usa becomes top tourist market for india

Friday, September 30, 2005

An analysis of tourist arrival in 2004 has shown that USA has become largest tourist market for India surpassing the UK, the leader so far. Now, USA has 15.5% share in our total arrival followed by UK 14.8%. France and Canada have almost same percentage of share i.e. 4%. Following is the arrivals from top 10 international markets during 2004:

Country
No. of arrivals
% share

U.S.A.
520531
15.5

U.K.
499997
14.8

Sri Lanka
129408
3.8

France
133445
4.0

Canada
134902
4.0

Germany
102112
3.0

Japan
98446
2.9

Malaysia
83963
2.5

Australia
80315
2.4

Italy
66197
2.0

Others
1518664
45.1

Total
3367980
100.0



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