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Friday, July 25, 2025
TopicForeign Tourists

Topic: Foreign Tourists

Children are Old Delhi’s newest tour guides. Tourists can’t get enough of them

Want to explore Old Delhi’s lanes and rich history? You can connect with 10-year-old Anabiya, 16-year-old Kajal, 17-year-old Chandni, or 21-year-old Heena.

The curious India tourism paradox. Domestic pilgrims opt for luxury, foreigners go budget

India’s pilgrimage business is booming, with choppers for the rich and dorm beds for the poor. But the days of wooing foreigners to the Taj, Jaisalmer, and Palace on Wheels are over.

Foreign tourists spooked by India-Pakistan tensions. Changing plans, ditching north

Many tourists are changing plans and looking for alternative holiday destinations within India. They’re steering clear of Leh, Rishikesh, Shimla and other popular spots.

Every assault that foreign women carry home rewrites the India story—and we let it happen

The Israeli tourist in Karnataka did everything India asks of women to be safe—and yet she carries home the scars of a brutal sexual assault.

Union Budget: Tourism sector to get boost with visa waivers, medical tourism push & homestay loans

The govt laid out a plan to make tourism a key sector for employment-led growth in India. FM Sitharaman announced a plan to develop 50 tourist destinations in the country.

Fewer tourists are visiting India now. What’s worse, our stand is we don’t really care

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.

Goa minister says 2023 tourist footfall crossed pre-Covid numbers after X user booked for claiming dip

According to Goa tourism minister, over 86 lakh tourists visited in 2023, and 80.64 lakh in 2019. Entrepreneur booked for X post says ‘can't protect Goa tourism by suppressing criticism'.

Is brand India dimming? Pollution panic, dire warnings for women, big dip in foreign tourists

India’s rising global stature hasn’t solved its image issues. Pollution, travel advisories about women’s safety, and negative press are dragging down its standing as a tourist destination.

After French tourist’s fatal fall, Spanish woman now slips and injures leg in Fatehpur Sikri

Spanish tourist rushed to Agra were she underwent MRI, X-ray tests. Meanwhile, fact-finding team finds lapses while inspecting site where a French tourist had fatal fall Thursday.

US travel advisory flags rape in India, asks American visitors to exercise ‘increased caution’

The travel advisory has also advised US citizens to avoid visiting some popular tourist places in Jammu and Kashmir due to the risk of terrorist attacks and civil unrest.

On Camera

Mumbai blasts acquittal must not set a precedent. It’ll hurt both agencies and judiciary

Several terror attack cases have been concluded by following the methods Maharashtra ATS used in the 7/11 case. It’s surprising that the high court didn’t find them worthy of legal scrutiny.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.