Top 10 Challenges for Tourism Growth in India

The global economic meltdown compelled the tourism industry internationally to divert its focus on the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations. These economies, especially India weathered the downturn much better than Western countries. Indian tourism industry focused aggressively on the large domestic market, which helped reduce the impact of the economic slowdown to a huge  extent. With the global economy on the verge of a total recovery this year and travel picking up across segments, as well as the Commonwealth Games taking place in Delhi in October this year, the industry has a great opportunity to realise the full potential of Incredible India. However, the country is still faced with a number of road blocks for tourism development. Lack of proper policies and implementation, absence of single window clearance, security, scarcity of Public-Private-Partnerships and lack of circuits complete the list of top ten challenges faced by the industry. The need of the hour is for the government to address these problems and work with the industry to put India on a prominent position on global tourism map.