From: usenet on 10 Aug 2010 09:48 Foreign tourist arrivals in India: Americans no 1 UNP July 6, 2010 Indraprasth aka New Delhi - The US remained on top as the source country of foreign tourist arrivals in India in 2009. While the US was closely followed by the UK, the neighbouring country Bangladesh occupied a distant third position among top 15 source countries from where the maximum number of tourists came to India last year. Nepal also entered the top 15 league as 87,487 visitors from the Himalyan nation visited India during the slowdown period in 2009, according to the data prepared by the Tourism Ministry. In 2009, out of 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 Shri Lanka (2,40,836), Canada (2,21,448) and France (1,95,307). There were 96,997 visitors from China. Others in the top 15 source countries are Germany (1,93,557), Australia (1,48,846), Malayasia (1,34,340) and Japan (1,24,219). The tourist sector witnessed a bad year all over the world in 2009 and the foreign tourist arrivals (FTA) in India during 2009 were 5.11 million as compared to 5.28 million in 2008, registering a fall of 3.3 per cent. The share of top 15 countries was almost same (72.9 per cent) in 2009 as compared to 72.6 per cent in 2008. However, there was growth in FTAs in some regions including Africa (17 per cent), Central and South America (9.6 per cent) and South East Asia (4.7 per cent). More at: http://www.unp.co.in/f46/foreign-tourist-arrivals-in-india-americans-no-1-a-89590/ Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. The contents of this post may not have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely not be read, considered or answered if it does not contain your full legal name, current e-mail and postal addresses, and live-voice telephone number. o Posted for information and discussion. Views expressed by others are not necessarily those of the poster who may or may not have read the article. FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted material the use of which may or may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This material is being made available in efforts to advance the understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democratic, scientific, social, and cultural, etc., issues. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research, comment, discussion and educational purposes by subscribing to USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml If you wish to use copyrighted material from this article for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Since newsgroup posts are being removed by forgery by one or more net terrorists, this post may be reposted several times.
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