TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

India has abundant natural beauty spread across the country.  We have large mountains, wide range of forests filled with animals, many bird sanctuaries, great rivers, many historical monuments and countless other contributions by the nature and age old creations of man.  Though we have unending spots of good sight seeing and many more ingredients to attract tourists from all over the world we could so far not reach the top slot in income.

While the government is trying to extract more and more money from people through taxes, especially from vehicle fuels we are not trying to explore more and more alternative avenues like tourism. This is a never ending inflow of money. If the state and central governments are not making adequate efforts to enhance the tourist inflow, people should take the responsibility. We have countless number of social organisations engaged in various activities. All of them may add tourism too in their portfolio. They may teach the people about the large income available from tourism direct to people. Each organisation, irrespective of its current function should ensure to bring a given number of people into tourism sector. Provide marginal help to people to get them engaged in various channels of tourism like food and accommodation, transport, specialising in different art forms, temple festivals, astrology, 'Mashi Nottam', magic, and such never ending things that can canvas tourists. Take the help of government in organising seminars, exhibitions,  wide propoganda development etc.

If people can be organised properly in the different sectors of tourism, it will not only fetch money to the people but also to the governments in large amounts.

K V George