International visitor arrivals to Indian increased sharply in July 2016.
According to the latest data from the country’s Ministry of Tourism, a total of 736,000 overseas travellers entered India last month, up 17.1% compared to the 628,000 visitors welcomed in July 2015. India’s monthly international tourism receipts surged 19.5% year-on-year to INR143.19 billion (approx. US$2.13bn).
Bangladesh accounted for largest proportion of these visitors (17.3%), followed by the US (16.5%) and UK (11.7%). Malaysia (3.5%), France (3.1%), Sri Lanka (2.9%), Canada (2.7%), China (2.3%), Germany (2.3%) and Japan (2.2%) completed the top 10 source markets.
Between them, Delhi and Mumbai airports handled 43% of the total arriving visitors, while a further 10% entered at the Haridaspur land border checkpoint which connects India with Bangladesh.
For the first seven months of the year, India has now attracted a total of 4.92 million international visitors and INR873.84bn in receipts, marking year-on-year growth of 10.0% and 15.0% respectively.
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