States can't tell people what to eat, drink: Amitabh Kant on tourism sector

Kant added that India needs to identify at least four-five states as tourist destinations

States should not decide what a tourist should eat or drink, NITI Aayog Chairman Amitabh Kant said on Friday at the World Economic Forum (WEF) event amid growing prohibition on food and alcohol by state governments.

"Indian states can't get into what a tourist wants to eat and drink. What he wants to eat and drink is his individual business and not the states' business," Kant, also the driver of the Incredible India campaign, said at the India Economic Summit, organised in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry.

Speaking at the session on tourism, titled ‘Living up to the