India's tourism ministry is finally waking up to increasingly growing threat of rapes and molestations on foreign women. A meeting with all state tourism secretaries on security will be conducted on Thursday.
“These kinds of things should not happen in a country that attracts five million tourists and is being looked at by the world as a holiday destination,” Tourism Minister Ambika Soni says.
Incredible India campaign is losing its shine. Most woman tourists who travel to India looking for an incredible experience are met with only trauma. The year 2008 has seen half a dozen cases of rape and molestation reported in three weeks from Goa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala.
What's worse is that these are the states where the tourism ministry's much-touted tourist police exist. For now, tourist police exist in ten states, namely: Goa, Rajasthan, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.
These states also make for Incredible India's top ten destinations for foreign travellers. Statistics released by the ministry show foreigners love to visit Goa, Delhi, Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
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