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TOURISM IN INDIA

Types of Tourism

Adventure Tourism

As a kind of tourism in India, adventure tourism has recently grown in India. This involves exploration of remote areas and exotic locales and engaging in various activities. For adventure tourism in India, tourists prefer to go for trekking to places like Ladakh, Sikkim, and Himalaya. Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir are popular for the skiing facilities they offer. Whitewater rafting is also catching on in India and tourists flock to places such as Uttranchal, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh for this adrenalin-packed activity.

Beach Tourism

India’s vast coastline and islands provides ample opportunities for fun packed tourism. Kerala, Goa, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep islands attract tourists in large numbers all around the year.

Cultural Tourism

India is known for its rich cultural heritage and an element of mysticism, which is why tourists come to India to experience it for themselves. The various fairs and festivals that tourists can visit in India are the Pushkar fair (Rajasthan), Taj Mahotsav (Uttar Pradesh), and Suraj Kund mela (Haryana). Sites like Ajanta & Ellora caves (Maharshtra), Mahabalipuram (TamilNadu), Hampi (Karnataka), Taj Mahal (Uttar Pradesh), Hawa Mahal (Rajasthan).

Eco Tourism

Among the types of tourism in India, ecotourism have grown recently. Ecotourism entails the sustainable preservation of a naturally endowed area or region. This is becoming more and more significant for the ecological development of all regions that have tourist value. For ecotourism in India, tourists can go to places such as Kaziranga National Park (Assam), Gir National Park (Gujarat), and Kanha National Park (Madhya Pradesh).

Medical Tourism

Tourists from all over the world have been thronging India to avail themselves of cost-effective but superior quality healthcare in terms of surgical procedures and general medical attention. There are several medical institutes in the country that cater to foreign patients and impart top-quality healthcare at a fraction of what it would have cost in developed nations such as USA and UK. The city of Chennai (Tamil Nadu) attracts around 45% of medical tourists from foreign countries.

Wildlife Tourism

India has a rich forest cover which has some beautiful and exotic species of wildlife – some of which that are even endangered and very rare. This has boosted wildlife tourism in India. The places where a foreign tourist can go for wildlife tourism in India are the Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary, Keoladeo Ghana National Park (Rajasthan), and Corbett National Park (Uttarkhand).

For more details on different parts of India & Tourist sites, click https://incredibleindia.org/index.php/travel

Wellness Tourism 

Since ages, India has been an incredible tourist destination with its impressive variety of history, culture and scenic beauty. India offers variety of choices from rural to eco-tourism; mountains to exotic wild life trails; world heritage toy trains to superfast luxury trains; bustling cosmopolitan cities to quiet countryside, hill stations to beach resorts. India has literally everything that a visitor wants to experience and offers travellers a complete holiday both physical and mental.

India today also has immense facilities and enormous scope of healthcare wellness tourism including Ayurveda, alternative and holistic treatment. India is perceived worldwide, as one of the true spiritual homes of the modern wellness movement and has a powerful and unique ‘wellness halo’ with its ancient, rich history of Ayurveda, yoga and meditation. India is attracting tourists seeking serenity and optimum health and is emerging as one of the fastest-growing wellness market in the world and a thought-leader in the travel category of wellness tourism.

Wellness tourism in India witnesses a huge increase in its demand supplemented by India’s expertise in alternative healthcare practices, reduced cost of international travel and low cost semi- luxury hotels & resorts, improved transport and communication infrastructure, availability of English speaking staff at centres and scope for moulding wellness tourism into lifestyle tourism by high end travellers.

India's 1st healthcare tourism portal, http://www.indiahealthcaretourism.com, launched by Government of India has complete information about hospitals as well as wellness centres providing Ayurvedic and alternative holistic treatment. It gives exhaustive details on medical, alternative and holistic treatment by facility, specialty, travel & accommodation, connectivity, immigration visa etc.

List of State recognized Yoga Institute and related Departments in various States- click here