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Tourist expenditure generates multiple effects with extensive outreach along its value chain. Adding to the demand for a variety of goods and services, tourism offers potential to exploit synergies across a large number of sectors such as agriculture, horticulture, poultry, handicrafts, transport and construction sectors.
Tourism enhances the performance of the tourism sector in an environmentally and culturally sustainable and socially inclusive manner.
- Increase in the duration of stay,
- Distribution of income and benefits from tourism and
- Enhancement of management of natural and cultural heritage sites.
It results in:
- integrated development of high-priority tourism infrastructure in high potential tourism circuits,
- enhanced connectivity and improved environment, utilities, and tourist services,
- improvement of institutional and regulatory frameworks that will ensure coordinated efforts of multiple agencies,promotion of environmentally and culturally sustainable and socially inclusive tourism development,encouragement of private sector and community participation in tourism, and