Garden tourism

Subject: Economy

Context: Delhi Tourism is organising first biggest public event organised in the city post pandemic.

Concept:

This year the theme was to lay out gardens on the lines of Mughal Garden in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Garden tourism is a type of niche tourism involving visits or travel to botanical gardens and places which are significant in the history of gardening.
Garden tourists often travel individually in countries with which they are familiar but often prefer to join organized garden tours in countries where they might experience difficulties with language, travel or finding accommodation in the vicinity of the garden.
Taj Mahal in Agra is also famous world-wide for garden tourism.
The list of famous gardens that attract tourists includes: Sissinghurst Castle Garden and Stourhead in England, Giverny and Versailles and other castle gardens such as the castle of Villandry in France, Keukenhof in the Netherlands, Villa d’Este and Villa Lante in Italy, Alhambra in Spain, Longwood Gardens and Filoli in the United States and Taj Mahal in India.