Foreign women avoid India owing to sexual crimes: Survey
The number of foreign tourists visiting India has fallen by 25 per cent since December, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India has found in a recent survey which covered 1,200 tour operators around the country. The fact will frustrate government plans to improve the number of tourists by 12 per cent every year.
Women
tourists
are
even
more
afraid
to
visit
India.
The
number
of
women
travelers
has
diminished
by
35
per
cent
as
women
from
Britain,
Canada
and
the
US
have
been
found
cancelling
scheduled
trips,
local
business
operators
told
the
group.
According
to
many,
the
tourists
were
asking
through
emails
whether
travelling
in
India
was
safe.
A
brutal
gangrape
in
New
Delhi
had
shaken
the
world
and
although
the
media
and
political
authorities
have
pursued
the
issue
of
crime
against
women
since
that
incident,
the
crime
rate
against
women
hasn't
decreased.
Recently, a Korean and Swiss women were raped in the state of Madhya Pradesh, causing further embarrassment to the country. More recently, a British woman said she had jumped from her hotel window to avoid an indecent conduct from a hotel official.
D S Rawat, secretary general of the association said India was trying to improve its battered image in front of the world but the latest trend in foreigners' visit shows that the effort is still a distance away from reaching a satisfactory conclusion.
Tourism has taken a serious beating in cities across the country.
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