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Tourism Minister R. Rajendran connected Saturday (September 27, 2025) said that a full of 24.21 crore tourists had visited Tamil Nadu successful the past 8 months, and soon a league volition beryllium held successful Chennai to pull investments in the tourism sector.
On Saturday, the Minister participated in the World Tourism Day celebrations astatine the Forest Department cheque station astatine Yercaud foothills. He distributed cloth bags and histrion saplings to the tourists, connected behalf of the Forest Department and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board. The Minister besides threw effect balls adjacent the cheque post.
Earlier, the Minister flagged disconnected a World Tourism Day rally astatine Salem Collectorate successful which assemblage students and the nationalist participated.
The Minister told reporters that Chief Minister M.K. Stalin was implementing assorted schemes for the improvement of tourism crossed the State and had truthful acold allocated ₹700 crore. Works are nether mode astatine tourism spots to supply amended facilities. As of August 2025, 24.21 crore tourists had visited Tamil Nadu.
Based connected the instructions from the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister, a league volition beryllium held successful Chennai to pull investments to the Tourism Department, the Minister added.
The Minister said that the Chief Minister had released a abstracted argumentation for Tamil Nadu tourism. Elaborating connected this year’s World Tourism Day taxable - ‘Tourism and Sustainable Transformation’, helium said the purpose was to emphasise tourism’s powerfulness to beforehand affirmative change.
District Collector R. Brindha Devi, Salem MP T.M. Selvaganapathi, Salem Corporation Mayor A. Ramachandran, District Revenue Officer (DRO) R. Ravikumar, Deputy Mayor M. Saradha Devi and officials participated.
