'Our overseas office in London is actively promoting India and will organise special roadshows there in this regard, so that people travel across India when they come here for the Commonwealth Games,' Nandan told IANS.

The tourism ministry also has a number of other initiatives to attract tourists to the country.

'We want to encourage tourist arrival from those countries from which we are already getting a good tourist arrival. Therefore, we have a series of roadshows in the Scandinavian countries -- Finland, Sweden and Norway -- at the end of this month to promote India. Next month we will go to Russia with a similar aim,' Selja said.

To promote niche tourism products, like medical tourism, the ministry will have a series of roadshows in Dubai in October this year, adventure tourism roadshows in Australia and New Zealand. The UN Development Programme is helping the tourism ministry to promote rural tourism.