2. WHY?
• People have more
disposable income.
• Companies give more paid
holidays than they used to.
• Travel has become
cheaper (particularly
air travel)
There has been a grobal increase
in tourism in last 60 years
3. • Improvements in transport (e.g. more
airports) have made it quicker and
easier to travel to places.
• Countries in more unusual destinations
such as the middle east and Africa have
got better at marketing themselves as
tourist attractions. Thi means more
people are aware of them.
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Some areas have become more
popular then they used to be
Why?
4. • Tourism creates jobs for local people.
• Tourism is important to the economy
of both rich and poor countries e.g.
tourism in France generated 35 million
euros In 2006 and 2 million jobs.
• Poorer countries tend to be more
dependant on income from tourism
than richer ones.
Tourism is important for
economies of many countries
5.
6. TOURISM IN INDIA
• Tourism in India is economically important and is growing
rapidly. The World Travel & Tourism Council calculated that
tourism generated ₹15.24 lakh crore
• Over 10 million foreign tourists arrived in India in 2017
compared to 8.89 million in 2016
7. • There are 36 World Heritage Sites in India that are
recognised by the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as of
August 2017.
• These are places of importance of cultural or natural
heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage
Convention, established in 1972
