Union Budget: Top 50 tourist destination to be developed in partnership with states

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Published By : Chinmaya Dehury | February 1, 2025 4:39 PM

Nirmala Sitharaman

New Delhi, Feb 1: Union Budget 2025-26 has identified tourism as a sector for employment-led growth.  

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Presenting Budget in Parliament today,  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that facilitating employment-led growth include organizing intensive skill-development programmes for youth including hospitality management, MUDRA loans for homestays, improving ease of travel and connectivity to tourist destinations, introducing streamlined e-visa facilities and providing performance-linked incentives to states.

She said that top 50 tourist destination sites in the country will be developed in partnership with states through a challenge mode. 

The Budget added that land for building key infrastructure including hotels will have to be provided by states and hotels in those destinations will be included in the infrastructure HML. 

Minister said that emphasis on places of spiritual and religious significance will be given and there will be a special focus on destinations related to the life and times of Lord Buddha. 

Nirmala Sitharaman said that medical tourism and Heal in India will be promoted in partnership with the private sector along with capacity building and easier visa norms.

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