India's tourism sector faces significant challenges due to inadequate infrastructure, poor connectivity, and a lack of skilled manpower. High taxation on the travel industry also makes India an expensive destination, while security concerns and bureaucratic visa processes hinder foreign tourist inflow. Improvements in infrastructure, marketing strategies, and regulatory support are essential for the sector's development.

1. Challenges before India’s tourism
sector

2. Access and connectivity
• Infrastructure facilities are not adequate. This remains a
major hurdle for development of tourism.
• connectivity remains a major problem.
• Aviation infrastructure is also critical
• Airport facilities at important secondary cities and
tourist destinations also need to be improved to handle
greater passenger traffic.

3. Lack of proper infrastructure
• Infrastructure such as ports of entry to modes of
transport, access hotels, roads, electricity, water supply,
sewerage and telecommunication etc.
• Many hilly regions improper development of hotels are
responsible for environmental degradation.

4. Amenities
• India scores poorly in terms of availability of these
infrastructure facilities.
• Inadequate infrastructure facilities affect inbound
tourism
• Increase outflow of domestic tourists from India to
other neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Singapore, Thailand etc.

5. Human resource
• Availability of skilled manpower is a major challenge
• trained manpower or workforce is required at every
level — managerial, supervisory, skilled or semi-skilled.
• Lack of tourism training infrastructure, qualified trainers

6. Service level
• The degree of service like airport, railway station, hotel
travel agency, tour guide etc. has a significant impact on
tourist’s experience
• lack of proper training and orientation impacts the
overall satisfaction level of the tourists

7. Lack of budgetary support for tourism
marketing
• Recent trends of tourism which include cruise tourism,
adventure tourism, medical tourism etc.
• these require support to develop and flourish.
• marketing push for these different products is required.
• India needs to change its traditional marketing approach to a
more competitive and modern approach.

8. Taxation
• Travel and tourism in India is a high-taxed industry, makes
India expensive as a tourist destination.
• Taxes are levied across the entire industry right from tour
operators, transporters, and airline industry to hotels
• Service tax, luxury tax, tax on transportation, tax on
aviation and various taxes on transportation.

9. Security
• Terrorist attacks or political unrest affect sentiments of
foreign tourists.
• Terror attacks at Mumbai in November 2008 dealt a
strong blow to tourism in the country.
• Communal riots

10. Cyber Crime
• major concerns relating to security of online transactions
• Cyber-crime is another major challenge the travel
industry
• some of the biggest frauds have been detected in this
segment

11. Regulatory issues
• Recently India is providing E-Visa for few countries.
• For inbound international tourists, visa procedures are
seen as a hindrance.
• A number of neighbouring countries competing with
India for tourists provide visa on arrival

13. Thank You!