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Mostly no!...mainly because, it is difficult exploring the country by yourself, esp if you are alien to the local language. There are not enough signboards and pointers in most places, not all attract...
sathya_pillai February 5, 2008 09:56
| | | My recent observation in Ooty
I always found Ooty very tourist friendly and the locals very courteous and honest. Last week at the Botanical Gardens I was shocked to see a group of tourists obviously from some village area of Mah/...
Maragatham January 22, 2008 12:26
| | | Atithi devobhava
"Atithi devobhava"
Most of the tourist visiting india for its high cultural and historical values have to face exploitaion from hawkers, cab drivers etc. they are not secured enough while visiting or...
aemi(Mumbai) January 21, 2008 13:06
| | | India Is tourist friendly
Well it is indeed sad that forigen toursit r getting harassed and a few r molested, this is very bad. It does not speak good for our country. At the sametime i also feel all the tv-channels are over h...
vishalk144(Dublin, Ireland) January 20, 2008 20:44
| | | no
indians are known to be good guests
but contrary to this tourists face a plethora of problems while visiting
reaching the tourist place and finding a decent accomodation there is the biggest challen...
kgupta24 January 2, 2008 10:03
| | | not at all..........
india is not at all tourist friendly country...specially people like coolies,guides,and local shopkeepers make fool of our guests arriving in our country as tourists by charging them unfair prices and...
ritikagrover(delhi) December 31, 2007 10:56
| | | is india tourist friendly
I would say only the die optimists would like to agree with this one. Our interior are still in awe of tourists & very uncouth dealing with them. I ve travelled extensively, women tourists are stared ...
freshnaturelife(delhi,india) September 21, 2007 06:22
| |  | | Re: is india tourist friendly
I agree with you completely having just observed this behaviour in Ooty of all places, albeit that it was not the locals but some other Indian tourists who were covertly misbehaving with a young forei...
Maragatham January 22, 2008 12:28
| | | Yes and No
To be on the positive side, only few decades back India got its independence. It is a great challenge for any government to bring these many number of tourists within this short time and that too to a...
priya87(Puducherry, India) September 14, 2007 18:45
| | | Only better infrastructure is the answer
No, not yet. Though everybody talks about portraying it correctly, what is mainly required is INFRASTRUCTURE. Tourists will turn out to be a by-product of good infrastructure; the main benefit will be...
rthakur(UK) September 9, 2007 04:49
| | | Treatment at South Indian temple
As is well known, many people want to visit places of worship as they age, to find solace in God. I took my grand-parents on a similar trip from Bangalore to Madurai-Rameshwaram-Kanyakumari. Most of t...
roy00 September 5, 2007 18:05
| | | Is India tourist friendly?
Given below is the way citizens of India are treated in tourist places. How others are treated, is left for you to guess.
As is well known, many people want to visit places of worship as they age, to...
roybhaskar September 5, 2007 18:00
| | | Not Really
NO for sure. India is not even safe for tourists within the country. Try traveling from North to South and you would be reminded time and again that you dont look the way they do and you are not well ...
Shilpiee(Delhi) August 30, 2007 14:00
| | | On the fence
I believe that no country is prefect and talking about India, it certainly isn't. India has luxirous facilities, if the tourists can afford the price of luxury. For the common public it might difficul...
nidhi_324(Canada ) August 8, 2007 23:50
| | | | Re: On the fence
India is a Huge W.C....
mkbajaj August 22, 2007 13:44
| | | Tourism
The first thing to be done is, MARKET THE TOURISM IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER.
Promote the 'in country tourism'and foreign vistors alike. Let the expat returnees begiven chance to develop this industr...
ak541975(India) August 1, 2007 11:24
| | | yes india is tourist friendly
because there is a large provisions given to the tourists who are visiting india like hotels and indian shops etc
and thats why india is tourist frindly...
saibalakar(salem) July 31, 2007 18:23
| | | Mehmaan
Yes, people with any doubt must be a crazy lot. The Indian culture is rooted to the land of the rishis; average indian is emotional about its own and country's dignity therefore teats tourist as athit...
jainarainprakash(delhi) July 28, 2007 16:01
| | | Is India tourist friendly?
The only thing that comes to my mind to answer this question is "The country may be tourist friendly but, the people are certainly not tourist friendly." The way some people stare at the foreign visit...
cutepriya57(Delhi, India) July 24, 2007 14:06
| | | Is India toursit friendly
"Not at all". As he enters through our airport fist our immigration department makes a negative image, thank god - customs chanels are turning green chanels. Well then our taxi drivers to hotels and t...
chezh(Chennai) July 21, 2007 17:50
| | | Athiti Devo Bhavah
Yes, people with any doubt must be a crazy lot. The Indian culture is rooted to the land of the rishis; average indian is emotional about its own and country's dignity therefore teats tourist as athit...
jainarainprakash(delhi) July 19, 2007 18:51
| | | Not really
The most important prerequisite which are clean public toilet facilities are sadly lacking....
