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Tourism is defined as short-term travel for leisure, business, or recreation, and encompasses domestic, inbound, and outbound tourism. India is a rapidly growing tourist destination, recognized for its rich heritage and historical significance, but faces challenges such as inadequate infrastructure, safety concerns, and health issues affecting tourist inflow. The government has introduced a tourism policy emphasizing welcome, information, facilitation, security, cooperation, infrastructure, and cleanliness to improve the tourism sector.
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- 2. • Tourism is the travel for recreational (fun), leisure (rest), family or business purposes, usually of a limited duration.
- 3. • Tourism is commonly associated with trans-national travel, but may also refer to travel to another location within the same country. • Temporary, short-term movement of people to destination outside their resident places.
- 4. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people “traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes”.
- 5. • 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.
- 6. • 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.
- 7. The number of FTAs in India during: • 2010: 5.78 million • 2011: 6.29 million • 2012: 3.76 million The number of foreign tourist arrivals in the country in 2013 showed an increase of about 4.1 % over 2012.
- 9. • 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.
- 10. • 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.
- 11. • 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. • The increasing Naxalite activities and constant Maoist attacks in the country is not helping the cause either. • 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. • Increasing competition from other exotic countries. Ex- Singapore, Hong Kong etc.
- 12. • History Tourism • Adventure Tourism • Medical Tourism • Eco System • Cultural Tourism • Pilgrimage Tourism • Spiritual Tourism • Beach Tourism
- 13. • Maharashtra • Tamil Nadu • Delhi • Uttar-Pradesh • Rajasthan • West Bengal • Bihar • Kerala • Karnataka • Himachal Pradesh
- 14. • Uttar Pradesh • Andhra Pradesh • Tamil Nadu • Karnataka • Maharashtra • Madhya Pradesh • Rajasthan • Uttarakhand • West Bengal • Gujarat
- 17. It is located near Leh in beautiful Ladakh is known to possess strong magnetic properties which have the strength to pull cars up-hill.
- 18. It is a village located about 35 km from Ahmednagar of Maharashtra. The uniqueness of this small village is that none of the houses in this village has doors or even a door frame, including the commercial buildings, schools etc for safety.
- 19. Vihigaon falls in Kasara Mumbai. (Height-120 ft.)
- 20. One of the India’s spookiest and the haunted ruins lies in Bhangarh, Alwar district in the state of Rajasthan.
- 21. It is in Khasi Hills of Meghalaya.
- 23. 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)