New Delhi, Aug 4 - India and Singapore Tuesday signed a joint action plan which, officials said, would help both countries attract more tourists.

According to the plan, tourists visiting Singapore will be offered an option to include a four-five day trip to India in their itinerary, thus adding variety to their holiday.

Lawrence Leong Yue Kheong of the Singapore tourism board pointed out that there is an emergence of new trends amongst tourists like preference for short halts, short vacations and more value for money travel. He said that if both the countries came together, the needs of the tourists could be met.

'India has a wide range of tourism while we have a big flow of tourists. For instance, last year Singapore received 10 million tourists. What we noticed is that most of our tourists don't want to stay in Singapore all the time and go elsewhere too.

'Therefore if we create a menu of options and give them a proposition of a four-five day getaway to India, it will attract them. For instance there is a clear interest towards the Buddhist circuit tourism in India in South East Asia,' Kheong said.

'But it's not just tourists who come to Singapore we are talking about.