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India's share of Global tourism is an abysmal 0.467%. Last year almost 6 million tourists came to India which is an absurdly low figure. Even Sri Lanka,Singapore,Malaysia and Thailand get more tourists. India has so much to offer the world in terms of culture,natural beauty,wild life,ancient monuments,religious places and climatic diversity that it can easily become one of the leading tourist destinations in the world. The main reason for lack of tourist interest in India is the hostility of the world media to India. The foreign media goes to extreme lengths to project India as a barbaric country and Indians as savages whose only occupation is molesting western women! Nothing can be farther from the truth. Indian men are as beastly as their counterparts elsewhere. Western women should take elementary precautions like travelling in groups,not take lifts from strangers and avoid going alone to lonely and desolate places.
Tourism has great potential as a source of foreign exchange, employment and cultural fusion! States like Goa,Rajasthan,Kerala and Himachal Pradesh are important tourist destinations and are generating tremendous prosperity. If these states can engage international tourism operators and give them a convincing sales pitch I am sure India's share in Global tourism can increase tremendously.