Key Highlights
- Newsroom ReviewedFormer NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Tuesday highlighted some key reasons why India’s tourism sector remains uncompetitive.
- Noting that the sector is a major driver of job creation, he emphasised the need to simplify, merge, and remove redundant procedures to boost competitiveness. Kant stated that tourism has a strong multiplier effect on the economy.
- “Regulatory complexity has made India’s tourism uncompetitive – a 4-star room in Goa costs almost twice as much as in Phuket or Da Nang.
- State governments must simplify, merge and scrap redundant processes essential to restore competitiveness,” he wrote on X. He also cited a report by the Atithi Foundation on the sector, which offered key suggestions aimed at improving India’s tourism sector. The report, originally shared by the foundation on Nov.
- 9, focused on Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) for the sector.
