{"id":113342,"date":"2024-08-13T07:44:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/foreign-tourist-arrivals-reach-41-lakh-from-january-to-may-marking-a-9-increase\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T07:44:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:44:04","slug":"foreign-tourist-arrivals-reach-41-lakh-from-january-to-may-marking-a-9-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/13\/foreign-tourist-arrivals-reach-41-lakh-from-january-to-may-marking-a-9-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign tourist arrivals reach 41 lakh from January to May, marking a 9% increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-112488013,imgsize-54738.cms?resize=1280,720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Foreign tourist arrivals reach 41 lakh from January to May, marking a 9% increase\" title=\"Foreign tourist arrivals reach 41 lakh from January to May, marking a 9% increase\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"12\">From January to May of 2024, India saw 40.7 lakh <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/foreign-tourists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foreign tourists<\/a> &#8211; a rise from 37.3 lakh during the same period of last year, representing a 9.1 percent increase, reported TOI. <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/foreign-exchange-earnings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreign exchange earnings<\/a> during this timeframe also increased to Rs 1.1 lakh crore, as compared to Rs 88,441 crore of last year, reflecting a growth of nearly 22.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1-->Tourism Minister <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/gajendra-singh-shekhawat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gajendra Singh Shekhawat<\/a> reported that in May this year, foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) were 6 lakh, up from 5.9 lakh in May 2023, with a 0.3 percent increase. Additionally, Foreign exchange earnings (FEEs) for May totaled Rs 17,762 crore, as compared to Rs 17,206 crore in May 2023, which incidates a 3.2 percent rise, according to the TOI report.<\/p>\n<p>This information was provided by the government in response to a written question in the Lok Sabha during the monsoon session. Moreover, the government also shared a study that evaluated the pandemic&#8217;s impact on the tourism sector and the recovery measures that were implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Shekhawat emphasized that these trends signify a positive impact on <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/economic-growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic growth<\/a> and the development of the tourism sector. &#8220;The consistent increase in FTAs and FEEs demonstrates a strong and expanding tourism industry,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The minister also provided data for the last three years: in 2021, foreign tourist arrivals were 10.5 lakh, which increased to 85.9 lakh in 2022, and provisional figures for 2023 show over 1.9 crore foreign visitors.<\/p>\n<p>He outlined several government initiatives to boost the tourism and hospitality sector, including a loan scheme to support tour operators, travel agents, and tourist transport operators, as well as the &#8216;Dekho Apna Desh&#8217; campaign to encourage domestic travel.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/foreign-tourist-arrivals-reach-41-lakh-from-january-to-may-marking-a-9-increase\/articleshow\/112488013.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From January to May of 2024, India saw 40.7 lakh foreign tourists &#8211; a rise from 37.3 lakh during the same period of last year, representing a 9.1 percent increase, reported TOI. Foreign exchange earnings during this timeframe also increased to Rs 1.1 lakh crore, as compared to Rs 88,441 crore of last year, reflecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-112488013,imgsize-54738.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[40348,92935,19145,33,92934,92933,85296,3631,3452,5957,29559,4591,18908],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113344,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113342\/revisions\/113344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}