90 lakh foreign tourists visited India in 2017, and other travel highlights from the year

The destinations across different parts of India offer as much variety to travellers as the numerous cultures of this country does. May be that is the reason why it has always attracted travellers from different parts of the country and the world as well. These facts have been reassured by the strong figures India’s overall tourism industry has registered over the entire year of 2017.
Among all the achievements, the biggest one is India’s improved rank in the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI). In the 2017 edition of this ranking, India held the 40th position as compared to the 52nd position in 2015 and 65th in 2013. This clearly shows a major improvement in the country’s tourism potential over the last few years.

Talking about how much the country is loved as a destination by travellers from other parts of the world, the Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) of 2017 displayed marked improvements. Between the months of January and November in 2017, as many as 90.01 lakh foreign travellers visited India, which is a straight 15.6 percent growth over the figures of 2016 in the same period.

During the same period of 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 percent.

When it comes to the domestic travellers, figures from 2017 reveal that the number of domestic tourist visits to the different states and union territories was 1613.6 million in 2016 as compared to 1432.0 million in 2015, thus showing double-digit growth of 12.7% in 2016 over 2015.