Tourism industry thrives on cultural heritage of India. Explain.
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Tourism thrives on the history of a country. It cannot be
isolated from history especially in a country like India whose cultural
heritage has a wealth of attractions. Besides its cultural heritage, India is
noted for its natural surroundings, the architectural masterpieces,
paintings, music, dance, customs, mountains, valleys, beaches and rivers.
All these go to make India a tourist paradise.
Though India had attained very great reputation as a tourist
centre during the days of the early Maharajas of various dynasties,
planned efforts were to systematize the process of growth of the tourism
industry were made only by the English men towards the close of their
reign. They made organised efforts towards the promotion of tourism in
1945. To start with they set up a high power Committee under the
Chairmanship of Sir John Sargent, the then Educational Advisor