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As per the 3rd TSA (Tourism Satellite Account) for 2019-20, the contribution of tourism to employment of the country is 79.86 million, revealed G. Kishan Reddy, Minister of Tourism, Culture and DoNER in a written reply in Rajya Sabha. Tourism and Hospitality sector is one of the largest employments generating sector in India, he added.

The Ministry of Tourism has stated that the Swadesh Darshan 2.0 is aimed to enhance the experience of the tourists through a tourist-centric and destination-centric development approach to project planning and development. Its key principles are identified to achieve the vision of sustainable and responsible tourism. The intent is to enhance the contribution of tourism to the local economy and jobs.

In a report titled, ‘Role of Missions Globally for the growth of Tourism in India’ by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, it is recommended that the connectivity between the cities is required to enable the growth of MICE tourism in India.

In financial year 2021, the foreign direct investment equity inflow to the hotel and tourism industry in India was approximately 369 million U.S. dollars. This was a share of 2.21 percent of the FDI equity inflows into the service sector, revealed Statista.

Ajay Bhatt, Minister of State, Tourism, has said that tourism has a huge potential in the country. “We have endeavored to ensure that the tourists get the best facilities and infrastructure while they tour the country. Whenever we get a request regarding facilities, etc. from a concerned department, we ensure it is disposed of at the earliest. The police personnel are also sensitised to deal with the tourists,” he said.

Ministry of Tourism has shared that in line with the requests from stakeholders, they have decided that separate authorization letter for adventure tours can be issued to the existing approved tour operators who have already submitted all the additional documents related to adventure tours.

Ministry of Tourism has revamped Swadesh Darshan Scheme with 9 key reforms based on learnings from the implementations. The reforms include Broad basing of central sanctioning monitoring committee/ whole of Govt approach; strengthening state level institutional structure; strategic destination selection; detailed benchmarking/ gap analysis; focus on both hard and soft interventions; strengthening of project implementation and monitoring; sustainable operations and maintenance of destinations; focused promotion and destination marketing; and impact assessment and corrective measures.

Addressing the various stakeholders present at the 7th National Tourism Investors Meet 2022, Usha Padhee, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, stressed on collaboration between tour operators and airlines for marketing Indian destinations. She said, “The government is working to increase the number of airports in the country to 200 by 2024 from 140 airports. Aviation and tourism are complimenting sectors. Air connectivity needs to be in tandem with what the tourism sector is doing.”

Ministry of Tourism has been supporting 46 identified tourism routes under the Regional Connectivity Scheme 3.0 through the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) to the Airport Authority of India, to improve connectivity and boost tourism in the country.

India has been elected to the Inter-governmental Committee of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) for four years, tweeted Union Minister for Culture, Tourism and Development Of North Eastern Region G. Kishan Reddy