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The tourism industry of India is economically important and growing rapidly. The World Travel & Tourism Council calculated that tourism generated ₹ 6.4 trillion or 6.6% of the nation's GDP in 2012. It supported 39.5 million jobs, 7.7% of its total employment. The sector is predicted to grow at an average annual rate of 7.9% from 2013 to 2023. This gives India the third rank among countries with the fastest growing tourism industries over the next decade. India has a large medical tourism sector which is expected to grow at an estimated rate of 30% annually to reach about ₹ 95 billion by 2015. According to provisional statistics 6.29 million foreign tourists arrived in India in 2011, an increase of 8.9% from 5.78 million in 2010. This ranks India as the 38th country in the world in terms of foreign tourist arrivals. Domestic tourist visits to all states and Union Territories numbered 1,036.35 million in 2012, an increase of 16.5% from 2011. The most represented countries are the United States (16%) and the United Kingdom (12.6%). In 2011 Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Delhi were the most popular states for foreign tourists. Domestic tourists visited the states Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu most frequently. Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Agra have been the four most visited cities of India by foreign tourists during the year 2011. Worldwide, Chennai ranked 41 by the number of foreign tourists, while Delhi is ranked at 50, Mumbai at 57 and Agra at 65 and Kolkata at 99. The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013 ranks India 65th out of 144 countries overall. The report ranks the price competitiveness of India's tourism sector 20th out of 144 countries. It mentions that India has quite good air transport (ranked 39th), particularly given the country’s stage of development, and reasonable ground transport infrastructure (ranked 42nd). Some other aspects of its tourism infrastructure remain somewhat underdeveloped however. The nation has very few hotel rooms per capita by international comparison and low ATM penetration. As per the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, December 2013, India’s rank in the World Tourism Receipts during 2012 was 16th and rank in international tourist arrivals was 41. The rank of India was 7th among Asia and the Pacific Region in terms of tourism receipts during 2012. The Ministry of Tourism designs national policies for the development and promotion of tourism. In the process, the Ministry consults and collaborates with other stakeholders in the sector including various Central Ministries/ agencies, State Governments, Union Territories and the representatives of the private sector. Concerted efforts are being made to promote new forms of tourism such as rural, cruise, medical and eco-tourism. The Ministry also maintains the Incredible India campaign. India's rich history and its cultural and geographical diversity make its international tourism appeal large and diverse. It presents heritage and cultural tourism along with medical, business, educational and sports tourism. Therefore the practitioners, academicians and researchers need to meticulously review these aspects and acquaint them with knowledge to sustain in such scenarios. Thus, these evident scenarios emphasize the need of a broad-based research in the field of Tourism in India. This book is an attempt in that direction. I sincerely hope that this book will provide insights into the subject to faculty members, researchers and students from the Tourism institutes, consultants, practicing managers from industry and government officers. Prof. K.VijayaBabu Jayaprakashnarayana. G
To Commemorate The Golden Jubilee Celebration Of Our Freedom, Eminent Indians Have Taken Pains To Contribute Articles To This Book. Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, Dr. M.S. Gill, Shri S.R. Bommai, Shri C.V. Ranganathan, Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar, Shri Inder Malhotra, Air Chief Marshal S.K. Sareen, Admiral Tahiliani, Lt. Gen. M.L. Chibber, Lt. Gen. V.K. Nayar, Shri K.F. Rustamji, Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer, Capt. M.S. Kohli, Shri Vijay Karan, Shri A.K. Tandon, Shri M.B. Kaushal, Sh. P.S. Krishnan, Sh. K.Srinivasan, Smt. Mohini Giri, Dr. Subhash Kashyap & Many Others Have Contributed The Informative Articles In Their Respective Fields. The Articles On The Three Defence Forces And Para-Military Forces Explain In Detail The Multi-Faceted Developments That Took Place In These Areas After Independence. To Enhance The Utility Of The Volume Further, Important Speeches Of Great Leaders Like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Smt. Indira Gandhi And Shri Rajiv Gandhi Have Been Included.
Tourism has long been a neglected sector for the government of India. Earlier, it was considered to be an elitist activity and the socialist dispensation of the official establishment coaxed it to put on the back burner. The advent of globalization and the market forces brought India on the world tourism map. Both the hospitality and the travel industries revamped its utility and there appears to be a phenomenal growth in infrastructure and services for the world traveles. This book also points out the conspicuous absence of the domestic traveler for long. This book raises all possible issues in Indian tourism and suggests ways and means how Indian philosophy of Vasudhev Kutumbkam (World is a family). The salient feature of the book are the travelogues that will expose the Indian reader to a global world-view that provides him the pleasure of travel while sitting at home.
Bill Gates of Microsoft identified tourism as one of the three major industries of the future. With the projected arrival of 1.6 billion tourists by 2020 generating tourist receipt of US $ 2000 billion, creating one job every 2.5 seconds, tourism, today, has emerged as one of biggest industries of the future. India offers, as is often said, the World in one place -with tremendous variety that provides everyone. What is the present scenario of tourism development in India? What is India s position in the global scenario? How is India prepared to participate in the great tourism boom of the 21st century? The book INDIAN TOURISM BEYOND THE MILLENNIUM by a person, who has an inside view of the development of tourism in India, delves into these and many other pertinent questions. As India prepares to enter the new millennium, the book traces the history of tourism development in India, the constraints that limit its growth and the issues that may fashion the future. Replete with valuable statistical information, its incisive insight into the emerging trends, couple with commonsense prescription for the future, makes the book a must read for policy planners, researchers, students and the general public alike. The book takes us through the global scenario, the progress of Indian tourism as unfolded in the 50 years since Independence, the specific issues of ecology and sustainable development with reference to fragile areas like Ladakh an North-East India, the importance of public private partnership-in fact a kaleidoscope of all that you wanted to know about India tourism.