Anay Kumar^1,, Gurdeep Singh²

Tourism plays an important role in the economy of India. Directly and indirectly tourism generates employment, increases hotels, restaurants and it also helps to increase the economy by increasing transportation etc. In India there are so many seasonal industries which directly depend upon tourism. So this is the need of time to understand the variations in tourism during different months. In this paper, with the help of collection of data from different sources for each month of year the coefficient of variation is calculated .The seasonal tourism plays an important role in Indian economy. So it is taken under consideration for each month’s coefficient of variation and multiple correlation coefficient to provide the basic reasons for the growth and development of tourism in India.

tourism, employment, gross domestic product, foreign tourist arrival, foreign exchange earnings