What are hindrances in development of tourism in India?

Indian politicians are the hinderances in the development of tourism in India.

thier policies directly can influence the tourism

Answer

Tourism & Global Trade

The tourism industry is often overlooked in trade issues although for 83% of countries in the world it is one of their five top export categories, it
accounts for roughly 35% of the exports of services in the world and over 8% of the total world exports of goods (World Tourism Organization), it is
classified as an export strategy for debt-ridden countries by the IMF, (Chavez) and many of its components such as air transport, agricultural goods,
and communications are important trade issues. Tourism is distinct in that it moves people to the "product" rather than transporting a product to people,
and it is dependent and intricately tied to other areas of local economies such as agriculture, land, and labor. It is not possible to analyze tourism's
effects on local communities and its role in globalization without also looking at these other areas. Since liberalization in the tourism sector is dependent
on liberalization in other sectors, it is important to realize the effects of policies in many arenas within the WTO: agriculture, intellectual property rights,
services, investment, etc. and the ways they may strengthen the global tourism industry's control over local communities and further erode communities'
abilities to be active agents in the decision-making regarding their own environments and futures.

Trade Liberalization vs. Indigenous Culture: Conflicts Over Ethics, Selling of Traditions, Lands, Culture, Intellectual
Property Rights

The ethics of the World Trade Organization - that economic growth and globalization are the utmost priorities - effects every aspect of life: from trees to
Indigenous knowledge to labor and sells our traditions and lands.

Commodification is rampant in the tourism industry. Peoples and cultures are put on display on postcards, promotional literature, and in their own
homes when tourists arrive. The concept of "the right to a vacation" in industrialized countries (anyone with the money to travel can purchase a week or
two of another culture or part of nature) creates numerous and serious repercussions for host destinations and their environments. Tourism is deeply
rooted in a history of colonization and unequal relations between people and regions. Therefore, the effects of tourism cannot only be measured in
terms of employment generation, degree of pollution, infrastructure development, and loss of biodiversity. In addition, there are many societal and
psychological effects which are often immeasurable but have grave impacts and must be a part of the critical analysis of tourism and its effects on
Indigenous communities.

Tourism introduces a consumer culture into communities whose societies and values may not be based on the economic power of the individual.
Tourists' quest for "authenticity" often leads to a prostitution of the local culture for the demand and enjoyment of the tourists. The dissemination of
Western products and lifestyle has been one result of tourism and is actively promoted by the WTO. In fact, within the commercial realm, culture is
reduced to just another product to be traded: "Mass produced products of American popular culture are one of the country's biggest exports," according
to Debi Barker and Jerry Mander. If the entertainment and media/communi-cations industries prevail, more fabricated culture, i.e., Hollywood and
Disneylands, will be forced on other countries and cultures while their rights to protect their own cultures will erode. The inclusion of cultural products
in the elimination of barriers to trade and the increase in tourism will facilitate the growth of a tourist monoculture around the world. Nations, regions,
and people must have rights to preserve their cultures from erosion by the dominant consumer culture.

Another threat that the expanding global tourism industry brings to Indigenous communities is biopiracy. Bioprospecting and biopiracy often happen
under the guise of ecotourism. There are concerns about numerous "ecotourism" trips where scientists, tourists, students and researchers enter into
forests to collect information about local plants and ecosystems, stealing biodiversity and, in some cases, attempting to patent life and the stealing of
knowledge developed over centuries. Yet, Indigenous worldviews are not taken into consideration nor consulted as "scientific knowledge" when policies
and decision-making regarding bioprospecting are made.

Indigenous Peoples around the world, working together to help direct and develop UN policies on tourism, recently proposed to the Commission on
Sustainable Development the following statement on ethical principals:

Tourism has often had negative impacts on Indigenous Peoples and other local communities and ecosystems of which they are a part. These
communities are a diverse mixture of environ-ments, cultures, religions, spiritualities as well as genders and ethnicitiesÉ Unsustainable tourism damages
the environment and violates Indigenous Peoples' and local communities' human rights and rights of access and ownership to land and natural resources
essential to food security, self-sufficiency and cultural identity. It also commercializes and markets Peoples and their cultural heritage, and sacred sites
integral to traditional cultural and knowledge systems. Therefore, Indigenous Peoples and other local communities should enjoy the full measure of
human rights, collective rights, and fundamental freedoms without hindrance and discrimination. This includes the right to reject as well as accept
tourism. Furthermore, they should be prime decision-makers with regard to tourism that will impact their cultures and environments.

Tourism Myths and Realities

The tendency of large-scale tourism to dominate a whole regional economic base can be observed in many areas throughout the world. Tourism
threatens and often destroys locals' traditional means of livelihood, or local self-reliance, and can ruin local industries with its build-up of transportation,
communications, and economic infrastructure. Liberalization in economic sectors such as agriculture, or expansion of other industries such as logging
or mining, also create conditions ripe for tourism development since they help to erode a community's self-sufficiency and create dependency upon a
market over which locals have no control. For instance, the concentration in agribusinesses and free trade agreements such as NAFTA have left local
communities with little food security and searching for a way to survive. It is no coincidence that those who have lost their lands or have no market for
their crops are forced into service-sector employment in the tourism industry and are increasingly dependent on the whims of the global market and the
corporations which run it.

Tourism is the world's largest employer according to estimates of the World Travel and Tourism Council. It is often touted as a creator of employment
and a mechanism of development for the communities where it imposes itself. Often, however, the jobs that tourism creates are not adequate living-wage,
secure jobs with benefits, jobs where people can develop skills, and they usually do not comply with labor standards. WTO rulings regarding labor
standards as "barriers to free trade" are threats for workers in the tourism industry who already have little job security and labor rights and who have
few, if any, other options for employment.

Another serious threat to sustainable tourism projects is the WTO's prioritization of global commerce over everything: self-reliance of communities,
environment, human rights, health and safety. New issues such as investment, government procurement, and competition policy will severely limit the
opportunities for communities to create sustainable, tourism alternatives. The WTO's goal for a "harmonization" of standards around the world will
facilitate the growth of a consumer culture in addition to the erosion of self-reliance of communities and regions. According to Wallach and Sforza in
their book Whose Trade Organization? "Differences in standards, even if they express differences in cultures and values, are deemed inherently
undesirable because they fragment the global market." There will be no way to enforce standards for the tourism industry such as prior-informed
consent, support for local initiatives, or environmental regulations, within these uniform global standards designed by corporations.

Rules on investment and competition policy will make it virtually impossible to ensure Indigenous and local control over tourism projects. Foreign
direct investment will limit countries' abilities to put conditions on the type of investment they receive, will give more rights to foreign investors and will
only increase the leakage of profits out of the host country. For the tourism industry, where up to 90% of profits leave the host country, this would be a
disaster. Communities will have no rights to regulate which companies set up businesses on their lands. Competition policy would make it virtually
impossible

for communities and small businesses to develop their own tourism alternatives in a protected environment. Community
==The first reason is the "government".
==The second reason is "people"....(their intention and attitude on the foreign people)
==The third most of the tourists like to visit some place where they can relax and spend some time peacefully, in India we ain't got any place where you can spend time privately, so my third reason is going to be the "population"
==Our geographical location is another major issue, its very hot here around the year, so not all the ppl like to spend their vacation on a place where temperature is always burning....
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Besides all these, we ain't got a lot of tourist spots....lol