Foreign tourist arrivals up 1.4% in December

Ministry of Tourism compiles monthly estimates of ForeignTourist Arrivals (FTAs) and Foreign Exchange Earnings (FEE) from tourism on thebasis of data received from major airports. Following are the importanthighlights regarding FTAs and FEE from tourism in India for the year 2010.
Performance oftourism sector in 2010 as compared to 2009 was much better as may be seen from details given below.
• FTAs during the Month of December 2010 was 6.55 lakh ascompared toFTAs of 6.46 lakh in December 2009 and 5.34 lakh in December 2008.
• There has been a growth of 1.4 % in December 2010 overDecember 2009 as compared to a growth of 21.0% registered in December 2009 overDecember 2008. The decrease in growth rate in December, 2010 as compared toprevious month of 2010 was mainly due to flight disturbances in Europe and other countries during December, 2010.
• FTAs in India during 2010 were 5.58 million with a growthrate of 9.3% as compared to the FTAs of 5.11 mn and growth rate of (-) 3.3%during 2009.
• The 9.3% growth rate in FTAs for 2010 over 2009 for Indiais much better than UNWTO’s projected growth rate of 5% to 6% for the worldduring the same period.
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