With a focus on medical and wellness tourism, India has witnessed steady growth in the number of visitors passing through its borders.
Earlier this year the World Travel and Tourism Council released its latest ranking of the world’s largest travel and tourism economies in terms of GDP.
Unsurprisingly, India enjoyed an impressive position in the index, named in seventh place with travel and tourism revenues of $208.9bn – 9.6 per cent of the country’s GDP in 2016.
Equally impressive were other statistics to come out of the report. India’s travel and tourism sector was reported to have supported 40.3 million jobs last year, putting it in second place in the world in terms of total employment generated. The sector accounts for 9.3 per cent of the country’s total jobs.
Growing by 8.5 per cent in 2016, with a further 6.7 per cent growth forecast for 2017, the industry is driven by domestic travel, which accounted for a huge 88 per cent of its contribution to GDP. But don’t let that fool you into thinking visitor numbers are low.
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