Where are all the visitors?

Shanghai today has more hotel rooms than all of India combined. It used to be said, a few years ago, that Bangkok had more rooms than all of India combined. Perhaps India has moved up in the world a bit. In any case, what a couple of melancholy statistics. Here are some more statistics. While tourist arrivals in India continue to grow (last year was about 8%) and so do revenues from tourism, India hosted only 5.5 million tourists in 2010 and earned a fairly modest $14 billion from them. This accounted for less than 1% of international tourism and less than 2% of global tourism earnings!

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