NEWS| 53 lakh tourists visited India in 2008

India's tourism sector has grown by 6 per cent with 5.3 million arrivals in 2008, despite the global slowdown hitting the tourism industry worldwide.

In 2007, 50.8 lakh tourists had thronged India. "While the global average of growth was about 2 per cent, Indian tourism sector grew to 53 lakh arrivals in 2008," Tourism Joint Secretary Leena Nandan told reporters on the sidelines of a FICCI conference in New Delhi. This has helped India get Rs 50,730 crore worth of foreign exchange in 2008 compared with Rs 44,260 crore in 2007, up about 14 per cent, she added.

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