Tourist Destinations in India

Key tourist destinations across various states of India.
Link opens into list of hotels, resorts and other budget accommodation options at each destination

Accommodation Options and Hotel Directory

In India,tourism is still a nascent industry and account for US$41.8-billion or 5.3% of GDP. The tourism potential represented by many and diverse attractions has hardly been exploited in an organized manner. Some of the popular destinations like Ooty in Tamil Nadu, Shimla in Himachal Pradesh are over exploited without much planning and thought for the future, while other parts of India have minimal infrastructure to cater to the needs of the tourists.

Domestic tourists far outweigh in-bound international tourists. In 2009, there were estimated 650 Million domestic tourists as against an inbound arrival of 5.11 Million. Employee benefits (like leave travel concession) induced tourism, visit to relatives and pilgrimage trips are most popular tourist segments. Of late, Weekend travel has taken off in cities with concentration of working professionals like the cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

There is a severe scarcity of quality hotel rooms across India. As per the Government’s own admission, there are Only 109,000 rooms in 1,980 hotels across the country that was registered in the official Hotel directory in the year 2006. Scarcity of hotel rooms in several cities such as Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru has resulted in rates of over US$300 per night.

Accommodation scene in India is dominated not by leading hotel chains but by many hotels and guest houses that are run by local entrepreneurs. The recent phenomemnon has been the homestays and Bed & breakfasts started by micro entreprenuers

In a scenario like India, it is important to have sites like Travelpaisa which lists and reviews such small hotels, homestays in a simple easy to use hotel directory. To help the budget traveler and also small time hospitality entreprenuer is the aim of our site