India, a land of eternal heritage has sixth largest number of World Heritage assets in the World. One such world heritage asset is the 116 years old ‘Kalka-Shimla Train’, representing India’s rich heritage, symbolizing an engineering marvel and offering an ‘out of the world’ experience. The 96 km long Railway line...
"Cruise Tourism is one of the fastest growing components of the leisure industry worldwide. Thirty million passengers are expected to travel on cruise during 2019 world over. India, which has tremendous potential to become a global hub for cruise tourism in the years to come, has lately created a buzz all...
“Tourism Sector, globally, is primarily driven by the private sector with Government acting as a facilitator and a hand holder. The optimal model is that Government should engage itself in formulating policies, aimed at openness and easy access; seamless travel; building core infrastructure viz roads, rail and air connectivities; creating...
North India is blessed with huge repository of Nature, Heritage and Spiritual tourism. Jammu & Kashmir, with unimaginable natural beauty, Himachal Pradesh & Uttarakhand with snow-capped Himalayas, hills and forests and the 'City beautiful', Chandigarh are some of the illustrative examples of Nature Tourism in this region. The region is also a...
"India has earned a significant place in World’s Tourism Map because of its great potential to attract tourists to the diversity of tourist sites spread all over the country. What India requires now is greater ease of access, seamless connectivity, comfortable modes of travel, tourist friendly facilities at destinations, ease...
"Amongst various travel trends, spiritual and religious tourism has been growing in India at an unprecedented rate. Spiritual and Religious tourism today has almost 60 percent share in the total domestic tourist visits within India, which means that out of 180 crore domestic tourist visits, recorded during 2018, more than...
"India, in order to unfold its tourism potential and to position itself as a world leader in tourism will have to enhance its focus on integrated and all round development of infrastructure. The future tourism policy must therefore lay special emphasis on the issues of • Core infrastructure: namely, international openness,...
'New India' will see tourism sector growing much faster than many other sectors in the country. Tourism today, is a priority on India’s national political and economic agenda and has emerged as a major engine of economic growth and employment. As fastest growing economy in the world, India would also...
“With a vast coastline of 7500 kms, India has a beautiful seascape to tap the cruise tourism segment. The past one year has shown reasonable progress on all fronts towards developing cruise tourism in India…. Global Consultant appointed by Ministry of Shipping and Ministry of Tourism submitted the action plan...
“Collectors & District Magistrates of Districts, who are also designated as District Election Officers and Returning Officers, are key election officials, entrusted by law to lead the election machinery for effectually conducting Lok Sabha elections and to coordinate, supervise and monitor the entire election process…. They are also responsible for...
