{"id":4103,"date":"2007-03-30T02:52:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T02:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/03\/average-tourist-spend-india-higher-france-infrastructure-crippled\/"},"modified":"2007-03-30T02:52:59","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T02:52:59","slug":"average-tourist-spend-india-higher-france-infrastructure-crippled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/03\/average-tourist-spend-india-higher-france-infrastructure-crippled\/","title":{"rendered":"Average Tourist spend in India is higher than in France.. but infrastructure is crippled!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The woes of Indian tourism are many.. things are improving.. but the still the infrastructure is low grade and very expensive for that value.  My wife and her friends had gone to Agra and Jaipur and found that the hotels there \u2013 almost at $100\/night \u2013 were terrible!  The demand is high and the supply is very low.. and the standards are down like crazy!  As more and more work moves to India.. the issues of all the industries is the same \u2013 high demand, low standards.  This collage from \"The Pioneer\" explains how a typical tourist spends more time and money in India.. but that could be a thing of the past.. moreover we need more numbers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" style=\"margin: 5px\" width=\"512\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i43.photobucket.com\/albums\/e375\/deshkapoor\/tourism.jpg\"><!--break--><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#008;text-align:right\"><em>Powered by<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qumana.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Qumana<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woes of Indian tourism are many.. things are improving.. but the still the infrastructure is low grade and very expensive for that value.  My wife and her friends had gone to Agra and Jaipur and found that the hotels there &#8211; almost at $100\/night &#8211; were terrible!  The demand is high and the supply is very low.. and the standards are down like crazy!  As more and more work moves to India.. the issues of all the industries is the same &#8211; high demand, low standards.  This collage from &quot;The Pioneer&quot; explains how a typical tourist spends more time and money in India.. but that could be a thing of the past.. moreover we need more numbers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" style=\"margin: 5px\" width=\"512\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i43.photobucket.com\/albums\/e375\/deshkapoor\/tourism.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-travel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Average Tourist spend in India is higher than in France.. but infrastructure is crippled!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The woes of Indian tourism are many.. things are improving.. but the still the infrastructure is low grade and very expensive for that value. 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