India, Sept. 7 -- To develop better tourism policies and world-class infrastructure facilities, the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has started Domestic Tourism Expenditure Survey (DTES) in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The main objective of the survey is to understand expenditure on domestic tourism along with information on household, visitors' profile and trip characteristics in relation to domestic overnight trips, required for preparation of Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) by the Ministry of Tourism (MoT).
A senior official at the Directorate of Information, Publicity and Tourism Office (IP&T) said, "The DTES will help us understand better about tourism patterns and expenditure by travellers and their...