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Foreign tourist arrivals notched up a 6.8% growth with 8.44 lakh arrivals in January 2016 as compared to 7.91 lakh during the same month last year.
India is upbeat with senior tourism officials estimating a 10% growth in 2016. The arrivals in January are a significant improvement from the total growth of 4.5% in 2015.
Speaking to TOI Union tourism secretary Vinod Zutshi said, "We estimate that foreign tourist arrivals will increase by 10% and domestic tourist growth will go up by 15% this year. There are series of initiatives taken by the government including online visa and other visa reforms whose impact will be felt now."
Foreign exchange earnings (FEEs) from tourism have also shown a healthy increase of 13% from Rs 12,100 crore in January 2015 to Rs 13,669 crore this year.
Germany's share was 3.27%, while that of France 2.98%, Sri Lanka 2.97%, China 2.74% followed by Malaysia 2.59%, Japan 2.38%, Korea 1.82%, Nepal 1.76% and Afghanistan at 1.62%.
The percentage share of foreign tourist arrivals among the top 15 ports was highest at the Delhi Airport (28.38%) followed by Mumbai Airport (19.59%), Chennai Airport (7.92%), Haridaspur Land check post (6.58%), Bengaluru Airport (5.72%) and Goa Airport (5.68%).
Officials said that these provisions were being considered by the inter-ministerial committee and some measures were likely to be introduced soon.
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