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The Andhra Pradesh Tourism Department has been selected arsenic the ‘Best Tourism Promotion State’ by the Global Travel Market (GTM 2026), 1 of South India’s largest question and commercialized expos.
As portion of this recognition, Tourism, Culture and Cinematography Minister Kandula Durgesh has been officially invited to person the ‘Metro Expedition – GTM Tourism Award 2026’, astatine a relation scheduled connected June 4 astatine The Leela Hotel successful Kovalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Keralam
The grant is being seen arsenic designation of the Andhra Pradesh government’s assertive tourism promotion strategy, innovative reforms and large-scale branding initiatives.
Mr. Durgesh said the State authorities had transformed tourism into a “mission mode” assemblage done argumentation reforms, infrastructure improvement and global-level promotion campaigns. He noted that Andhra Pradesh introduced an industry-friendly Tourism Policy 2024–29, on with peculiar policies for homestays, caravan tourism, structure cities and public-private partnerships.
He informed that the State had attracted implicit ₹20,000 crore successful tourism investments and signed much than 100 MoUs wrong 18 months done capitalist summits, roadshows and planetary outreach programmes, and attributed it to the innovative destination improvement and integer selling initiatives implemented by the Tourism Special Chief Secretary Ajay Jain, Tourism MD Amrapali Kata and the Tourism Department team.
