Question

Write a speech on growth of tourism industry in india

Answer 1

Answer:

GROWTH OF TOURISM INDUSTRY IN INDIA

Explanation:

Tourism in India has a strong relevance to economic development, cultural growth and national integration. As mentioned earlier, India is a vast country of great beauty and diversity and her tourist potential is equally vast. With her rich cultural heritage as superbly manifest in many of the architectural wonders (palaces, temples, mosques, forts, etc), caves and prehistoric wall paintings, her widely varied topography ranging from the monotonous plains to the loftiest mountains of the world, her large climatic variations ranging from some of the wettest and the driest as well as from the hottest and the coldest parts of the world, beautiful long beaches on the sea coast, vast stretches of sands, gregarious tropical forests and above all, the great variety of the life-style, India offers an unending choice for the tourist.

The root of tourism in India can be traced to pilgrimage. Places of pilgrimage provided a firm ground to tourism in the beginning and still continue to be one of the most effective factors of promoting tourism in India. It is interesting to note that in the early stages, pilgrimage based tourism was only of domestic nature but during recent years, an increasingly large number of foreign tourists have also started visiting places of pilgrimage.

With other attractions gradually gaining ground, one can notice detectable changes in the character of Indian tourism, with a tilt from pilgrimage to pleasure trips. Today, the majority of the tourists feel that travelling for sheer pleasure offers much wider scope than that offered by pilgrimage and thus the former is always more colourful, lively, intimate, soothing to mind and body and hence, more enjoyable. Sometimes, people combine pilgrimage with pleasure trips to draw the benefit of both.

Organised tourism in India began in the 1950s with the genesis of planned development. Over the years, Indian tourism has grown considerably as is indicated by the arrival of foreign tourists. This shows that the number of foreign tourists visiting India has increased substantially after the beginning of the planned era.