Assam witnessed a whopping increase of tourist footfalls in 2023, says state Tourism Minister

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Assam Tourism Minister, Jayanta Malla Baruah. He met leading tour operators from Delhi to promote Assam as tourist destination and to strengthen cooperation with tourism partners. As many as 25 Delhi based tour operators, travel agents and travel journal houses gathered at the conference hall of Assam House here late evening on Wednesday to prepare attractive packages for promoting the state in a big way. The Tourism Minister asked the tour operators to work in tandem with the Tourism department and other stakeholders to promote the tourism sector which has huge potential with its rich cultures, traditions, flora and fauna and make the state a tourist destination. Baruah asked the tour operators to come up with attractive packages that cater to the tastes of the tourists visiting different destinations. The Minister said the government would arrange to take the tour operators from Delhi to Assam for a familiarisation tour that would help them to make packages tailored to the needs of tourists.

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«The Tourism Minister has asked the tour operators to come up with mutually beneficial strategies and packages that will greatly boost tourism in the state. It augurs well that the leading tour operators have evinced keen interest in the tourism industry in Assam,» said a tourism official, adding that they are happy that tourism has been declared as an industry in Assam and that a tourist-friendly atmosphere prevails in Assam. Emerging from the meeting which lasted for more than an hour, Minister Baruah told media persons that the meeting with leading tour operators from Delhi has been convened at a very short notice and