Tourist arrivals into India dip by around 75 percentage due to Covid-19
Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel said that while in 2019, the number of foreign tourist arrivals was 10.93 million, foreign tourist arrivals stood at 2.68 million last year
03 Feb 2021
| By Traveltechie Bureau
| New Delhi
Less than three million foreign tourists visited India in 2020, a dip of around 75 per cent as compared to the previous year, due to travel restrictions imposed to control the coronavirus pandemic, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday.
Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel said that while in 2019, the number of foreign tourist arrivals was 10.93 million, the number stood at 10.56 million in 2018.
It was in 2017 that foreign tourist arrivals crossed the 10 million-mark.
