Acche Din! Over 8.78 lakh tourists arrived in India in November 2017

New Delhi, December 12: Tourism in India has been getting a good response due to several effective steps were taken by the government. However, as the tourism is flourishing, the country's economy is also getting a massive hike. Notably, the Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTA) have registered a comprehensive growth of 14.4% in October 2017 in the country. The number of FTAs in November 2017 was 10.05 lakh as compared to FTAs of 8.78 lakh in November 2016 and 8.16 lakh in November 2015. 

Ministry of Tourism compiles monthly estimates of Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) and FTAs on e-Tourist Visa on the basis of Nationality-wise, Port-wise data received from Bureau of Immigration (BOI).

Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs)

· The number of FTAs in November 2017 was 10.05 lakh as compared to FTAs of 8.78 lakh in November 2016 and 8.16 lakh in November 2015.

· The growth rate in FTAs in November 2017 over November 2016 was 14.4%, compared to 7.6% in November 2016 over November 2015.

· FTAs during the period January- November 2017 were 90.01 lakh with a growth of 15.6% over same period of the previous year, compared to FTAs of 77.83 lakh with a growth of 9.4% in January- November 2016 over January- November 2015.

· The percentage share of Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India during November 2017 among the top 15 source countries was highest from Bangladesh (16.77%) followed by USA (14.77%), UK (9.93%), Russian Fed. (4.41%), Canada (4.39%), Australia (3.96%), Malaysia (3.50%), Germany (2.90%), France (2.51%),Sri Lanka (2.32%), China (2.26%), Singapore (2.04%), Japan (2.03%), Thailand (1.87%), and Rep. of Korea (1.31%).

· The percentage share of Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India during November 2017 among the top 15 ports was highest at Delhi Airport (29.76%) followed by Mumbai Airport (17.20%), Haridaspur Land Check Post (8.40%), Chennai Airport (5.78%), Bengaluru Airport (5.44%), Dabolim (Goa) Airport, (5.37%), Kolkata Airport (4.62%), Hyderabad Airport (3.02%), Cochin Airport (2.88%), Ahmadabad Airport (2.46%),Gede Rail Land Check Post (1.91%),Sonauli Land Check Post (1.88%),Trichy Airport (1.46%), Ghojadanga Land Check Post (1.29%) and Trivandrum Airport (1.28%).

Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) on e-Tourist Visa

· During the month of November 2017, a total of 2.14 lakh foreign tourists arrived on e-Tourist Visa as compared to 1.37 lakh during the month of November 2016 registering a growth of 56.2%.

· During January- November 2017, a total of 14.57 lakh foreign tourists arrived on e-Tourist Visa as compared to 9.17 lakh during January- November 2016, registering a growth of 58.8%.

· The percentage share of top 15 source countries availing e- Tourist Visa facilities during November 2017 was as follows:

UK (17.1%), USA (11.6%), Russian Federation (6.6%), France (5.7%), Germany (4.8%), China (4.8%), Australia (4.5%), Canada (4.3%), Korea (Rep. of) (2.6%), Thailand (2.4%), Italy (2.4%), Singapore (2.1%), Oman (1.8%),Spain (1.8%) and Netherlands (1.5%).

The percentage share of top 15 ports in foreign tourist arrivals on e-Tourist Visa during November 2017 was as follows:-

New Delhi Airport (44.5%), Mumbai Airport (18.7%), Dabolim (Goa) Airport (10.1%), Chennai Airport (5.8%), Kochi Airport (5.4%), Kolkata Airport (3.6%), Hyderabad Airport (2.9%), Trivandrum Airport (2.5%), Amritsar Airport (1.3%), Ahmadabad Airport (1.2%), Gaya Airport (1.1%), Jaipur Airport (0.8%), Tirchy Airport (0.5%), Lucknow Airport (0.5%) and Calicut Airport (0.3%).