India sees four-fold increase in foreign tourist arrivals in 2022 after pandemic

Friday, February 10, 2023

Nearly 69 lakh foreign tourists visited India in 2022, indicating a four-fold increase in the number of arrivals after two years of negative growth during COVID-19 pandemic, Union Culture and Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy said on Wednesday. He made the remarks during the Tourism Working Group (TWG) meeting organised at the Tent City in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch as part of India’s G20 presidency.

The increase in tourist inflow indicates that “our efforts for achieving resilient growth in tourism are progressing in the right direction,” the minister said.

More than 100 delegates from India and other participating countries are attending the first TWG meeting.

The Tourism Minister said a ‘National Tourism Mission’ is also being formulated to ensure the digitalisation of the tourism sector in mission mode.

“As the first step, the ministry of tourism has set up a national integrated database of the hospitality industry. This is a technology driven system to facilitate digitalisation and promote ease of doing business for the hospitality and tourism sector,” he said.

This is the second G20 event in the state after the ‘Business 20 Inception’ programme held in Gandhinagar last month.

During the last eight years, the country has built extensive tourism infrastructure to improve the tourism experience, he said. The central government has drafted a new tourism policy 2023, which provides a “paradigm shift in reimagining our tourism sector in India,” Reddy informed the delegates from other countries.

To attract global and domestic investors and expertise, the ministry will organise the first Global Tourism Investment Summit in April 2023 in New Delhi, Reddy said.

“Also, we are going to organise a Tourism Expo to provide a platform to the industry and to facilitate interaction between buyers and sellers and for sharing of knowledge.

“The Ministry will also organise a global conference on MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) tourism in May and an event on Adventure Tourism in June,” said Reddy.

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