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Tourist inflow to Madhya Pradesh doubled in a year: Government

| Friday | 21st July, 2017

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh tourism department has claimed that inflow of tourists have doubled this year as compared to last year.This year, 15.05 crore tourists, including 3.63 lakh foreigners, visited the state. "The well-conceived publicity by Madhya Pradesh tourism has attracted not only domestic but also international tourists to the state. "We were expecting this growth in 2017 as we had taken many initiatives to increase the inflow," Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation MD Hari Ranjan Rao said. The department said that the inflow has increased because of a slew of initiatives taken by the government to promote the state as a preferred destination. The inflow would continue to rise as there are multiple initiatives in the pipeline, he added.

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh tourism department has claimed that inflow of tourists have doubled this year as compared to last year.This year, 15.05 crore tourists, including 3.63 lakh foreigners, visited the state. Last year tourist arrivals to the state was around 7.5 crore. The department said that the inflow has increased because of a slew of initiatives taken by the government to promote the state as a preferred destination."We were expecting this growth in 2017 as we had taken many initiatives to increase the inflow," Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation MD Hari Ranjan Rao said. The inflow would continue to rise as there are multiple initiatives in the pipeline, he added."State Tourism Policy-2016 has been implemented to attract private players/investors in tourism sector in Madhya Pradesh under which number of tourism projects has been increased and the provision of capital subsidy has been made applicable for the entire country", Rao said.Rao said that subsidy amounting to about Rs 24 crore has been provided to 19 units in one single year. "The well-conceived publicity by Madhya Pradesh tourism has attracted not only domestic but also international tourists to the state.

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