PM Modi bats for particular packages to advertise Indian states for vacation spot weddings

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: Spelling out the potential of tourism in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday instructed methods to advertise states as ‘wedding destinations’ to spice up tourism. He urged to create an setting within the nation so that folks can go to totally different states to solemnize weddings in response to the native traditions.

“Today, destination weddings are a big business. People go to foreign countries. Can special packages be announced for weddings in our states? I will say that there should be an environment in our country; the people of Gujarat should feel that for their weddings, Tamil Nadu should be the place and marriages should be conducted as per Tamil customs. If a family has two children, someone will think of an Assamese traditional wedding for one and Punjabi style for another,” mentioned the PM.          

Modi was addressing a post-budget webinar on ‘Developing Tourism in Mission Mode’. It was the seventh of the 12-post-budget webinar sequence being organized by the Government to hunt concepts and options for efficient implementation of the initiatives introduced within the Union Budget 2023.

Modi additional added that at current, solely chosen locations are being explored for vacation spot weddings.

“Destination wedding business has a big potential. Elites go abroad but middle-class and upper-middle-class people go to local destinations and it has newness. Whenever there is a novelty, it becomes a life-long memory. We haven’t been working in this direction; only limited states are doing it in their own method,” mentioned the PM underlining the necessity to suppose out of the field and plan to take tourism in India to new heights.

Modi busted the parable that tourism is a elaborate phrase related solely with the high-income teams of the nation.

“Some feel that tourism is a fancy word and represents only high-income groups. If we see it in the Indian context, tourism’s sphere is bigger and very old. We have had yatras (pilgrimage) for centuries. They have been part of our culture and social life. People used to go on pilgrimage even when there were no resources available to them,” mentioned he whereas citing the examples of ‘Char Dham Yatra’, ‘Dwadash Jyotirling Yatra’, and ‘51 Shaktipeeth Yatra’.

He additionally talked concerning the lack of amenities at spiritual-religious websites previously and added that spruced-up amenities result in a rise within the attraction amongst vacationers.

He knowledgeable that round 80 lakh individuals would go to Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi in a yr earlier than it was rebuilt, however the vacationer footfall crossed seven crores final yr after the renovation.

The PM additionally burdened selling faculty and faculty journeys to the northeast in order that extra individuals turn into conscious and begin growing infrastructure and amenities for vacationers. He insisted on growing 50 such vacationer locations that each vacationer from across the globe is certain to go to on his journey to India.

NEW DELHI: Spelling out the potential of tourism in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday instructed methods to advertise states as ‘wedding destinations’ to spice up tourism. He urged to create an setting within the nation so that folks can go to totally different states to solemnize weddings in response to the native traditions.

“Today, destination weddings are a big business. People go to foreign countries. Can special packages be announced for weddings in our states? I will say that there should be an environment in our country; the people of Gujarat should feel that for their weddings, Tamil Nadu should be the place and marriages should be conducted as per Tamil customs. If a family has two children, someone will think of an Assamese traditional wedding for one and Punjabi style for another,” mentioned the PM.          

Modi was addressing a post-budget webinar on ‘Developing Tourism in Mission Mode’. It was the seventh of the 12-post-budget webinar sequence being organized by the Government to hunt concepts and options for efficient implementation of the initiatives introduced within the Union Budget 2023.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Modi additional added that at current, solely chosen locations are being explored for vacation spot weddings.

“Destination wedding business has a big potential. Elites go abroad but middle-class and upper-middle-class people go to local destinations and it has newness. Whenever there is a novelty, it becomes a life-long memory. We haven’t been working in this direction; only limited states are doing it in their own method,” mentioned the PM underlining the necessity to suppose out of the field and plan to take tourism in India to new heights.

Modi busted the parable that tourism is a elaborate phrase related solely with the high-income teams of the nation.

“Some feel that tourism is a fancy word and represents only high-income groups. If we see it in the Indian context, tourism’s sphere is bigger and very old. We have had yatras (pilgrimage) for centuries. They have been part of our culture and social life. People used to go on pilgrimage even when there were no resources available to them,” mentioned he whereas citing the examples of ‘Char Dham Yatra’, ‘Dwadash Jyotirling Yatra’, and ‘51 Shaktipeeth Yatra’.

He additionally talked concerning the lack of amenities at spiritual-religious websites previously and added that spruced-up amenities result in a rise within the attraction amongst vacationers.

He knowledgeable that round 80 lakh individuals would go to Kashi Vishwanath Dham in Varanasi in a yr earlier than it was rebuilt, however the vacationer footfall crossed seven crores final yr after the renovation.

The PM additionally burdened selling faculty and faculty journeys to the northeast in order that extra individuals turn into conscious and begin growing infrastructure and amenities for vacationers. He insisted on growing 50 such vacationer locations that each vacationer from across the globe is certain to go to on his journey to India.