SME Times News Bureau | 18 Jul, 2018
Tourism
Minister K J Alphons on Tuesday said that the Tourism Sector alone
has created 14.62 million job opportunities in the country in the
last four years.
Addressing
the media in New Delhi, the Minister further elaborated that the
Tourism sector provides opportunities to skilled as well as unskilled
job seekers thereby providing employment to all sections of the
society.
The
Minister added that Tourism Ministry is now focusing on promotional
activities to bring attention of the tourists about the unexplored
areas of North Eastern states of India, like the largest cave network
of Asia which is in Meghalaya.
Refuting
the recent reports in the media on 'Safety of women in India',
the Minister ascertained that India is safe for tourists and added
that Ministry also has taken various initiatives to ensure safety and
security of tourists.
In
view of this, the Minister said that guidelines on Safety and
Security of Tourists have been issued for States/UTs and 14 states
already have Tourist Police in one form or other.
The
Tourism Minister added that in order to promote the country abroad,
the Ministry has conducted several ‘Incredible India road shows’
in the US, Europe and few upcoming ones in China and Nordic
countries.
He
further added that three theme based 60 seconds Incredible India
videos has been released till date and it has received huge
viewership in social media platforms.
The
Minister also added that more focus is given to the Cruise Tourism
sector with the Tourism Ministry investing Rs. 100 crore and the
Shipping Ministry contributing a corpus of Rs. 250 crore to the
sector.
The
cruise ports are being developed at Mumbai where it is along with an
entertainment complex, and also Cruise jetties in Goa, Cochin,
Chennai and Visakhapatnam.