Shikaras at Dal Lake in Srinagar.INDIA is a big and beautiful country that offers varieties of attraction and tourism products with countless cultural destinations. The foreign tourist arrivals in India has been a steady growth over the last year, touching 5.58 million in 2010 as compared to 2009 which was 5.17 million, there was 8.1 percent growth in 2010. India has vast potential in many fields of tourism like wildlife, monuments, flora and fauna forests, mountains, adventure tourism, beach tourism and spa, which are in abundance. Wellness, medical and health tourism forms the highlight of tourist visits to India. Medical tourism supported by its world-class medical facilities and doctors and ancient healing systems such as Ayurveda and rejuvenating therapy with modern amenities attracts tourists to India from all over the world. The exotic, tourist destinations and medical tourism combined provides an opportunity to tourists to not only avail of world class medical facilities, but also to visit some of the best tourist destinations and heritage sites in the world. From the cost point of view, India is most suited, in terms of excellent quality and cost effective health care services, provided by experienced internationally trained doctors with the support of most modern amenities. Medical Tourism in India has grown at a cumulative annual growth rate of 27 percent between 2009-2012. The cost of Medical services in India is almost 30 percent lower than that in Western countries and the most cost effective in South East Asia. The facilities for medical treatments and investigation are done with advanced diagnostic tools. The cost of infertility treatment in India is almost 25 percent of that in advanced countries. India can fascinate tourists in countless attractions such as dance, music, Bollywood and various tourist destinations. The country also provides opportunities for investment, and for holding of world-class international conferences and conventions. India today boasts world class facilities for conferences and exhibitions and airports of global standard to cater to the needs of businessmen. The rapid growth and improvement in accessibility and infrastructure, well trained human resources and multi-faceted marketing campaigns under the banner of Incredible India have given a good mileage to tourism sector and had helped in making India one of the most desired holiday destination in the world. The Gulf and the Middle East is an important market for Indian tourism and there is an incessant and positive growth of foreign tourist arrivals from the region over the last 2 to 3 years with the year 2010 having registered a 17 percent growth over the pervious year. The tourist arrivals from countries such as the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman, Jordan, Republic of Yemen, and Republic of Turkey have registered positive growth. The myriad natural beauty, various fair and festival, exotic beaches, architectural and intricate carvings on monuments, forts and palaces, heritage hotels, houseboats in Kerala, Shikaras in Kashmir, national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, luxury trains as well as various types of the accommodation to meet the requirements of the tourists are some of the many reasons to visit the land of Incredible India.
