International Tourist’s Arrivals to India |
Country/year |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007* |
2008 |
2009** |
2011 |
USA |
329,147 |
348,182 |
410,803 |
526,120 |
611,165 |
696,739 |
762,303 |
827,866 |
1,000,000 |
Estimated 10,000,000 total foreign visitors |
Canada |
88,600 |
93,598 |
107,671 |
135,884 |
157,643 |
176,567 |
200,077 |
223,587 |
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UK |
405,472 |
387,846 |
430,917 |
555,907 |
651,803 |
734,240 |
760,719 |
787,197 |
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summary |
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The trend graph shows an exponential growth of US visitors to India, so from the graph and other studies shows that by 2011 there can be more 1.4 million US tourists and expats and nearly 400,000 Canadian tourists and expats will be traveling to India. |
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Studies Shows that around 20,000 to 30,000 expats are believed to be working in India. Source: www.littleindia.com |
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From the below articles it can assumed that due to the economic downturn in US, a lot of companies are asking US residents to work in India |
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Therefore it can be concluded that expats and tourist traveling to India both work related and pleasure would be more than 1.4 million people in the next few years. |
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