170,000 TOURISTS ARRIVED ON E-TV DURING JAN –AUG 2015
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India welcomed a total of 1,69,976 foreign tourist arriving on e-Tourist Visa during January – August 2015 as compared to 17,120 during January-August, 2014 registering a growth of 892.9 per cent. The comparison in itself is wrong as it was visa-on-arrival in 2014.
At present, e-Tourist Visa facility is available for citizens of 113 countries (including 36 countries for which the facility was extended on 15th August, 2015) arriving at 16 Airports in India (includes 7 airports added from 15th August, 2015).
And during August alone, 22,286 tourists arrived as compared to 2,705 last year.
Of the total number of tourist arrivals, the percentage share of US was 25.93 percent, Germany (10.00 percent), UAE (8.92 percent), France (8.76 percent) and Australia (7.20 percent).
The percentage share of these tourists arriving at New Delhi was 42.67 percent, Mumbai (23.40 percent) and Bengaluru (10.37 percent).