Snony July 10, 2007 14:41
| | | a mere demand supply issue
well the beauty lies in the beholders eye but it can be surely said india is not a cent percent tourist friendly place as the people coming vary in the requirements ranging from comfort to experiences...
vimehta(Coimbatore) June 24, 2007 15:01
| | | yes
yes...
gufgue(bhatinda) June 24, 2007 02:57
| | | is india tourist friendly
i feel very embarassed to admit that india and indians are not tourist friendly. rather we want to fool tourists (foreigners / indian) to mint money at every opportunity. the cleanliness we boast of i...
chitra_gupta(Dehradun, India) June 22, 2007 12:47
| | | Lalo please allow german railways to upgrage Indian railways
The irctc.co.in website is very useful but lacking the look of a professional website.
It's a webportal accessed by million of people around the world. So please revamp and give am fresh new look to ...
kaloo(Germany) June 1, 2007 20:02
| | | NOT AT ALL
India in no case is tourists friendly. even higher authorities r also not amiable sometimes with the tourists, forget other people associated persons...
shikha_s(secunderabad,india) May 26, 2007 15:41
| | | YES ONLY TO TOURISTS WHO ARE INDIA FRIENDLY >>>
those poor tourists who ome to Delhi & Mumbai expecting a hep Shanghai or a cool Rio de Jeneiro are aghast , but those who come to do slum tours , eat sparsely and like to sleep on badly used linen in...
giri223(delhi) May 23, 2007 18:19
| | | | Re: YES ONLY TO TOURISTS WHO ARE INDIA FRIENDLY >>>
That is why I confine myself to the four walls of my room!...
mkbajaj May 26, 2007 12:37
| | | Is India tourist friendly?
No, not at all. People are friendly to you only because they want your money, and we all know that, we only let them have it because we cant see them belittling themselves to the extent they do....
romeeza(auckland, new zealand) May 20, 2007 09:32
| | | Is India.....
Well off course!You have to be friendly in order to rip the tourist off....
mul3144(Toronto,Canada) May 10, 2007 05:20
| | | Sorry state of indian Tourism
Sir,
When opening the Incredible India website Home Page One has to see an array of contest advertisements
I have wasted upto 60 minutes of my precious time in entering all these contests. I...
abiramikumaran(Dharmapuri) April 21, 2007 16:55
| | | india can be tourist friendly only when.........
our peninsula is a land of multi-cultures and a land of varied climates.we are blessed with all the beauties of nature like the snowcapped himalayas,the green forests,the deserts ,and then the beaches...
shinyangelin(coimbatore) April 17, 2007 19:34
| | | people friendly/government not
It is pity to see the very poor infrastructure and facilities in Ajantha and ellora cave temples. Our politicians never care about tourism. we are long way to go. We have the best historic places in t...
needhi April 5, 2007 20:03
| | | is our country visitor friendly
It is extremely painful to admit & I'm rather ashamed to do so, it is far from that. A tourist
is taken for granted to be a fool & someone whose pockets are to be emptied at the slightest opportunity...
Shabbir(bhopal) February 28, 2007 17:31
| | | yes, but there is lot of room for improvement
while the common man in India very warm and kind hearted and believes in "athithi devo bhava" there are some areas where we need to improve to be a tourist friendly country.
1. Need to invest heavi...
svicon(Jodhpur, India) February 22, 2007 18:39
| | | No way
Reason:
1) No good infrastructure like roads, in tourism industry.
2) Corruption in the tourism industry.
3) Not organized.
4) Not good & enough accommodations available, Very costly.
5) Rarely k...
sharieff February 16, 2007 11:04
| | | is India tourist friendly? yes & no
Yes, the people of India are warm & friendly and welcome tourists from all over the world, it is often their main source of income. We have had wonderful holidays in Goa and now we've retired we can s...
keithengland(bradford,england) February 12, 2007 13:50
| | | | Re: is India tourist friendly? yes & no
Yes you are right. People are friendly but the bribery and lack of infrastructure is worrisome. The politiicians are corrupted to the core. Unfortunately British brought the bribery, corruption cultur...
needhi April 2, 2007 04:28
| | | IS INDIA TOURIST FRIENDLY?
Yes India is tourist friendly, with many travel portals to help the world-wide travelers.
Even if people in India seem not to co-operate, we always have many infos. available on websites and web p...
travelgotravel February 12, 2007 12:18
| | | Yes No....
