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Tourist arrivals in India up 4.5%,
most come from US
NEW DELHI: Foreign tourist arrivals to
India grew by about 4.5% from 6.30 million in 2011 to 6.57 million
in 2012. While this is a sharp drop from the about 9% growth that
was seen in 2011 as compared to 2010, it is still twice the world
average according to latest data from the Bureau of Immigration.
Incidentally, the US continued as the top source country, reaching 1
million tourists in 2012. In comparison, tourists from the UK, Sri
Lanka and Malaysia came down in 2012.
The top 10 source markets remained the same. The US and the UK were
followed by Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Canada, Germany, France, Japan,
Australia and Malaysia.
The number of tourists from the US in 2012 was 1.03 million, up from
0.98 million in 2011 while visitors from Bangladesh increased from
0.46 million to 0.48 million. Travelers from the UK decreased
marginally from 0.79 million to 0.78 million as did those from Sri
Lanka, dropping from 0.30 million to 0.29 million in 2012. Malaysia
ranked at 10 from last year's eighth position and saw a drop from
0.20 million tourists to 0.19 million.
Tourists from Canada remained about the same at 0.25 million while
tourists from Germany increased from 0.24 million to 0.25 million.
France registered an increase with 0.24 million tourists in 2012
while Japan saw 0.22 million tourists from 0.19 million.
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