vIndianz.com (Sept. 12, 2009)– Apart from launching an “Incredible India” campaign to target domestic tourists, India plans to promote domestic tourism with a series of roadshows and campaigns.
As India is known for its wellness tourism, the ministry plans to promote the key areas such as ayurveda, yoga, Unani and Siddha.
India received an estimated 5.37 million foreign tourists last year, whereas a small country like Singapore received 10 million tourists in 2008.
Tourism Minister Kumari Selja announced the guidelines to promote niche tourism like caravan and heliport tourism to provide an “exciting” new face to the industry.
The caravan tourism includes a specially equipped vehicle deployed on a tourist circuit, while helipad tourism is aimed at promoting tourism in hilly and remote areas.
She added that the financial packages of up to Rs.5 crore per destination to state governments that intend to develop such projects. The ministry added that it would extend financial assistance of up to Rs.75 lakh to state governments for construction of heliports.
The ministry has already approved two projects in Sikkim – Mangan and Geetang Khola.
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In India we have followed the westerners in a great length. Why not follow them in some more length which will be useful to us as well as the country. The step is that to cultivate and create a caravan or home on wheels tradition. Look at USA, Canadra, Europe, Germany or any other European country. They all have a community called caravan community. What is this all about and how it functions?
Just for example to visit all the exotic places in India we take the means of train, flight, and road facility and check in at a hotel to have a site seeing. And while site seeing the place we could not get proper food or proper place to stay. Also we tend to dirty the place we visit. Not even you can revisit the place again. But so many people and so many ways visit the place and in all many ways we dirty the place and environmentally it is not possible to visit again.
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