INDIA - The Indian tourism market is maturing

Expresstravelworld.com, december 2007

The outbound leisure market is expected to grow by 20 per cent with 15 million tourists by the year 2011. With the spending ability increasing and the number of free individual travellers growing faster than ever, outbound tourism is bound to be on the rise. This implies opening up of newer areas of tourism to cater to this growing market. Accordingly, this growth can also be witnessed by the coming in of newer tourism boards into India. The future of tourism in the Asia-Pacific region belongs to India and China; countries that will take tourism in the region to newer heights. The future for outbound tourism from the country looks very bright, posing a challenge therefore for the NTO's to bring in unique products along with matching the barometers of service standards.

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