Tourism in India

"India is abundantly supplied with every thing that makes a country rich. She has a noble heritage of culture forms and her cultural potential is very great."

- Pt. Nehru India's cultural heritage is its most enduring legacy, and this is evident in the charm, the destina tion exercises on those who discover her enhance ment.

India is a land of ancient mores of rich tradi tion of cultural heritage, that today its chief tourist attraction. Here, amid the splendour of her land scape are exotic destinations where the past is only just round the corner, perfectly preserved in beau tiful monuments-places, forts, temples, hill and sea sand resorts. Travellers from for and wide used to visit In

dia from times immemorial. They were fascinated

by our rich and diverse cultural heritage., We are

anxious to preserve it for centuries to come.

Tourism has been recognised as an industry and the centre and the states have given it a push in their respective regions. The central organisa tion has rightly provided the requisite policy frame work for development of tourism on healthy lives and drawn up a comprehensive National Tourism policy. Its main components are diversification of International & Domestic Cultural oriented tour. ism to holiday and leisure tourism and exploration of new tourist generation markets etc.

This is a comprehensive study of evolution of Tourism Policy in India and also recent develop ments, achievements, and Perspectives of Tour ism, and Civil Aviation in India.

Cover Photograph: Vitthala temple of Hampi, which is one of the most complete and lovely in the city. Its open, pillared halls with their gracefully carved col umns, its towered gateways and its elaborate small stone ratha, (miniature Chariot/temple) are all entranc ing. An unusual and especially delightful feature are the musical columns which ring out with different tones of the musical scale.