India wins three prestigious travel awards

[SpArK]

India wins three prestigious travel awards​

Thursday, Dec 13, 2012

India has won three top tourism awards from the World Travel Awards (WTA), including for being the world's best destination.

Apart from winning the award for best destination, it also bagged the award for world's leading tourist board award for its "Incredible India" campaign and for world's leading tourist attraction for Taj Mahal, a world heritage site.

Accepting the award at an event here Wednesday evening, Tourism minister K. Chiranjeevi said the ministry has planned a "multi-pronged strategy to increase India's share in tourist arrivals".

"This includes development of world class infrastructure and manpower and undertaking aggressive promotional and marketing activities," the minister said.

He also said the ministry has launched the second phase of the Incredible India campaign where the focus was on destination and products to attract tourists to the country.

In 2011, 6.29 million tourists visited India as compared to 5.78 million in 2010.


The minister also said that tourism has become an instrument for sustainable development including poverty elimination, environmental regeneration and job creation in countries across the world.

The World Travel Award, considered to be the biggest awards in the travel industry, was for the first time held in Asia.


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[phylumchordata]

india needs to multiply that number by 10 to actually make tourism an impact on India masses.

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

india needs to multiply that number by 10 to actually make tourism an impact on India masses.

If we multiply it by 10 , we will become one the top 5 tourist attracting countries of the world.

Aim high but realistically for now. The short term aim must be to increase it to 10 million ASAP.

 

[agamdilawari]

 

[Hellraiser007]

Good going incredible India

 

[phylumchordata]

If we multiply it by 10 , we will become one the top 5 tourist attracting countries of the world.

Aim high but realistically for now. The short term aim must be to increase it to 10 million ASAP.

+1 .............

 

[Captain Spark]

india needs to multiply that number by 10 to actually make tourism an impact on India masses.

for that we'll need to improve our infrastructure a lot......specially railway stations, roads, airports etc....

 

[ashok321]

2010, total Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTA) in India were 5.78 million and India generated about 200 billion US dollars in 2008 and that is expected to increase to US$375.5 billion by 2018 at a 9.4% annual growth rate

Its quite big amount.

According to World Travel and Tourism Council, India will be a tourism hot-spot from 2009 to 2018, having the highest 10-year growth potential

 

[Arav_Rana]

This is good news. Hope Indian government ll work better to improve these no and at same time we should work to improve our service and safety of tourists. Our diversity is plus point. From kashmir to Goa we can provide almost every type of tourist spot