Bangladesh tops the chart in tourist arrival in India, beating the US & UK

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Data published by the Ministry of Tourism to parliament confirms that the top three countries whose tourists arrived in India last year are Bangladesh, the United States and the United Kingdom.

The statistics provided by the Ministry also emphasizes the consistent rise in foreign tourist arrivals in overall along with the earnings of foreign exchange over the years of 2016, 2017 and 2018. From Bangladesh, in 2016, 13, 80,409 tourists arrived. In 2017, the numbers witnessed a major rise as they rose to 21, 56,557. In 2018, it increased to 22, 56,675 tourists coming to India. A sharp contrast was witnessed in the tourism trends from Pakistan. There, the numbers dropped from 1, 04,720 in 2016 to 44,266 in 2017 and a dismal 41,659 in 2018.

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In 2016, the arrivals were steady from the US with 12, 96,939 tourists from India. In 2017, the number increased minimally with an addition of 100,000 tourists. Last year, another 100,000 tourists entered the country.

The UK maintained a constant flow of tourists towards India with about 900,000 visiting in the year 2016-17. In 2018, the numbers increased to 10,29,757.

In 2018, Tamil Nadu witnessed maximum visits by international tourists among individual states, these were over 6,000,000. Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh were behind with over 5,000,000 and 3.7 million visits. Delhi, in the fourth place, saw 2.740,502 tourist visits. Rajasthan in the last place saw around 1.7 million tourists visit the state.

The fee collected in US dollars per million foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) varies for the three years in focus. In 2016, 8.80 FTAs generated 22,923 billion in fees. In 2017, 10.04 FTAs equaled to 27,310 billion dollars in fees. The year 2018 witnessed an all-time increase with 10.56 FTAs coinciding with 28,586 billion fees.

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