The locations of non secular tourism earned ₹1,34,543 crore in 2022, up from ₹65,070 crore in 2021, knowledge launched by the ministry of tourism stated.

While the ministry of tourism doesn’t preserve the income generated by way of spiritual centres, it does have an account of overseas alternate earnings.

In 2018, the income was ₹1,94,881 crore, adopted by ₹2,11,661 crore in 2019 and a big dip because of the pandemic in 2020 to ₹50,136 crore.

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The variety of home vacationers that visited locations of pilgrimage have been 1,433 million in 2022, whereas 6.64 million overseas vacationers visited India.

In 2021, the numbers stood at 677 million and 1.05 million, respectively.

“Development of tourism is primarily the responsibility of the concerned State Government/Union Territory Administration, however, Ministry of Tourism under its scheme viz. National Mission on Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual, Heritage Augmentation Drive (PRASHAD) provides Financial Assistance to the State Governments/Union Territories for creation of pilgrimage and/or heritage tourism infrastructure at the pre-identified destinations across the country,” the ministry of tourism stated.

It has accepted a complete variety of 45 tasks within the nation below PRASHAD Scheme for an quantity of ₹1586.10 crore to date.

PRASHAD scheme was launched in 2014-2015 below the ministry of tourism.

The scheme focuses on creating and figuring out pilgrimage websites throughout India for enriching the spiritual tourism expertise.