Budget 2025: Development of tourist sites to push for medical tourism, key highlights for tourism and hospitality sector
Updated On: 01 February, 2025 01:30 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
In addition to focusing on general development of tourist sites, the measures also advocated for promotion of medical and spiritual tourism
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India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting her eighth consecutive budget on February 1, announced several measures for the tourism and hospitality sectors.
According to Economic Survey 24-25, the tourism sector’s contribution to GDP regained the pre-pandemic level of 5 per cent in FY23. The sector created 7.6 crore jobs, and international tourist arrivals (ITAs) in India also rebounded to pre-pandemic levels in FY23. The tourism and hospitality sector are key drivers of India’s economic growth.
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