Over the last decade, we have begun to take the stand that even if foreign travellers do not want to come, we don’t really care. Even Indians are increasingly avoiding our tourist destinations.
The notion of Hindu victimhood is largely a 1980s creation, exploited for electoral purposes by LK Advani and passed down, in some garbled form, to the rabble.
If a government knows how to accommodate the fat cats and has worked out how to win the votes of the poor with direct transfers, then it doesn’t need the middle class
The Delhi government accepts that halting construction and reducing vehicular traffic can reduce pollution levels. But these are band-aids hurriedly pasted on gaping, bloody wounds.
When I see Indians getting agitated about Trump's immigration policies I am a little startled. Any country’s citizenship and immigration policies are its own business.
As the great power in the region, it is our duty to offer shelter to people of Indian origin when they are an oppressed minority in the countries where they live.
Senior officers at R&AW do not know how to conduct covert operations. Many are police officers who don’t seem to understand the difference between an encounter and a covert hit.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Goa today is the criminal gangrene of India, and the whole ecosystem of tourism is corrupted. Everybody is on take, and especially the police, and the entire tourist interface with locals. Energy is dark, so no more Yoga trainers /healers bringing groups to Goa. First the decent ones shifted to Gokarna, and now elsewhere. Women singles stopped visiting after Nirbhaya rape case. Check the drop in arrivals ever since. Sharks moved in at first sniff of foreign currency. Check sex trafficking from NE in Goa today, especially the casinoes. The Goa charm of the earlier decades is gone. And before anything else, check the Police Mafia on roads of Goa-Karnataka foreign tourist destinations.
I have been traveling to India since 2003..
love its culture, people & enjoy walking most years now in himalayas .. I can tell you though that one of the main reasons tourists & travellers are staying away is because of the need for a visa . India needs to drop this reqirement and more people will come..Also dont compare with thailand as its smaller and hotels are established ..
Except for a few places like Beach resorts all prime tourist places are being thronged by monied domestic tourists.. from north India coming to explore south and vice versa… Our Recent new year eve we spent ₹14k for the night fr 4 pax which otherwise would hv cost just 6k . A place like Cherai beach rooms selling for ₹24k +… Online the rates went up as high as Rs1 lac plus..
I think GoI should divert those Indians going abroad for holidays to tourist spots in India… that way we don’t need many foreign tourists to come here..
The taxi mafia is main culprit in Indian tourism. For 15 minuites travel in a jeep in the name of sight seeing, we were charged Rs.7000 in gulmarg, kashmir.
Such a shallow, brainless article – with a run-of-the-mill “blame-the-politician” conclusion! Expecting more analysis or thinking from Vir has become pointless. Why are flights or hotels more expensive to Indian destinations, why are the facilities not comparable to his usual foreign jaunts, etc and what could be initiatives by government, private companies and individuals to improve them? These could have been brought out better but no, a simple, price comparison of flights or hotel rooms is all he’s worth now.
Definitely an area where we need to focus as a country and some compelling numbers about the foreign tourists coming to India.
Would be good to also have domestic tourism numbers to give a perspective on how the domestic sector has grown.
Goa today is the criminal gangrene of India, and the whole ecosystem of tourism is corrupted. Everybody is on take, and especially the police, and the entire tourist interface with locals. Energy is dark, so no more Yoga trainers /healers bringing groups to Goa. First the decent ones shifted to Gokarna, and now elsewhere. Women singles stopped visiting after Nirbhaya rape case. Check the drop in arrivals ever since. Sharks moved in at first sniff of foreign currency. Check sex trafficking from NE in Goa today, especially the casinoes. The Goa charm of the earlier decades is gone. And before anything else, check the Police Mafia on roads of Goa-Karnataka foreign tourist destinations.
I have been traveling to India since 2003..
love its culture, people & enjoy walking most years now in himalayas .. I can tell you though that one of the main reasons tourists & travellers are staying away is because of the need for a visa . India needs to drop this reqirement and more people will come..Also dont compare with thailand as its smaller and hotels are established ..
Except for a few places like Beach resorts all prime tourist places are being thronged by monied domestic tourists.. from north India coming to explore south and vice versa… Our Recent new year eve we spent ₹14k for the night fr 4 pax which otherwise would hv cost just 6k . A place like Cherai beach rooms selling for ₹24k +… Online the rates went up as high as Rs1 lac plus..
I think GoI should divert those Indians going abroad for holidays to tourist spots in India… that way we don’t need many foreign tourists to come here..
The taxi mafia is main culprit in Indian tourism. For 15 minuites travel in a jeep in the name of sight seeing, we were charged Rs.7000 in gulmarg, kashmir.
Such a shallow, brainless article – with a run-of-the-mill “blame-the-politician” conclusion! Expecting more analysis or thinking from Vir has become pointless. Why are flights or hotels more expensive to Indian destinations, why are the facilities not comparable to his usual foreign jaunts, etc and what could be initiatives by government, private companies and individuals to improve them? These could have been brought out better but no, a simple, price comparison of flights or hotel rooms is all he’s worth now.
We have shifted from the motto of atithi devo bhava to lakshmi param deva. I don’t feel relaxed when i travel in india at all. It is full of scams.
But figures from Oyo gives the opposite . 4x increase in coorge srinagar varanasi ayodhya Siddhi and what not