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Located at the heart of India, Madhya Pradesh has various tourism opportunities to offer. It has a forest area cover of 77,700 sq km, famous for Sal trees and bamboo. The state has nine national parks, 25 wildlife sanctuaries the major ones being Bandhavgarh, Pench, Kanha, Panna, Satpura Wildlife Sanctuary, Chambal Ghadiyal Sanctuary etc.
The state is also the abode of three World Heritage sites- Khajuraho, Bhimbetka and Sanchi. Orchha, Gwalior & Mandu are other beautiful architectural sites out of many others. Further, it boasts of unique places including World’s first Broad gauge Rail Restaurant, ‘Sair Sapata’ at Bhopal and ‘Holiday on Wheels’ by Caravan Tourism.
Madhya Pradesh is also promoting itself as a vibrant film location. Caravan Tourism has been very popular not only among tourists but also with the film industry.
One of the biggest achievements in tourism was the Jal Mahotsav, celebrated with water sports and adventure activities in February this year. MP Tourism also facilitated the National Conventions of IATO, ATOI and ADTOI. Its ‘MP Tourism Year’ celebrated in 2015- 16 focused on various tourism parameters.
MP Tourism has made policies and incentives to promote various tourism projects in the state and to facilitate their easy implementation. The main amongst them are its forward looking Wayside Amenity policy, land allotment policy and incentive for heritage projects. Incidentally, bids are out for three heritage projects.
Source: travelnewsdigest.in