India being a land of cultural and geographical diversity has always been a very popular tourist spot over the years. And not to forget tourism economically contributed to the country’s GDP at around 3% in the year 2016, which is about US$2,229.8bn. Over the past years the government has contributed a lot to make Indian tourism a better experience for all the tourists out there. The most common and simplest meaning of tourism is, ‘the commercial organisation and operation of holidays and visit to places of interest’. And a tourist can be defined as the person, who makes a tour away from home for leisure, business or other purpose for more than a day but less than year. Mainly the following are the most popular kinds of tourists: