India earned $27 billion from foreign tourists |
India earned an income of USD 27 billion from Foreign Tourist Arrivals in the year 2017, India`s Tourism Minister Alphons Kannanthanam said at Kochi. Stating that tourism sector was doing “extremely well”, he said in 2017 alone, there was an increase of 15.2 per cent in the foreign tourist arrivals to the country. And the foreign exchange earnings went up by 20.2 per cent. So the income from tourism from foreign tourists` arrival alone last year has been 27 billion dollars and if we convert to rupee terms it would come to approximately Rs 1,75,000 crore. Kannanthanam said the tourism sector is contributing 6.88 per cent to the country`s total GDP, besides 12.36 per cent of the total employment in terms of jobs. Responding to a query on tourist arrivals from Israel, he referred to Israeli Prime Minister`s India visit and said both the nations are now having a close relationship. So India is hoping that much large number of tourists will come to India in future. He also said Israel is one of the favourite tourist destinations for Indians and very large number of people were going there.
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