Incredible India's Tourism Sector Promises A Scenic Turnaround

The Government of India along with the state governments have played a key role in enabling the travel and tourism ecosystem. Strategic initiatives, including relaxed foreign direct investment policies, revamping of the ‘Incredible India’ and other campaigns, and the extension of e-visa to 166 countries have helped expand the nation’s travel and tourism scenario. Coupled with the recent slashes in GST rates for hotels, the tourism industry in India may soon gain momentum, reports Shohini Nath

- Shohini Nath

India is one of those countries that can boast of a wide array of attractive tourist destinations. Mountains both green and white, beautiful sunny beaches, alluring forts and palaces of Rajasthan and other states, dense forests of the north-eastern region, shimmering backwaters and gorgeous temples of South India – the list could go on and on if we were to highlight all the tourist attractions that make India such an attractive destination. All the 28 states and the nine Union Territories have so much to offer to both domestic and foreign tourists. Incredible India, it certainly is! Moreover, with a geographical advantage, India is fringed by the mighty Himalayas in the north, stretching towards the Tropic of Cancer and tapering off into the Indian Ocean to the south with the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal on each side.