The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions saw the foreign tourist arrivals in India dip by 44.5% in 2021. While in 2020, 2.74 million foreign tourists had visited India, in 2021, the number was 1.52 million.
According to the India Tourism Statistics 2022, released in New Delhi on Tuesday by Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar, the arrival of NRIs, however, increased by 52.6% in 2021 compared to 2020.
The number of foreign tourist arrivals during 2019 was 10.93 million, according to a written reply given by the Tourism Minister in the Lok Sabha.
