Tourism in India

Taj Mahal in Agra

Tourism in Asian nation is economically necessary and is growing quickly. The World Travel & Tourism Council calculated that commercial enterprise generated ?8.31 100000 large integer (US$120 billion) or half dozen.3% of the nation's GDP in 2015 and supported thirty seven.315 million jobs, 8.7% of its total employment.  In October 2015, India's medical tourism sector was calculable to be price US$3 billion. It is projected to grow to $7-8 billion by 2020. In 2014, 184,298 foreign patients traveled to India to look for medical treatment.

About 22.57 million tourists arrived in Asian nation in 2014, compared to 19.95 million in 2013. This ranks India as the thirty eighth country within the world in terms of foreign traveler arrivals. Domestic tourist visits to all states and Union Territories numbered one,036.35 million in 2012, an increase of sixteen.5% from 2011. In 2014, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh were the foremost widespread states for tourists. Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Agra have been the four most visited cities of Asian nation by foreign tourists throughout the year 2011.

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The Travel & Tourism fight Report 2015 ranks Asian nation 52 out of 141 countries. The report ranks the price fight of India's commercial enterprise sector eighth out of 141 countries. It mentions that India has quite smart air transport (ranked 35th), particularly given the country’s stage of development and reasonable ground transport infrastructure (ranked 50th). The country also scores high on natural and cultural resources (ranked 12th). Some other aspects of its commercial enterprise infrastructure stay somewhat underdeveloped.

The Ministry of Tourism styles national policies for the development and promotion of commercial enterprise. In the process, the Ministry collaborates with other stakeholders in the sector as well as numerous Central Ministries/agencies, Union Territories and the representative of the private sector. Concerted efforts square measure being created to promote new types of commercial enterprise like rural, cruise, medical and eco-tourism.