{"id":255794,"date":"2025-01-26T00:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=255794"},"modified":"2025-01-26T00:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T18:32:07","slug":"govts-requisite-support-to-tourism-and-hospitality-sector-lacking-kharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/govts-requisite-support-to-tourism-and-hospitality-sector-lacking-kharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt&#8217;s requisite support to tourism and hospitality sector lacking: Kharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 25 Jan:<\/strong> Alleging that the government&#8217;s requisite support to India&#8217;s tourism and hospitality sector is lacking, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday called for a collective effort to reform the sector, including filling the infrastructure gaps and aggressively promoting inbound tourism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On National Tourism Day, Kharge said that the country boasts of a rich diversity of natural beauty, ancient monuments, multitude of culinary traditions and multi-faceted cultures, making it an ideal destination for global travellers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the true potential of India&#8217;s tourism industry is far from being fully realised and foreign tourist arrivals in the country have remained well below the pre-Covid-19 levels, he said, adding that this is &#8220;extremely worrying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the Centre&#8217;s stated commitment to revitalising this crucial economic segment, the requisite support and impetus have been lacking, a situation that demands immediate attention, Kharge said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Therefore on #NationalTourismDay, we urge for a collective effort to reform the sector, including filling the infrastructure gaps and aggressively promoting inbound tourism,&#8221; he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 25 Jan: Alleging that the government&#8217;s requisite support to India&#8217;s tourism and hospitality sector is lacking, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday called for a collective effort to reform the sector, including filling the infrastructure gaps and aggressively promoting inbound tourism. On National Tourism Day, Kharge said that the country boasts of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}