Arvind Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, has highlighted that this year’s budget advocates a shift from department centric and scheme centric approach to a destination centric approach for planning, development and management of tourism.

K. S. Srinivas IAS, Principal Secretary – Tourism & Fisheries, Government of Kerala, has said that the carrying capacity of each destination should be considered and tourists should be allowed accordingly. He was speaking at the post budget webinar organised by MOT recently.

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G Kishan Reddy, Union Minister of Tourism & Culture, thanked the attendees of the post budget webinar by saying that the government must work shoulder to shoulder with the private sector to develop tourism in India, which is a huge nation and large population.

Arvind Singh, Secretary, Tourism, said at the MOT webinar that Public private partnerships can be realized in various segments of tourism ranging from accommodation transportation, food development of attractions, adventure and recreational activities.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in MOT’s post budget webinar mentioned the Kankaria lake project in Ahmedabad, Gujarat where the redevelopment of the lake and skill development for those working in the food stalls was carried out. “Every tourist destination can also develop its own revenue model,” he said.

Sunil B Satyawakta, Director, Civica Travels (Uttar Pradesh), has said that Modi has been his favourite for his vision and in depth understanding of tourism and its potentials. “His address to Indian community and to the world on 28th September 2014 at Madison Square Garden, New York showed his brilliant understanding on tourism in India. His appeal to every Indian to bring at least five foreigners to India could have been anyone’s guess but was real motivating as it came from the Prime Minister himself. Coming to his post budget webinar address on boosting India’s tourism potential where the emphasis is on pushing the states to involve students and promoting selected 50 destinations can be a game changer. To add to it, the states should make Students’ Tours a part of their curriculum and marks should be given on the students’ write-ups about their study cum pleasure tours,” he added.

Alex Ellis, British High Commissioner to India, revealed in a tweet that last year UK issued 2,836,490 visas, of which 25 per cent went to India, which is more than to any other country in the world.

Under a deal, Singapore Airlines will inject further SGD 360 million (USD 267 million) into Air India. It will give SIA a 25.1% stake in the group following its takeover by Tata and merger with Vistara Airlines.

PATA research titled Asia Pacific Visitor Forecasts 2023-2025 has revealed that travels within AsiaPacific will continue to dominate in the region. International Visitor Arrivals in Asia-Pacific will return to roughly similar 2019 proportions (82.09%) by 2025 (82.38% in a medium scenario).