By Vipul Kashyap

New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- e tourism industry welcomed the Central government's move of considering to resume issuing tourist visas as the COVID-19 cases have declined.

"The tourism industry faced a loss of 7 lakh crore in the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, " Ease My trip co-founder Prashant Pitti told ANI while welcoming the Centre's move.

"There are so many people, travel agents and guides whose livelihoods depend on international tourism and our tourism economy has almost dipped. This will be a relief for all if the government is considering it," said Prashant.

"We hope our industry will rise again as we have a huge number of people who connect to us on a daily basis and ask about foreign trips and are e...