FN ISI Export Format VR 1.0 PT J TI A study into the ways of increasing popularity of Berne as a tourist destination amongst population in India AF Gohar, Sundus AU Gohar, S AB International tourism has turned into a multi-billion business, however its potential is far from being fully utilised. Tourism offers substantial benefits for destinations from financial perspective and benefits to tourists include better work-life balance and increasing level of cross-cultural awareness. This thesis attempts to research ways of attracting more tourists from India to Berne. This attempt is realised via finding about unique aspects of consumer behaviour in India’s tourism industry, identifying factors that impact the numbers of Indian tourists who visit Berne and determining barriers for people in India to visit Berne for tourism purposes. Various aspects of the topic of tourism has been already addressed by a numbers of authors, but the level of attractiveness of Berne as a tourism destination for tourists from India was not analysed up to date, therefore this research eliminates this gap in the literature. Questionnaire form of survey on Survey Monkey platform to be answered by sample group members in India is selected as the most appropriate primary data collection method for this research. ER