriti Irani .“If our youth want to go to Malaysia, Dubai or Thailand, they should first explore our own nation’s beauty and culture. I proposed that we may include this in the curriculum that our students should visit our rich heritage, monuments, places of importance in school trips so that they can appreciate it," he said.The first time minister, who is also MP from Gautam Budh Nagar, said international destinations are over-hyped. “In Europe, they glamourize things. They sell it well, sometimes you may feel … where have I come? We haven’t been able to organize, display, promote and propagate our country that way," he said.The minister also lashed out at Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s demand that the Taj Mahal was Waqf Board property and should be handed over to it. “The Taj is a national monument not a Waqf property. The issue is before the court. If some organization feels that the Taj is theirs, they need to readdress it (their demand)," he said.The minister has also elaborated a three-phase plan to refurbish all monuments. Monuments of international importance like the Taj will be in the first phase, the second phase will include monuments that are important in the domestic circuit and the third phase will include those monuments that are unexplored.The ministry plans to clean up the monuments, provide security and guides. “We propose to secure our monuments. If state security is not available we will use tourism police," Sharma said. The ministry also proposed to provide “end-to-end tourism" and is finding ways to make women tourists feel secure with the help of technology including GPS taxis and qualified guides at monuments.