Foreign Tourists In India

India received 6.19 million foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) during 2022 as compared to 1.52 million during the same period of 2021

The government hopes a hundred per cent recovery in foreign tourist arrivals by December-end

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Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday suggested training tourist guides and designated police personnel in multiple foreign languages and developing a multilingual app to make tourists visiting India feel at ease. In his address at the opening session of a day-long national conference on tourist police, attended by top officers of various states and Union Territories, he asserted that efforts should be made so that not a single crime happened against any tourist. "Many foreign tourists, especially those in the age bracket of 50s and 60s, wish to speak in their own language. So it is important to be multilingual as per the needs of the tourists and our policy should factor in that aspect," Birla said. As a result, if guides and tourist police personnel can be multilingual or can be taught elementary phrases in multiple foreign languages, a tourist can be better facilitated and they will also feel more at ease during interactions, he said. "Similarly, an app can be developed in ...

Govt spells out two-pronged strategy to improve numbers; but industry warns of low interest in India

The Covid-19 pandemic, which began in China's Wuhan, spread to India and other parts of the world in 2020, prompting the government to suspend international flights in March that year.

India reduced e-visa fee, opened new Himalayan peaks for foreign tourists

MHA is likely to relax six-decade-long Restricted Area Permit for some areas for foreign tourists, except those from Pakistan and China