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Travel and Tourism

Bajardi: 103-guruh talabasi Tursunaliyeva Diyora

What is tourism?

  • Tourism is the travel for recreational (fun), leisure (rest), family or business purposes, usually of a limited duration. Tourism is commonly associated with trans-national travel, but may also refer to travel to another location within the same country.

Who is a Tourist?

  • . Tourists are people traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes.

Tourism Industry in India

  • India as a tourism destination is the toast of the world at the moment.
  • Conde Nast ranked India amongst the top 10 tourist destinations
  • Travel and tourism industry is the second highest foreign exchange earner for India.

Forms of Tourism

  • Domestic Tourism: Domestic tourism is tourism involving residents of one country traveling only within that country.
  • Inbound Tourism: Incoming tourism is also known as 'inbound tourism'. Incoming tourism means travelers arriving in different countries from their own.
  • Outbound Tourism: Outbound tourism refers to residents to travel outside their home country.

Foreign tourist arrivals(FTAs) in India

  • The number of FTAs in India during:
  • 2010: 5.78m
  • 2011 : 6.31m
  • 2012 : 6.58m
  • 2013 : 6.97m
  • 2014 : 7.68m
  • 2015 : 8.03m
  • The number of foreign tourist arrivals in the country in 2015 showed an increase of about 4.6 % over 2014.

FTAs (% share) of top 10 Source countries in India in 2014

Weakness..

  • Insufficient standard hotels in the country leading to the problem of accommodation for the visiting tourists.
  • Lack of proper infrastructure.
  • Poor health, lack of hygiene and proper sanitation among majority of people especially in the rural parts of the country.
  • Incidents of local people harassing and torturing the visiting tourists especially the foreign tourists in different parts of the country.

Strength of India for tourism

  • Country of rich heritage and traditions having a vast and varied history.
  • Places of ancient civilization and settlements dating back to several centuries present in India.
  • Unity in Diversity i.e.. Multicultural people staying together in the same country.
  • One of the fastest growing economies of the world.
  • India has been maintaining good and cordial relationship with different countries which helps the people of those countries to get the visas easily to visit India.

Threats

  • Terrorism- Incidents like 26/11, 11/7 have an impact on the psyche of the visiting tourists.
  • These incidents dramatically reduces the foreign tourist arrivals in India.
  • Diseases in recent years such as Dengue, Chikungunya and Swine Flu are causing the tourists to stay away from visiting different parts of the country.

Different types of tourism in India

Initiatives taken by government to promote tourism

In the year 2002, the Government of India announced a New Tourism Policy. The policy is built around the 7-S Mantra of -

  • SWAAGAT (WELCOME)
  • SOOCHANAA (INFORMATION)
  • SUVIDHAA (FACILITATION)
  • SURAKSHAA (SECURITY)
  • SAHYOG (COOPERATION)
  • SANRACHNAA (INFRASTRUCTURE)
  • SAFAAI (CLEANLINESS)
  • They also adopted “atithi devo bhava” policy which is widely popular among people.

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