Volume : IV, Issue : VIII, August - 2015

New Delhi as a Tourism Region

Gopal Prasad, Dushyant Kumar, Gaurav Nain

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Tourism is a travel for recreation, leisure, religious, family or business purposes, usually for a limited duration. In India during 2012, the Foreign Tourist Arrivals increased to 6.58 million from 6.31 million in 2011. Delhi has excellent blend of rich cultural heritage, modern lifestyle and is also the venue for important events related to business, sports and entertainment accompanied with world class airport facilities, strategic position, attractions and growing economy which led to an increase in tourism. The present study New Delhi as a tourism region shows that among all the tourist sites of Delhi, Qutub Minar attracted 61.4 per cent of Foreign Overnight Visitors followed by Domestic Overnight Visitors 51.9 per cent and Domestic Day Visitors 13.9 per cent. Red Fort witnessed 45.1 per cent of Domestic Overnight Visitors, 32 per cent Foreign Overnight Visitors and 21.8 percent of Domestic Day Visitors respectively. In Delhi Zoo and PragatiMaidan there was 25.1 per cent and 21 per cent of domestic overnight visitors as compared to foreign overnight visitors 3.6 per cent and 15.4 per cent respectively in 2011. A trend in tourism is analysed from the secondary data that out of total 27, 06, 126 tourists in 2004, 68.98 per cent were Indian and remaining 31.02 per cent were foreigners which increased to 54.19 per cent of Indian and 45.81 per cent foreigners in 2007. In 2008 percentage of Indian tourist declined to 47.69 and foreign tourist increased to 52.31 per cent.

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Gopal Prasad, Dushyant Kumar, Gaurav Nain New Delhi as a Tourism Region Global Journal For Research Analysis, Vol: 4, Issue: 8 August 2015

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