Tamil Nadu tops the list as the quintessential foreign tourist hot spot and party destination

3 days ago | Published by : Avinash Nandakumar

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New Delhi,July 22:The famed author of the classic high-fantasy works,’The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ one mused about travel as ‘ Not all those who wander are lost ‘. Humans have forever been on the lookout for the perfect holiday spot and vacation. As popular demand or belief goes neither Goa, nor Kerala or even Jammu and Kashmir is the choice of popular tourist destination in India for foreign travelers.

India’s Ministry of Tourism, Tamil Nadu contributed 20 percent of the total foreign visits to India in 2015.

Despite the tragic floods in Chennai the state remains popular in 2015.

India was destination to 23 million foreign tourists, as compared to 22 million in 2014 and registered a growth of 4.4 percent.

The most frequented states (number of visits in millions) were Tamil Nadu (4.68), Maharashtra (4.41), Uttar Pradesh (3.1), Delhi (2.38), West Bengal (1.49), Rajasthan (1.48), Kerala (0.98), Bihar (0.92), Karnataka (0.64) and Goa (0.54) and these have been the consistently top ranked states in the country in terms of tourism.

Maharashtra contributed 18.9 percent of the visits, Uttar Pradesh contributed 13.3 percent and Delhi contributed 10.2 percent of the total visits.

The top 10 states contributed about 88.4 percent to the total number of foreign tourist visits in the country during 2015.

North eastern states like Jharkhand ( 72.6 percent popularity )and Andhra Pradesh(70.8 percent) have emerged as top choice with a perceptible rise in the number of foreign visitors.

Compared to 2014, the tourism in the Jammu and Kashmir state went down by 32 percent with only 58,568 foreign tourists visiting the state due to the conflict going on.

Other states showing decline are Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan and Sikkim.

India has the highest number of foreign visitors belonged to Bangladesh followed by the United States, Malaysia and United Kingdom in 2015.

India is a popular destination with tourists from countries like Sri Lanka, Canada, Germany,China, Japan, Australian and France.

Tourists from Bangladesh to India in 2015 were 1,133,879 showing an increase of 133 percent in the last four years which is the highest.