{"id":297053,"date":"2024-05-27T20:47:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=297053"},"modified":"2024-05-27T20:47:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:17:39","slug":"india-underperforms-its-tourism-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-underperforms-its-tourism-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"India underperforms its tourism potential"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source-<\/strong>This post on India underperforms its tourism potential<\/strong> has been created based on the article \u201cMaking Incredible India work<\/strong>\u201d published in \u201cBusiness Standards<\/strong>\u201d on 27 May 2024.<\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus<\/strong>–GS Paper-3<\/strong>– Changes in Industrial Policy and their Effects on Industrial Growth.<\/p>\n

Context<\/strong>-The article highlights India’s 39th ranking in the World Economic Forum’s latest biannual Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI), which indicates a below-par performance in a high-potential business opportunity. The industry accounts for about 6 percent of GDP and provides just 80 million direct and indirect jobs.<\/p>\n

What are the findings of the index?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1) India’s Recovery and Positive Aspects in the TTDI-<\/strong>Despite the ranking not being strictly comparable to the 2019 study due to changes in index parameters, several data subsets suggest that India has recovered since the pandemic.<\/p>\n

A) India is among the top 10 countries in three resource criteria: natural (sixth), cultural (ninth), and non-leisure (ninth).<\/p>\n

B) The country also ranks 18th for price competitiveness, 26th for competitive air transport, and 25th for ground and port infrastructure.<\/p>\n

2) India has the largest travel and tourism sector in South Asia and is ranked as the top lower-middle-income economy in the study, which covered 119 nations.<\/p>\n

Read more-Tourism Sector in India<\/a><\/p>\n

What are the challenges faced by the tourism sector?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1) Critical Enabling Gap –<\/strong>There are key enabling gaps, such as internet connectivity, health and hygiene and environmental sustainability etc.<\/p>\n

2) India’s Share and China’s Impact-<\/strong> In 2021, India received 1.54% of international tourist arrivals, with a considerable portion being non-resident Indians. Despite China’s extended lockdown in 2021, India doesn’t seem to have gained much, given that China ranks eighth in the latest TTD.<\/p>\n

3) Lack of Quality Infrastructure in Tourism<\/strong>– In India, besides metro rail in two cities, public transportation like inter-city buses and trains isn’t as good as Indian airports and air travel. Unlike in the West, where people of all classes use public transport, rich and upper-middle-class Indians usually avoid it. This lowers India’s price competitiveness and affects tourism performance.<\/p>\n

The government aims to boost GDP by $1 trillion by 2047 through tourism, aiming to make India a key tourism spot, as outlined in the Dharamshala Declaration at last year’s G20 meetings. Starting with improving cleanliness and livability for all citizens would be a good initial step.<\/p>\n

Question for practice<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What are the recent findings of the Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI)? Highlight the challenges faced by the tourism sector?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source-This post on India underperforms its tourism potential has been created based on the article \u201cMaking Incredible India work\u201d published in \u201cBusiness Standards\u201d on 27 May 2024. UPSC Syllabus–GS Paper-3– Changes in Industrial Policy and their Effects on Industrial Growth. Context-The article highlights India’s 39th ranking in the World Economic Forum’s latest biannual Travel and… Continue reading India underperforms its tourism potential<\/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":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216,8184],"class_list":["post-297053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-economy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297053","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=297053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}