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“FAITH HAS SUGGESTED
CREATING A CORPUS FOR 2018, and since 2000, the
A NATIONAL & CULTURAL cumulative investment
potential is so huge. The government HERITAGE RESTORATION inflow into hotel and
recognises that there is scope for creating a FUND WHICH WOULD KEEP tourism has been
large number of jobs and the multiplier effect THE NATURAL TOURISM US$15.8 billion between
is huge as well. As of present reckoning, 4.2 HABITAT LIKE DESERT April, 2000 and March,
crore jobs have been created in the sector in SAFARIS, WHITE WATER 2020.
2019, accounting for 8.1 per cent of total
employment in the country. It is also RIVER RAFTING AND DOMESTIC IS KEY
estimated that tourism contribution of MOUNTAINEERING IN With lockdowns across
tourism sector in 2019 in India was 6.8 per GOOD CONDITIONS..” the country slowly
cent of the GDP at Rs13,68,100 crore coming to an end, we are
(US$194.30 billion). witnessing the first green
India also has received the third largest shoots for domestic travel. There are early
investments globally at US$45.7 billion in signs of recovery led majorly by self-drive

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