Publication

The Vision 2020 document released by Prime Minister of India in 2008 for the North-eastern region earmarks infrastructure-led tourism development as one of the primary hopefuls for revenue generation. This brief focuses on government initiatives, whether real or rhetorical, and addresses the key challenges for their failure to deliver. A number of problems beset the region which tends to impede progress of any kind. Of these, three are given pride of place, and all other impediments are subsumed within them: Tourism marketing strategies, infrastructure developments and security and administrative issues.