Is India tourist friendly?
In some places Yes
In some(many) places NO
The government(both State and Central) should identify the places where the tourists are often cheated. If necessary actions ar...
godVishnu(Sathyamangalam) January 28, 2007 15:49
| | | Is India Tourist Friendly?
No. Not at all. You go to any State or Central Government Tourist bureau promoting Tourism and ask for a Map, the answer is either "No stock or expected soon". Or go to the Web site of State Tourist ...
sottovoce(Bangalore) January 26, 2007 18:34
| | | Our tourism is a disgrace
Foreign tourists to India are raped and killed on a weekly basis.
It is getting worse by the day and is now out of control
...
cpeters(madras, india) January 18, 2007 07:05
| | | | Re: Our tourism is a disgrace
except in our vibrant gujarat under aptful leadership of shree MODIJI all other esp cong ruled staes are going to be dangerous to travel by not foregners but local people even...
mamishpat(india) January 25, 2007 00:32
| | | is india tourist friendly
yes specially the village people & the north indian...
attasobeh(Chandigarh, India ) January 13, 2007 08:27
| | | India is getting medical travel friendly
Today India offers World Class Medical Facilities, comparable with any of the western countries. India has state of the art Hospitals and the best qualified doctors. With the best infrastructure, the ...
rai_monica(Delhi, India) January 6, 2007 19:13
| | | | Re: India is getting medical travel friendly
but i don't think by just giving facilities at a lower price makes india a tourist destination!!!tourists still scare coming to india due to terrorist scare...take d case of pitt-jolie visit to pune.....
nikhilesh_sharma(pune,india) January 10, 2007 14:39
| | | NO
INDIA IS TOURIST FRIENDLY WITH HER AMAZING BEAUTY. BUT NOT THE INDIANS, WITH THEIR OWN DISGUSTING BEHAVIOUR....
BAVYA(CHENNAI, INDIA) January 3, 2007 14:12
| | | | Re: NO
There will be SOME people in all the countries, in all the places with a disusting character. We shouldn't judge the people of the whole country to be like that....
godVishnu(Sathyamangalam) January 28, 2007 15:42
| | | | Re: NO
we can't judge the whole india with few people's behaviour.there wd be just few whose behaviour would be disgusting not..instead INDIA is a place where you will get people like gems too..
as there ar...
jgopal(Delhi, India) January 13, 2007 09:59
| | | Abolish dual tariff system for foreigners
Government must abolish the dual tariff system followed by the hotels and airlines. This is a kind of discrimination showed to our visitors and is not regarded as a friendly gesture by many tourists. ...
sukuji November 29, 2006 11:46
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yes but when are we going to get cleanliness in our hospitals, streets and roads. it must start from schools.
local authorities can help by collecting tax namely property tax and sales tax to build ...
spk4(london) November 26, 2006 15:04
| | | India the next destination for Travel and Health
Medical tourism is a term coined which covers patients travelling across the globe for tourism purposes clubbing their requirements for treatment of acute illness, elective surgeries such as cardiolog...
rai_monica(Delhi, India) November 19, 2006 19:21
| | | Not at all......
India spends many on useless projects rather than some useful stuffs like tourism board....u can see this most of our tourist spots all over the nation...india is a nation of rich natural and cult...
sivainnovates November 19, 2006 18:05
| | | | Re: Not at all......
not at all it is hill on earth compared to europe.people need education including the leaders who spend money on arms rather than on education and facilities for the nation....
spk4(london) November 26, 2006 14:47
| | | stop exploiting them
when tourists come to india the taxi drivers and shop keepers have a tendency to charge more than usual from them.it should be stoped urgently.i think there will be a department in every airport for t...
randeepster(Chennai,India) November 17, 2006 14:40
| | | YES, WE ARE FRIENDLY TO ALL
YES. THAT IS WHY TOURISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD VISIT INDIA EVERY YEAR...
DipakMitra November 14, 2006 15:51
| | | | Re: YES, WE ARE FRIENDLY TO ALL
very good :)...
ashish_khare(lucknow,india) November 16, 2006 16:01
| | | INDIA BUT NOT INDIANS
india is tourist friendly with its tourism policy,advertising,tourism ministry and beatiful locations,climate BUT indians are not tourist friendly.when a new person enters into (alightment at airport...
varakuka(chennai) November 9, 2006 17:19
| | | INDIA BUT NOT INDIANS
india is very much tourist friendly with it's attractive tourism policy,advertising,active torism minister and its beautiful locations,uniti in diversity.But indians are not tourist friendly.from a p...
varakuka(chennai) November 8, 2006 15:27
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