In today’s Era,various industries are settling up in India and tourism is one of them. Tourism being one of the leading industries in India has set up the benchmark within last few years. Talking about today’s scenario, the tourism industry is facing a huge loss because of the deadly humanitarian disease “COVID-19” that came at the end of 2019. It had led to the LOCKDOWN nationwide, leading towards the downfall of the hotel and tourism industry. Global covid-19 pandemic has challenged this sensitive industry with unprecedented circumstances and repercussions. Although, after the second wave, the situation is becoming better day by day, the tourist visits at famous stations have increased rapidly that may be harmful for the country and virus may further spread to the country and there are several reasons for increase in the tourist visit at different parts of the globe. These reasons have been considered as criteria for the study. The main objective of this work is to find out the main reasons why people are getting attracted towards tourism. In this work an AHP approach been proposed to solve the above discussed problem. Total seven criteria’s have been taken from expert opinions which have been considered for study. It has been found that the reason “Upcoming 3rd Wave” has the maximum impact than other reasons for increment of people at tourist places.

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