India, Oct. 12 -- India's tourism future depends not merely on showcasing its rich heritage but on building partnerships among government, industry, technology and local communities to create memorable experiences, generate livelihoods and ensure that tourism-led prosperity reaches the people who keep its civilisation alive

India has never suffered from a shortage of destinations. What it has occasionally lacked is the institutional imagination to make the world discover them, reach them, experience them and, most importantly, return to them.

Our civilisational inheritance is almost without parallel: ancient cities and living traditions, sacred landscapes and wildlife, architecture and crafts, cuisine and festivals, mountains and coastl...