Tourist arrivals in India trail global trend, but forex earnings from tourism are up: Crisil

New Delhi [India], September 25 (ANI): The post-pandemic recovery in tourist arrivals in India is lagging the global trend. In the first half of 2024, foreign tourist arrivals into India stood at 4.78 million, about 90 per cent of that in the first half of pre-pandemic 2019, as per a Crisil report.

Research firm Crisil cited a couple of factors that are at play behind these weak tourist arrivals.

It asserted that reduced