INDIA: Tourism industry threaten by spate of attacks

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Updated January 28, 2008 20:46:45

India's tourism ministry is finally waking up to growing cases of rapes and molestations against foreign tourists. A meeting with state tourism secretaries took stock of the security measures for foreign travellers especially women.

Presenter: Murali Krishnan
Speakers: Ambika Soni, India's Tourism Minister; Seema Misra, social activist; Jamie Barnum, US tourist; Prof Sanjay Srivastava, sociologist

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