Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Life

Indian tourism industry targeting 11 million foreign arrivals

The 11 million figure is 1 percent of the global 1.1 billion international tourist arrivals. Sharma reported at a press conference that several reforms are on the anvil to help the tourism industry reach this figure.This will represent a 57 percent jump over the 6.58 million Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India in 2014. The corresponding number in 2013 was 6.15 million. Tourism foreign exchange earnings in India were $17.6 billion, 5.2 percent more than 2013’s $16.7 billion.

Foreign arrivals peaked in October with 656,000 arrivals, possibly due to a large number of tourists coming in for Diwali and Navaratri, two major Indian festivals. July and August saw the highest year-on-year growth at 12.9 percent and 16.9 percent, respectively, and 572,000 and 569,000 arrivals.

Sharma was speaking at a “Make in India” National Workshop on Tourism, Media, and Entertainment in New Delhi. Reforms include greater coordination among ministries, e-ticketing facilities, visa on arrival services for citizens of select nationalities, and theme-based travel circuits. “Five theme based-circuits i.e., Ganga, Krishna, Buddha, North East and Kerala circuits being developed by the Ministry of Tourism which has allotted Rs. 500 crore for the development of these circuits,” Sharma said. Medical and wildlife tourism are also set to get a boost with government support.

Tourism growth will see revenue boosts to India’s hospitality, handicrafts and transport industry, as well as to various small and medium enterprises.

Written By

You may also like:

World

Calling for urgent action is the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Business

The cathedral is on track to reopen on December 8 - Copyright AFP Ludovic MARINParis’s Notre-Dame Cathedral, ravaged by fire in 2019, is on...

Business

Saudi Aramco President & CEO Amin Nasser speaks during the CERAWeek oil summit in Houston, Texas - Copyright AFP Mark FelixPointing to the still...

World

Until the Second Coming of Jeffrey Epstein, you’ll just have to put up with economic realism.