00:00 As we were looking at the figures, so domestic tourism has increased more than 93% in the
00:10 post-Pan-Indian scenario as compared to 2019.
00:13 We are not taking in consideration the figures of 2020, 2021, but when we compare to 2019,
00:20 there has been a tremendous, tremendous increase in the number of domestic tourists and November
00:26 onwards definite increase in the number of international tourists as well.
00:30 And we are all hopeful with a continual environment with such hospitality, year 2023 is going
00:37 to break much more records in arrival of tourists and offering better opportunities to the tourists
00:43 who come.
00:44 Coming back to today's subject is that when we are almost on the cusp of entering the
00:51 new year, this is also again as Sadhguru Kumarji was mentioning another milestone for us that
00:57 now we need to think responsibly about tourism.
01:00 Yes, tourism does contribute almost 13% to our state GSTP.
01:05 Yes, we have promised ourselves that we are going to take it to 15% in the coming two
01:11 years.
01:12 Yes, we are promoting more and more investment in tourism.
01:16 Yesterday we had a long VC with the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, where they
01:23 are also organizing a very big tourism investment summit somewhere in March.
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