India as a tourist destination

Tourism is the largest service industry in India, which contributes 6.23% to the national GDP and 8.78% of the total employment in India. Annually more the 5 million foreign tourist arrives India where as domestic tourist is 562 million.
According to world travel and tourism council, India will be a tourism hot spot from 2009 – 2018. As we talk about price competitive tourist destinations India is ranked 6th according to Travel and Tourism competitiveness report 2007.

As we talk about India as a tourist destination, is the destination of millennium, it is a land of all seasons where beauty summon, where culture plays a vital role,hospitality is an honor and tradition talks.
The Incredible India know for its “unity in diversity is surrounded by the Snowy Himalayan ranges in the North, amazing Arabian sea in the West, the vast Bay of Bengal in the East and the radiant Indian Ocean in the South.

Motivators & Tourism products in Indian:
Motivations arise out of the felt needs or wants of the individual. Tourist motivators can be classified as follows:
I. Pleasure, Recreation
II. Relaxation, Leisure
III. Health
IV. Visiting Friends and Relatives
V. Education
VI. Business
VII. Special Intrest
VIII. Novelty and Unique Experience
IX. Religious.

Motivators    :  Tourism Products            &       Famous Tour Packages

1.Pleasure and Recreation : Festival, wildelife, Sports, Monuments (Rajasthan fair festivals tour, Pushkar fair tour, Nagaur fair Tour, Desert festival tour, Ranthambhore National Park, Romance with Taj, Golden Triangle tour)

Desert Festival, Rajasthan

2. Leisure & Relaxation : Beaches, Yoga, Meditation, Hill resorts, Island resorts. (Beaches in India, Beaches in Goa, Beaches in Kerlela, Romantic beaches in India, Vacations in Indian beaches, Goa Tour package, Kerela Tour Package, Yoga tour package, Meditation tour package, Meditation in India, Vacations in Indian Mountains, Island resorts in India, Tour packages of Island.)

A beach in Kerela

A foreign Tourist learning the art of Indian Yoga

Some foreign tourists at Meditation centre

3. Health    : Spas , Ayurveda ( Ayurvedic Message, Rejuvenation Therapy of Kerala, Spa)

Ayurvedic massage

4. Education & Knowledge : Heritage, Culture & Tradition ( Heritage tour of India, Heritage tour package, Heritage of India, Indian Heritage Tour, Culture of India, Culture tour of India, Rajasthani Culture Tour, Culture tour of Rajasthan Tradition of India.

Sculptures in Khajuraho temple

Romance with Taj

Indian women in Pushkar fair

5. Business : Conference and Convention (conference tour package, Hotels for Conference in India)

6. Visiting Friends and Relatives : Shopping, Souvenir, Fairs & Festivals. (Shopping in Jaipur, Shopping in India, Indian Handicrafts, Indian Jewelery, Jaipur Paper work, Rajasthan Fairs and Festivals Tour, Pushkar fair Tour, Nagaur Fair Tour, Indian Fairs and Festivals, Holi Festival Tour.)

7. Religious : Pilgrimages to Holy places (Buddhist Pilgrimage Tours, Buddhist Temple Tour, Buddhist Temples Tour, Haridwar Tour, Rishikesh Tour, Spiritual Tour to India, Spiritual Tours of India.)

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India, the name is derived from sanskrit word Sindhu which is known as Indus, the local appellation for the Indus river. In hindi language India is also known as “Bharat” a country located in the South Asia, a peninsular country,  the biggest democracy of the world, the seventh largest country of the world on geographical area basis, world’s second largest in population with over 1.18 billion people.

India, a home of the ancient Indus valley civilization and also the region of ancient historic and long staid vast empires. The epicentre of four world’s major religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.

The country annexed by the British East India Company during the early 18^th century and colonised by the United Kingdom from the mid 19^th century and got independence on 15^th August 1947 after a long independence struggle led by many revolutionary and non revolutionary leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh and many more.

India is a federal constitutional republic with a parliamentary democracy. The economy of India is the eleventh largest in the world which has the third largest standing armed force in the world