There were less than three million foreign tourists visited India in 2020, a dip of around 75 per cent as compared to the previous year, due to travel restrictions imposed to control the coronavirus pandemic, the government informed Parliament. Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel said that while in 2019, the number of foreign tourist arrivals was 10.93 million, the number stood at 10.56 million in 2018.It was in 2017 that foreign tourist arrivals crossed the 10 million-mark. Moreover, 1,029,256 British Tourist arrived in India in the Year 2019. 369,408 British Tourists availed Indian eVisa (India Online Visa) in the year 2019 making them the highest users of electronic Visa for India . The UK government announced that by July all adults will be COVID 19 vaccinated. The Vaccine is already showing positive results and British citizens will start to make plans for travelling holiday abroad. You are invited to answer this questionnaire relate to India as a tourist destination. This survey should approximately take 5-10 minutes to complete. There is no right and wrong answers. Your data will be saved anonymously. The aim of this project is to understand how social media influence their intention to revisit India as holiday destination after the COVID-19 vaccine roll out. It is up to you to decide whether or not to take part. If you do decide to take part, you will be given this information sheet to read. You can withdraw from participation at any time and without giving a reason, simply by closing the browser page. Please note that once you have completed and submitted your survey responses, we are unable to remove your anonymised responses from the study. Deciding to take part or not will not impact upon you . This study does not intend to provide any specific benefits to individuals taking part, it is hoped to understand the influence of social media on the decision to revisit India. Could you please complete this questionnaire ? Participation in this study is on the basis of consent: it is not mandatory to complete the survey, and you can change your mind at any point before submitting the survey responses. We will use your data on the basis that it is necessary for the conduct of research, which is an activity in the public interest. We put safeguards in place to ensure that your responses are kept secure and only used as necessary for this research study and associated activities such as a research audit. Once you have submitted your survey response it will not be possible for us to remove it from the study analysis because you will not be identifiable. The anonymous information collected may be used to support other research projects in the future and access to it in this form will not be restricted. It will not be possible for you to be identified from this data. Also, we will not ask any your personal information in this survey. Anonymised data will be added to BU’s Online Research Data Repository (a central location where data is stored) and which will be publicly available. 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact [email protected] or [email protected] . 𝐈𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 Any concerns about the study should be directed to Bournemouth University by email to [email protected].
















