{"id":52079,"date":"2014-07-07T08:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T05:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=52079"},"modified":"2014-07-07T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T05:53:27","slug":"19-95-million-foreign-tourists-visited-india-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/19-95-million-foreign-tourists-visited-india-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"19.95 million foreign tourists visited India in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52080\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-52080 \" alt=\"Foreign tourists in India. 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File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>In a good sign for Indian economy, the foreign tourist inflow in India has witnessed steep increase in 2013.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, July 7\/Nationalturk \u2013 19.95 million foreign tourists visited India in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring 2013, 19.95 million foreign tourists visited India in 2013,\u201d an official of Indian tourism ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of foreign tourist visits to different Indian States went up from 18.26 million in 2012 and 19.50 million in 2011,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<p>He said during 2013, number of foreign tourist visits to different Indian states registered a growth of 9.24% over 2012 as compared to a negative growth of 6.3% in 2012 over 2011.<\/p>\n<h2>4.15 mn foreign tourists visited Maharashtra<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cMaharashtra topped the Indian states with 4.16 million foreign tourists visiting the State last year, 3.99 million foreign tourists visited Southern India state of Tamil Nadu, 2.30 million foreign tourists visited Delhi, 2.05 million foreign tourists visited India\u2019s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, 1.44 million foreign tourists visited Rajasthan, 1.25 million foreign tourists visited West Bengal, 0.86 million foreign tourists visited Kerala, 0.77 million foreign tourists visited Bihar, 0.64 million foreign tourists visited Karnataka and 0.49 million foreign tourists visited beach State of Goa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe contribution of top 10 States was about 89.9% to the total number of foreign tourist visits in India during 2013,\u201dthe official said.<\/p>\n<p>Indian government is providing visa on arrival facilities to nationals of at least 11 countries and is mulling to increase this facility to nationals of more countries to ensure more tourists visit the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a good sign for Indian economy, the foreign tourist inflow in India has witnessed steep increase in last few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,68,63,51,1,118,117,14],"tags":[71056,14239,7175,42679,50350,2546,18139,65258,53949,51114,39332,55250,14204,71055,19945,13893,42548,3181],"class_list":["post-52079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-daily","category-economy","category-general","category-hot","category-travel","category-world","tag-beach-state","tag-bihar","tag-delhi","tag-foreign-tourists","tag-goa","tag-india","tag-indian-economy","tag-indian-states","tag-indian-tourism-ministry","tag-karnataka","tag-kerala","tag-maharashtra","tag-rajasthan","tag-southern-india-state","tag-tamil-nadu","tag-uttar-pradesh","tag-visa-on-arrival","tag-west-bengal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}