Analyzing tourist preferences in India to crime and threat of terrorism Chhabra Jaya*, Dr. Bhattacharjee Mahua** *Master's Program, Economics, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India **Associate Professor, Amity School of Economics, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India Online published on 27 September, 2019. Abstract Tourism sector contributes around 208.9 billion U.S. dollars to GDP in India as per 2016 statistics. India is the second highest contributor of tourism sector in GDP in Asia-pacific after China. Thus, it is important to focus on tourism sector as a part of economic growth. In this paper, the focus is laid on identifying various social factors that affects foreign tourist preferences to visit India. It was found that natural calamities, crime rate and infrastructure of airways are the major factor that affect foreign tourist preferences. This paper majorly focusses on the types of criminal activities and terrorism as the factor affecting tourist preferences to visit a country. It was found that violent crimes like murder and theft have major influence on tourist preferences. This paper also laid various terrorist cases and identifies the decline in tourist arrival by majorly focusing on the incidence of 26/11 in Mumbai. At last, the paper suggests various policy measures that the government should take in order to control crime which will help to attract foreign tourist arrival in the country. Top Keywords Tourism, Crime, Natural calamities, Terrorism, Tourist preferences. Top |