New Delhi: Talking about tourism in India, this year’s Union Budget (2023-24) for the tourism sector promises to hold huge opportunities for jobs and entrepreneurship.
While presenting the Budget on Wednesday, Finance Minister Niramal Sithraman said that the promotion of tourism will be taken up on mission mode with the active participation of states’ convergence of government programmes and public-private partnerships.
States will be encouraged to set up a ‘Unity Mall’ in the state capital or the most popular tourist destination in the state for the promotion and sale of ‘One District, One product’ and GI products and other handicrafts.
50 tourist destinations will be selected through challenge mode to be developed as a whole package for domestic and international tourism.
(IANS)
