According to a PTI report, as per data prepared recently by Ministry of Tourism (MoT), the US remained on the number one position as source market of Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India in 2009. While the US was closely followed by the UK, neighbouring country Bangladesh occupied a distant third position among the top 15 source countries from where maximum number of tourists came to India last year.
Nepal also entered the top 15 league as 87,487 visitors from the country visited India during the slowdown period in 2009. Last year, out of the total 51, 08,579 foreigners who visited the country, 8, 03,021 tourists were from the US. The number of Americans (8, 04,933) among foreign tourists was also the maximum in 2008. The US was followed by the UK with 7, 48,765 visitors who came to India in 2009.
India received 4, 58,063 tourists from Bangladesh followed by Sri Lanka (2, 40,836), Canada (2, 21,448) and France (1, 95,307). There were 96,997 visitors from China. |