Arrivals into South Asia surge in April: PATA
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The Pacific Asia Travel Association ‘s figures for international visitor arrivals into Asia/Pacific destinations for April 2011 show a year-on-year increase of 6.8%, generating an additional 1.8-million arrivals. PATA said this result was partly affected by a comparison with the lower numeric base of April 2010, during which the volcanic ash crisis hampered air travel but also by the continuing strength of arrivals from South Asia and Southeast Asia. These factors offset recent weakness in the Japan outbound market and declines in arrivals from the Middle East, it said. The April result means that for the first four months of 2011, international visitor arrivals to the region grew by 5.4% year-on-year adding more than 5.5-million arrivals to the collective inbound count.Arrivals to South Asia surged by 24%, with many destinations in the sub-region reporting double-digit growth – Sri Lanka (+67%), Nepal (+34%), Maldives (+32%) and India (+18%). These robust results were due mainly to a strong rebound in arrivals from Europe and North America and the continued strength in the Asian and Middle East source markets.”PATA also revealed that intra-regional flows within Asia are still the main driving force as they expanded at double-digit growth rates for the first four months of the year. Increases in arrivals from the Pacific and Europe, especially France and the Russian Federation, also continued to support tourism growth in the Asia/Pacific region.
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