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Travel & Policy · June 2026 A decade of India's tourism numbers — and what they actually mean The Ministry of Tourism just published a ten-year retrospective. The data is real. The self-congratulation is expected. The story underneath is worth reading. Posted June 27, 2026  ·  EXPERIMENTERÉ Every few years, a government report lands that is simultaneously promotional and genuinely informative. The Ministry of Tourism's India on the Move: A Decade of Tourism-Led Growth , released on June 25, 2026, belongs to that category. It is worth engaging with seriously — not because it tells an unvarnished story, but because the data it presents, even filtered through the language of official optimism, reveals something meaningful about where India's tourism sector has actually arrived. The numbers first, because they are the least disputable part. 181M+ International arrivals, 2014–2025 93M Foreign tourist arrivals in same period...

  In the summer of 2002, I had no plan. I had a degree and a vague, urgent feeling that I wanted to work with words and ideas. I cleared a written exam, sat before a faculty board at Jadavpur University — alone, a little nervous — and explained why I wanted to study Mass Communications in the evening class. That was the beginning. learning about the newest city of my life- Kolkata. Love and Hate relationship with this city, still goes on. Newspaper writing and its craft was straightforward: find something true, make it clear, give it to people. The machines involved were a computer and a dial-up connection. I worked as a struggling reporter journalist in Kolkata, putting up in a 5X3 mess bari at Moulali, for long was getting difficult. Hated to leave the city, but 2004 had different plans for me. I moved to New Delhi. writing blogs, managing operations for a Noida based KPO Vedainformatics, with a team of ‘writers’ and super writers. learning backend coding and knowing what CMS...