Domestic tourism expected to attract Rs 50,000 cr investment
The Dollar Business Bureau India’s domestic tourism sector is expected to attract an investment of around Rs 50,000 crore from 600 projects during the 3 day investors’ summit later this month. This was revealed to the media by the Union Minster for Tourism Mahesh Sharma, today. The minister claimed that India’s image as a tourist destination improved considerably outside the country with the visits of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said the country saw a growth upto 40% from tourists from those places that the PM had visited. The summit, Incredible India Tourism Investors Summit is to be inaugurated by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on 21st September. The Summit will have 144 investors from 70 countries confirming to attend the ...
Govt proposes to increase Indias share in foreign tourist arrival
Source: PIB, Government of India Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (I/C) for Tourism and Culture has said that the Ministry of Tourism has set up a target to achieve 1.00 % share of international tourist arrivals by 2016-17 which is at present 0.68%. He was addressing the Meeting of Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in New Delhi on Monday. The theme of the meeting for M/o Tourism was “Swadesh Darshan and PRASAD (Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive) Schemes” and the theme of M/o Culture was “Working of Zonal Cultural Centres. The Minister said that India’s rich cultural, historical, religious and natural heritage provides a huge potential for development of tourism and job creation. He said ...
