Agoda ranks Guwahati as India’s fastest-growing tourist destination

Move over Mumbai and Delhi – there’s a new star rising in India’s tourism landscape. Guwahati, the bustling gateway to Northeast India, has surprised tourism experts by jumping from nowhere to somewhere spectacular, landing the top spot in India’s top 20 international visitor destinations after not even making the top 50 list previously, according to a new report by digital travel platform Agoda.

For a city that was once seen as just a stopover point, the transformation has been remarkable. International tourist bookings in Guwahati’s hotels have skyrocketed, with Assam Tourism Secretary Padmapani Bora noting that these aren’t just transit stays. “Agoda’s report is about accommodation bookings. They are searching to stay here, it’s not transit to go elsewhere – they are living here,” Bora emphasises.

The transformation hasn’t happened by accident. “For the last couple of years, footfall has really increased in Assam in particular and entire Northeast,” Bora explains. “The major…