Tourism
The tourism industry, as part of the service sector, is an important source of income for many countries. It is an activity essential to the life of nations because of its direct effects on the social, cultural, educational, and economic sectors of national societies, and on their international relations.
Tourism brings large amounts of income into a local economy in the form of payment for goods and services needed by tourists and as an invisible export of goods and services. It also generates opportunities for employment in the service sector of the economy associated with tourism. The hospitality industries which benefit from tourism include transportation services (such as airlines, cruise ships, trains and taxicabs); lodging (including hotels, hostels, homestays, resorts and renting out rooms); and entertainment venues (such as amusement parks, restaurants, casinos, shopping malls, music venues, and theatres). This is in addition to goods bought by tourists, including souvenirs.
The tourism industry, as part of the service sector, is an important source of income for many countries. It is an activity essential to the life of nations because of its direct effects on the social, cultural, educational, and economic sectors of national societies, and on their international relations.
Tourism brings large amounts of income into a local economy in the form of payment for goods and services needed by tourists and as an invisible export of goods and services. It also generates opportunities for employment in the service sector of the economy associated with tourism. The hospitality industries which benefit from tourism include transportation services (such as airlines, cruise ships, trains and taxicabs); lodging (including hotels, hostels, homestays, resorts and renting out rooms); and entertainment venues (such as amusement parks, restaurants, casinos, shopping malls, music venues, and theatres). This is in addition to goods bought by tourists, including souvenirs.
SUBJECT Variables
TOURIST ARRIVALS
- India attracted 1.53 million foreign tourists in 2021, a 44.4% drop over 2020.
- 5.48 million non-resident Indians (NRIs) visited India in 2021, in comparison to 6.98 million in 2019. The growth rate of NRI visitors to India moved up from 1.7% in 2019 to 52.6% in 2021.
FOREIGN TOURIST PROFILE
- Foreign tourists between 35-44 years comprised the largest age-group visiting India in 2021 - 21% of the total FTAs.
- Only 8.4% of FTAs in 2021 comprised of people between 15-24 years.
- The percentage of females in the total FTAs has remained between 40-42% since 2014
Comprising 80% of all Tourist Arrivals
- 28% of tourists arriving in India in 2021 were from the USA and 15.6% were from Bangladesh.
- American and British nationals made up 39% of the tourists while all other nationalities constituted the remaining 61% of tourists in 2021.
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