India should attract more foreign tourists: Selja

Monday, 01 June 2009, 15:42 IST   |    2 Comments
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New Delhi: India needs to attract more foreign tourists, whose number has dipped after the Mumbai terror attack and due to economic depression, Tourism Minister Kumari Selja said Saturday. "The tourism sector has a lot of challenges apart from attracting foreign tourists to India. Our goal is also to focus on the Commonwealth Games next year," she said after taking charge of the ministry. Selja, who also holds the housing and urban poverty alleviation portfolio, said that preparations for the Commonwealth Games were on and they just needed to speed up the process. "We have less time and we have to put everything on the fast track. An overwhelming number of tourists are expected, so we need to cater to that," she said.
Source: IANS