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Steps taken by M/O Tourism to Ensure Safety and Security of Tourists, Including Foreign Tourists ‘Public Order’ and ‘Police’ are State subjects as per the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. As such, the prevention of crime, including crimes against tourists, is the primary responsibility of State Governments/Union Territories. In order to ensure safety and security of tourists, including foreign tourists, Ministry of Tourism has advised all the State Governments/Union Territory Administrations to deploy Tourist Police in the States/Union Territories. The State Governments of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha have deployed Tourist Police in one form or the other.  In order to ensure safety and security of tourists, including foreign tourists, the Ministry of Tourism has taken following steps: i.    The Ministry of Tourism, ...

Tourist Numbers to Goa are Falling” An analysis on “European Summary of the analysis: ·          The Goa government  was targeting 6 million arrivals by 2016. ·          In 2014, 4.05 million people holidayed at this destination, more than twice the state’s population of 1.54 million. ·          Those numbers represent a remarkable 30 per cent spike from the 3.12 million tourists that descended on Goa in 2013. ·          The culture and the lifestyle are attracting ever larger numbers, the numbers of high value foreign tourists are slowing down. ·          Indian arrivals shot up by 34.82 per cent between 2013 and 2014, foreign tourists were up by a modest 4.3 per cent. Domestic travelers now constitute 87.34 per cent of Goa’s tourism market. ·     ...