{"id":16867,"date":"2016-10-18T09:42:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=16867"},"modified":"2016-10-18T09:42:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:42:57","slug":"growth-foreign-tourists-arrival-e-tourist-visa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/growth-foreign-tourists-arrival-e-tourist-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth in Foreign Tourists Arrival on E-Tourist Visa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Which of the following country occupies top slot amongst country availing E-Tourist Visa facility during September 2016 ?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) USA<br \/>\n(b) China<br \/>\n(c) UK<br \/>\n(d) France<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (c)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>A total of 68,809 foreign tourists arrived in September 2016 on e-Tourist Visa as compared to 31,729 during the month of September 2015.<\/li>\n<li>This results in growth of 116.9%.<\/li>\n<li>The facility of e-Tourist Visa has been made available by the Government of India to the citizens of 150 countries, arriving at 16 International Airports in India<\/li>\n<li>During January- September 2016, a total of 6,75,302 tourist arrived on e-Tourist Visa as compared to 2,01,705 during January-September 2015, registering a growth of 234.8%.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage shares of top 10 source countries availing e-Tourist Visa facilities during September, 2016 were as follows:<\/li>\n<li>UK (15.5%), USA (12.4%), China (9.0%), Australia (6.0%), Germany (4.8%), France (4.3%), Spain (3.6%), Canada (3.1%), UAE (2.6%) and Malaysia (2.6%).<\/li>\n<li>The percentage shares of top 10 ports in tourist arrivals on e-Tourist Visa during September, 2016 were as follows:-<\/li>\n<li>New Delhi Airport (51.71%), Mumbai Airport (21.06%), Bengaluru Airport (6.44%), