By Rohit Hangal
As elections heat up the already hot Indian summer, the Indian tourism industry, taking the cue, also logs on to the Atma Nirbhar vehicle!
The big fat Indian wedding razzmatazz has already taken a cue from the Prime Minister’s call to shift destination weddings in India. The scale and spectacle of the recent Ambani wedding just proved that. With another international inbound season seeing marginal increases, domestic travel sure saved the day for Indian hotels, with booming rates. Destination weddings in India have also pushed hotel rates to a new high, which the Indian Inbound players now find themselves to be the preliminary collateral damage!
And then the Prime Minister’s trip to the pristine turquoise blue waters of Lakshadweep happened. I cannot think of a tourism-related geopolitical message in the history of independent India. Over 1300 islands, languidly languishing around India’s 7000 kilometres of coastline, found themselves in a very happy…