Canadian tourists wooed by Indian Roadshow

Canadian tourists wooed by Indian Roadshow – Tourism Secretary Sujit Banerjee has said, India holds a strong appeal for Canadians to explore inexpensive Indian spiritual, cultural heritage and medical tourism. Road show organised by Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Indian Chapter to attract North American tourists. The road show aimed at selling India as an exotic place to Canadians to further raise foreign tourist traffic from 5.1 million last year. Top North Americans tour operators and civil aviation companies have shown keen interest in various Indian tourism products ranging from glimpses of India’s spiritual and cultural heritage, ecotourism, medical tourism, and wild life to rural tourism. Currently only about 400,000 visitors travel between India and Canada each year, with the Canadians, mostly NRIs, accounting for 80 per cent of the tourist traffic between the two countries.