{"id":23655,"date":"2024-05-23T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T01:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23655"},"modified":"2025-04-07T04:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T22:32:38","slug":"travel-and-tourism-development-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/travel-and-tourism-development-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel &#038; Tourism Development Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Travel &amp; Tourism Development Index:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>second edition<\/strong> of an index that evolved from the series, a flagship index of the World Economic Forum that has been in production since 2007.<\/li>\n<li>It is created in collaboration with the University of Surrey and with input from leading Travel &amp; Tourism (T&amp;T) stakeholder organizations, thought leaders and data partners.<\/li>\n<li>It measures the set of factors and policies that enable the <strong>sustainable and resilient development of T&amp;T.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>India is <strong>ranked 39th,<\/strong> the highest in South Asia and among other lower-middle-income economies.<\/li>\n<li>India&#8217;s new ranking is a notable improvement from its <strong>54th position in the 2021 index<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>On an overall index score of 7, where <strong>1 is the worst, and 7 the best<\/strong>, India scored 4.25. India\u2019s significant leap in the rankings underscores its growing competitiveness in the global tourism landscape.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>The biennial index<\/strong> analyzed the travel and tourism sectors of 119 countries, evaluating them on a range of factors and policies that foster tourism development.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is sustainable tourism?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/travel\/travel-news\/india-ranks-39th-on-the-world-economic-forums-travel-tourism-development\/articleshow\/110341908.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India ranks 39th on the World Economic Forum\u2019s Travel &amp; Tourism Development<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel &#038; Tourism Development Index is the second edition of an index that evolved from the Travel &#038; Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) series, a flagship index of the World Economic Forum that has been in production since 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}