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The state currently ranks as the 4th most popular destination in the country. Around 12.6 million

domestic tourist and 2,63,000 foreigners visited the state during 2000.

The state attracts around 4% of the foreign tourist arrivals to India. Tourism industry in Karnataka

employed around 1.56 lakh people directly and 3.59 lakh indirectly, generating revenue of

Rs.195.24 crore in 2000.

The Department of Tourism has listed more than 600 good accommodation facilities including

Hotels, Lodges, Resorts, Forest Guest Houses, Inspection Bungalow, Religious lodges etc

(having more than 17000 rooms) all over the State.

Around 12.6 million domestic tourists and 2,63,000 foreigners visited the state during the year

2000.

Tourism industry in Karnataka employed around 1.56 lakh people directly and 3.59 lakh people

indirectly, generating revenue of Rs.195.24 crore in the year 2000.

Projection of Measures and Indicators of Tourism:

Measures and Indicators/Projection in Years 2001 2005 2010 2020

Arrival of Foreign Tourists( Nos in lakh) 2.08 2.53 3.23 5.26

Employment generated by Tourism(Nos in lakh) 3.69 4.49 5.72 9.32

Arrival of Domestic Tourists( Nos in lakh) 180 244.89 359.82 776.83

The tourism contribution in Karnataka to the state GDP has been estimated to be around 12%during the year 2001. The same is expected to grow up to 13% by 2005, 15% by 2010 and 25%

by the year 2020.

The industry also possesses a high Employment Output Ratio.

Every additional Rs. 1 million investment in the industry is expected to generate 47.5 direct jobs.

In Karnataka, the industry employed around 1.56 lakh people directly and 3.59 lakh indirectly and

generated a revenue of Rs.195.24 crore in the year 2001.

Whereas the employment generated by the industry is expected to go up to 9.32 lakh by the year

2020.

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In 2006-07, 25.26 lakh tourists visited the palace, while 24,10,054 visited in 2007-08. The number came

down slightly in 2007-08. In 2008-09, the number of visitors touched 25.16 lakh and the number in 2009-

10 may reach 27 lakh.It is a fact that the palace is among the must-see places in India for international tourists if the number of

such tourists visiting it in February alone is taken into consideration. As many as 10,000 foreign tourists

visited the palace in February, which is a big number in recent years, according to Mr. Avaradi.

He said that on an average, 92,000 to one lakh foreign tourists visited the palace yearly. Thanks to travel

and tour operators in many countries, the number of foreign tourists was rising because of its aggressive

publicity.

The architecture, majesty, maintenance and illumination a re the key features that draw tourists to the

palace. Tourism is thriving in the city as the palace leaves visitors spell- bound, he said.

Importantly, the multilingual audio guide facility in English, Hindi, French, German, Italian, Spanish and

Japanese h elped to attract foreign tourists. Tourists from Russia came to me recently and requested to

ensure audio guide in their language, he said.

The Palace Board introduced the audio guide facility in association with Narrowcasters India, a subsidiary

of Narrowcaster Australia. Incidentally, the palace was the first tourist destination in South India to be

equipped with the audio guide facility, he said.