By IANS
New Delhi : The boom in the tourism industry has the potential to provide employment to more than 200,000 trained people by 2010, said Minister of Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni Tuesday.
Speaking to a group of students of Tourism and Hospitality Management from Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, Soni said with the ongoing tourism boom in the country, sufficient trained manpower is required to meet the growing demands in hotel and travel related agencies.
“The sector has immense potential to provide employment as more than 200,000 trained people will be required in the next three years by 2010,” she said.
She said tourism has become a high profile sector with 400 million domestic tourists and about five million foreign tourists in the country.
Urging the students to utilize the potential of employment generation in the tourism sector, the minister said they should not look for government jobs only but create opportunities for themselves to become entrepreneurs.
Soni said there are many schemes to provide financial subsidies and incentives in the tourism sector and if someone is talented there is no dearth of opportunities for them in the sector.