Indian tourism needs infrastructure and security upgrades
The Tourism Minister also admitted that tourism arrivals to the state had dropped considerably and also attributed inflated hotel room rates on online portals as one of the reasons for the drop
People feel that spending time at foreign destinations is a cheaper option than Goa
Sardesai also made scathing comments about tourists from north India, 'who were trying to convert Goa into a Haryana'
Goa received 783 international flights between October 2015 and April 2016, the lowest in five years