{"id":224784,"date":"2023-02-02T20:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=224784"},"modified":"2023-02-22T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:06:51","slug":"tourism-to-go-into-mission-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tourism-to-go-into-mission-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism to go into mission mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cTourism to go into mission mode\u201d <\/strong>published in<strong> The Hindu<\/strong> on <strong>2nd February 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Union Budget announced a slew of measures for promotion of tourism that will go into <strong>Mission Mode<\/strong>.There was no increase in Budget allocation. It remained at \u20b9<strong>2,400 crore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the new initiatives declared in the budget for the tourism sector?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>50 new destinations<\/strong>&#8211; These would be selected through a challenge, and developed as a complete package.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New mobile app<\/strong>&#8211; It will provide tourist-friendly information like physical and virtual connectivity, and details on tourist guides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vibrant Villages Programme<\/strong>&#8211; Tourism infrastructure and amenities will be facilitated in border villages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unity Malls<\/strong>&#8211; States will be encouraged to set up a Unity Mall in their capitals, or the most prominent tourism centre, or the financial capital.<\/p>\n<p>These malls would work towards the promotion and sale of each State\u2019s own <strong>ODOP (one district, one product) and other handicrafts<\/strong>. They would also provide space for such products of other States.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the main demands of the tourism industry that have not been fulfilled by the budget?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Tourism sector has not been provided with <strong>infrastructure status<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>None of our demands of the tourism industry like <strong>rationalisation of GST<\/strong> on tourism, <strong>exemption of GST on foreign exchange earnings<\/strong> and <strong>refund of tax<\/strong> on shopping under the <strong>Tax Refund to Tourist Scheme<\/strong> have been considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cTourism to go into mission mode\u201d published in The Hindu on 2nd February 2023. What is the news? The Union Budget announced a slew of measures for promotion of tourism that will go into Mission Mode.There was no increase in Budget allocation. It remained at \u20b92,400 crore.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/tourism-to-go-into-mission-mode\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tourism to go into mission mode<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-224784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}