World Tourism Day

The World Tourism Day is celebrated on September 27th every year. This date is chosen to coincide with an important milestone in world tourism. World Tourism Day provides a platform to generate awareness and provides knowledge about the tourism and importance of it. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness on the role of tourism within the international community and to demonstrate how it affects social, cultural, political and economic values worldwide.  World Tourism Day, which signifies the importance of tourism in broadening the cultural horizons of world citizens, is celebrated with great vigour in Telangana. The Telangana state government organise a myriad of activities that encourage global tourism in Telangana. The activities that are conducted across the state focus on many issues like heritage, tourist safety, the cultural identity of the state and more. The Department presents Telangana State Tourism Excellence awards under various categories, so as to encourage healthy competition in order to promote tourism activities in the State. The World Tourism celebrations will be celebrated in grand manner at Capital city i.e., Hyderabad and also in the districts for promoting tourism in the State and to attract more number of tourists both domestic and foreign to the State.