Problems and Challenges of Tourism industry in India

Abstract: Tourism has become the biggest industry in the world today. In this case, India's natural, cultural and historical heritage makes it a very important area from the point of view of tourism. Today India is known for various categories of tourism, such as adventure tourism, medical tourism, eco-tourism, rural tourism, etc. It is known that in India from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, from Arunachal Pradesh to Gujarat, each region has its own specialty and culture. These regions have the potential to attract tourists with their natural features like cold/hot deserts (Ladakh/Rajasthan), rivers (Ganga and Brahmaputra), forests (Niligiri and North East), islands (Andaman and Nicobar), mountains and plateaus etc. Also, the wide variety of landscapes and cultural heritage found here provide many options for tourists coming from abroad. Even today, in some countries of the world (such as Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar etc.) where followers of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism live in large numbers. Significantly, being the birthplace of the originator of these religions, there are a large number of holy and religious tourist places here, due to which a large number of tourists from South East and East Asian countries are being attracted.ber of tourists from South East and East Asian countries are being attracted.