Incentivise online content about unexplored tourism destinations
We will introduce an Online Content Initiative to incentivise content cre-ators to create content about unexplored tourist destinations.
Bharatiya Janata Party · Goa Legislative Assembly Election 2022
Last updated 20 Jun 2026
“We shall double the number of annual tourist arrivals in the state in the next five years by harnessing the potential for inland tourism, medical tourism and promoting heritage and spiritual tourism, while augmenting the cur-rent infrastructure around adventure sports and beach tourism.”
Partial. The commitment has one primary numerical completion threshold: annual tourist arrivals must double within five years. Inland, medical, heritage, spiritual, adventure and beach tourism are mechanisms for achieving that target and are not separated into additional entries here. Calendar year 2022 is used as the consistent first full-year post-election baseline. An official Assembly reply records 70,18,945 domestic and 1,69,005 foreign tourist arrivals in 2022, producing a total baseline of 71,87,950. Doubling therefore requires at least 1,43,75,900 annual arrivals. Official Goa Tourism data records 1,08,02,410 arrivals in 2025, comprising 1,02,84,608 domestic and 5,17,802 foreign tourists. This is an increase of approximately 50.3 percent over the 2022 baseline and represents about 75 percent of the doubled target, but it is not a doubling. The result also remains below twice the normal pre-pandemic 2019 level of 80,64,400 arrivals. The pandemic-depressed 2021 total is not used as the sole baseline because doing so would treat reopening and normal tourism recovery as achievement of the manifesto growth target. Significant growth and tourism diversification are confirmed, but the quantified target has not been reached. Status partial.
Goa recorded approximately 108.02 lakh tourist arrivals during calendar year 2025, around 50.3 percent above the 2022 baseline.
View sourceThe Government reported that total tourist arrivals had increased from approximately 71.88 lakh in 2022 to approximately 104.09 lakh in 2024.
View sourceDirectorate of Planning, Statistics and Evaluation - Goa Economy in Figures 2026, tourism statistics
Government of Goa - Goa Economy in Figures 2024
GTDC - Goa Records Robust 21 Percent Growth in Tourism, Sets New Milestones in 2024
Department of Tourism, Government of Goa - Tourist arrivals 2025 figures reflect continued momentum
Department of Tourism, Government of Goa - Goa Tourism in 2025: Growth, Recognition and Transformative Vision
Goa Legislative Assembly - Domestic and international tourist arrivals for 2022, 2023 and 2024
BJP Goa Assembly Election 2022 manifesto
We will introduce an Online Content Initiative to incentivise content cre-ators to create content about unexplored tourist destinations.
We will set up an Amusement Park in Goa and we will construct the Goa Marine Planet with an underwater Tunnel Aquarium/Zoo on a PPP basis.
We will introduce Caravan Tourism through Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC) to facilitate travelers to embark on a once-in-a-life-time experience involving the luxury of caravans.

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