Govt to increase airport number to 350 to boost connectivity, tourism: Aviation Minister

Naidu emphasised the government’s imaginativeness of boosting home connectivity and providing amended facilities and lukewarm hospitality astatine airports to invited overseas tourists, arsenic airports are “gateways to a country”.

“Today, we person 157 airports but successful the adjacent 20-25 years, erstwhile we are going to spot the existent Viksit Bharat successful 2047, we privation to summation the fig of airports which is 157 contiguous to the tune of 350,” helium said astatine the lawsuit hosted by the Tourism Ministry.

He besides congratulated the tourism ministry aft Union Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat announced that nether the ‘Chalo India’ campaign, 1 lakh overseas tourists volition beryllium exempted from paying visa interest successful coming times.

“4.6 crore travellers landed successful India successful 2014, and present that we person accrued the fig of airports from 74 to a staggering 157… we are seeing astir 7 crore radical landing successful the state today. And, wrong these numbers, much than 35 per cent radical are arriving for holidays and recreation only,” the civilian aviation curate successful his code said.

He said that his ministry is present connecting galore antecedently “unserved” and “underserved” airports which are adjacent to beauteous landscapes.
He praised the UDAAN strategy of the Narendra Modi authorities successful making aerial question person to the communal man.

“We are looking astatine connecting much of these hinterland locations which are adjacent to these unexplored gems by creating much airports also… We are wholly successful enactment with the tourism sector,” the Union civilian aviation curate added.

He said his ministry is keen to amended seaplane and chopper connectivity also.

Air question is the cardinal nexus that paves the mode for overseas tourists’ arrivals successful India, and “we should enactment successful sync” to leverage the champion tourism imaginable of country, the curate said.

With the purpose of utilizing tourism arsenic a large means for sustainable improvement and particularly poorness alleviation, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) had decided to observe World Tourism Day connected September 27 each year.

World Tourism Day was celebrated for the archetypal clip successful 1980.

The day marks the day of the adoption of the UN’s Statutes successful 1970, which paved the mode for the constitution of United Nations Tourism, 5 years later.

Every twelvemonth World Tourism Day is celebrated with a peculiar theme. This year’s taxable is “Tourism and Peace”.