ABSTRACT
According to the World Travel and Tourism council, India was a tourism hotspot from 2009–2018, with the highest 10-year growth potential. This chapter examines the trends and patterns of domestic tourism flow in India using two rounds of nationally representative secondary sources of domestic tourism in India, 2008–09 and 2014–15 National Sample Survey (NSS), respectively. Furthermore, it aims to understand the ranking from origin to destination states by various domestic purposes applying a correlation matrix and to identify the patterns of domestic tourist flow using the method population adjusted travel index (PTGI). Moreover, results suggest that in terms of different purposes, destination states for leisure trips were mostly tourists holidaying and making medical and health related trips, and for non-leisure trips, the majority of tourists were doing social and pilgrimage trips. Empirical results also indicate that in the year 2008–09, some of the northern states like Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand and Delhi; central states like Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and southern states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are generating more tourists per the index in terms of their population size. Furthermore, this chapter will be helpful for policy makers’ stakeholder and administrative purposes for the development of tourism circuits.
