A notification has been issued by the State Government, stating that tourism has been declared as industry for land use purpose.Haryana Principal Secretary, Industries and Commerce Department, Devender Singh on Monday said that with this, all tourism projects or activities relating to amusement or recreation or theme parks, adventure tourism projects, heritage hotel with the exception of standalone activities like hotels, tourist resorts, eat streets or outdoor dining areas or promenades or food courts or restaurants and commercial components within recreational and commercial activities would be classified as land use under industry. He said that these provisions would be applicable to mega projects only involving an investment of Rs 100 crore or above or employing more than 500 persons. These would also be applicable with prospective effect to all the new as well as expansion projects i.e. expansion proposals involving an investment of Rs 50 crore and above, he added.