Russia, China Foremost on India's Tourism Radar

[Theparadox]

Foreign tourist arrivals in India had crossed the 10 million mark last year. The country aims to double the number in the next three years.

New Delhi (Sputnik): After successfully conducting road shows in the US to attract tourists to India, the country's tourism ministry is now aiming to woo the people of Russia, China and various Nordic countries with similar road shows.

"We are also going to have a big-time roadshow in China because it has the biggest tourist outflow. Last year, it had 144 million outbound tourists. India got only 2.5 lakhs of that so we are going to make moves so that the numbers go up dramatically," Minister for Tourism K J Alphons told a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.

A source told Sputnik that Russia is also among the countries being targeted by India's tourism ministry.

"We are in the process of finalizing the details of roadshows that will be conducted in various cities of Russia. Our assessment is that Russia has a good market for us. Therefore we are focusing to tap the tourist potential there," an official from the ministry of tourism, who wished to remain anonymous, told Sputnik.

India's tourism ministry is going to organize the first "Indian Tourism Mart" in September this year in New Delhi to bring together all stakeholders of the tourism industry.

"Through ITM (Indian Tourism Mart) we are trying to get the best buyers in the world and get them meet our sellers including state governments, tour operators, travel agents and other tourism industry stakeholders," Tourism Minister K J Alphons added.

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[Tshering22]

We are way way behind in this area thanks to poor planning and corrupt policies.

Given our cultural heritage, we can easily be among the top 5 tourist destinations on the planet.

We need to work on our back end projects first:

1- infrastructure improvement in cities, residential areas and commercial areas
2- ruthless action against criminals through harsh death sentences
3- tourism-awareness training to police officers who can politely help tourists
4- harsh pricing policies for taxis, autos, buses, museums, attractions where foreigners are ripped off; uniform prices will make them also feel welcome and equally respected. You don't see Europeans charging 10 euros from locals and 100 euros from Indian tourists.
5- better public hygiene; some of our most ancient cities are the dirtiest; varanasi, vrindavan, madurai etc have so much legacy and potential but are very very unclean. My state has achieved reasonable success in public hygiene but it needs to be replicated all over India.

 

[Śakra]

India is too dirty to get many tourists.