Growth in foreign tourist arrivals, earnings slowest in 10 years

Mumbai: Arrivals of overseas tourists in India and the country’s foreign exchange earnings from them grew at the slowest pace in a decade in 2019, government data showed.

Tourism industry experts and airline executives attributed the slowdown to multiple factors, including street protests over the new citizenship law and elevated levels of pollution in northern India, including Delhi. Several countries had issued travel advisories to their citizens over both issues.