India’s tourism industry has seen a strong start to the year, with international visitor arrivals increasing almost 7% in January 2016.
According to data released this week by India’s Ministry of Tourism, the country welcomed a total of 844,000 overseas visitors in the first month of the year, up 6.8% from the 791,000 it received in January 2015.
The US was India’s largest source market in the month, accounting for 15.3% of total arrivals, followed by Bangladesh (12.0%), the UK (11.2%), Canada (4.9%) and Australia (4.0%). Russia, Germany, France, Sri Lanka and China completed the top 10.
Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport accounted for 28.4% of inbound visitors, followed by Mumbai Airport (19.6%), Chennai Airport (7.9%), the Haridaspur land border crossing, which connects India with Bangladesh (6.6%), and Bengaluru Airport (5.7%).
India earned tourism revenues of INR136.69 billion (approx. US$2.03bn) in January 2016, up 13.0% year-on-year.
Last year, India welcomed a total of 8.02 million international visitors, up 4.4% compared with 2014.
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