The Taj Mahal, a UNESCO global history site, changed into many of the 10 maximum famous centrally-covered ticketed monuments for home site visitors in 2021-22, in line with a brand new document launched with the aid of using the Union Ministry of Tourism.
While the Mughal-technology mausoleum ranked first, the Red Fort and the Qutub Minar — each UNESCO-acknowledged webweb sites in Delhi — have been the second one and 1/3 maximum visited webweb sites, respectively, for the period.
The over 280-web page document titled ‘India Tourism Statistics 2022’ changed into launched on Tuesday with the aid of using Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on World Tourism Day at an occasion here.
The document stated because of regulations associated with COVID-19, “the range of overseas vacationer arrivals (FTAs) in India at some point of 2021 reduced to 1.fifty two million in comparison to 2.seventy four million in 2020, registering a poor increase of 44.5%”.
Mamallapuram monuments draws maximum foreigners
Sharing statistics approximately the footfall at numerous webweb sites below the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the document stated the Taj Mahal changed into the maximum famous centrally-covered ticketed monument for home site visitors in 2021-22, whilst the Group of Monuments at Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu changed into the maximum visited centrally-covered ticketed monument for overseas site visitors at some point of the identical period.
According to statistics shared with the aid of using the document, the Taj Mahal witnessed 3.29 million site visitors or 12.sixty five% of the full footfall in 2021-22 for home site visitors, observed with the aid of using Red Fort (1.32 million) and Qutub Minar (1.15 million).
As in line with overseas site visitors, the Group of Monuments in Mamallapuram noticed 0.14 million, observed with the aid of using the Taj Mahal (0.038 million) and the Tiger-headed Rock reduce and different monuments, Saluvankuppam, (0.1/2 million), the document stated, quoting ASI statistics.
In 2021-22, the full range of home site visitors stood at 2,60,46,891, whilst the corresponding discern in 2020-21 changed into 1,31,53,076, marking a 98% on-yr increase
The overall range of overseas site visitors for 2021-22 changed into 3,18,673, declining 23.four% on yr from four,15,859 in 2020-21, in line with the statistics.
There are 3,693 history webweb sites in India covered with the aid of using the ASI. Many of those are UNECSO global history webweb sites which includes the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, Qutub Minar and the Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi and the ruins of the historical Nalanda college in Bihar.
Two years ‘very tough’ because of pandemic
In 2020, ASI webweb sites have been close for over 4 months because of COVID-19 and reopened in July with protection protocols in place.
In his address, the Vice-President stated the ultimate years have been “very tough” due the pandemic and the tourism region changed into closely impacted. But, in retrospect, it is easy to say that India is aware of the manner and the u . s . is “out of the hard period”, he stated.
He additionally supplied the National Tourism Awards 2018-19 at some point of the occasion at Vigyan Bhawan. The annual award rite happened after a -yr hole because of the Covid outbreak in India in early 2020.
India’s rating withinside the worldwide Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI) changed into 54th in 2021, the ‘India Tourism Statistics 2022’ document stated.
It additionally stated whilst FTAs skilled a “poor increase rate” in 2021, non-resident Indians (NRIs) and worldwide vacationer arrivals (ITAs) skilled “superb increase”. Arrivals of NRIs expanded fifty two.6% from 2020 to 2021.
In 2021, the pinnacle 15 supply markets for FTAs in India have been the U. S., Bangladesh, the U. K., Canada, Nepal, Afghanistan, Australia, Germany, Portugal, France, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Russia, Iraq, and the Netherlands. In 2021, the pinnacle 15 international locations accounted for about 80.9% of overall FTAs in India, the document stated.
Tourism keeps to play an critical position as a forex earner for the u . s ., it stated.
In 2021, forex earnings (FEE) from tourism have been USD 8.797 billion in opposition to USD 6.959 billion in 2020, registering a increase of 26.four in line with cent, the document stated.
In 2021, tourism grew step by step on a worldwide scale regardless of COVID-19 prohibition, it stated.
India acquired 677.sixty three million home vacationer visits in 2021, an boom of 11.05% from 610.22 million in 2020, the document stated.
The states with the maximum home travelers journeying are Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh with 140.sixty five million and 86.12 million, respectively. Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu had the best numbers of overseas vacationer visits, with 1.26 million and 1.23 million, respectively, the document stated.