I ndia is a multi-destination country with a variety of tourist attractions and facilities. It is the second largest net foreign exchange earner by way of invisible exports.
Tourism creates more jobs than any other sector for every rupee invested.
It has a major role in promoting large-scale employment opportunities. Keeping this in view, it has been granted the status of an industry. Several incentives have been made available by the Central and State governments to this sector. These efforts have largely promoted tourist arrivals in the country during the first quarter of this year. Foreign exchange earnings during this year has registered a significance increase of 9.3 per cent so far.