The Planning Commission's High Level Group on services sector has released a services competitiveness report on India which reveals grim figures for the tourism industry. It pegs the room shortage in the country at 1,50,000 rooms by 2010, out of which more than 1,00,000 will be in the budget category.
The report also points out that unofficial estimates put the number of rooms at one million. But the end of 2006-07, the number of rooms in hotels in star categories approved by the Ministry of Tourism was only 1,00,000, out of which 30 per cent were in five-star and five star-deluxe categories. The room crunch is further evident by absolute figures - the number of rooms in Bangkok (60,000) far exceeds the number of rooms in Delhi (20,000) and Mumbai (25,000) put together.
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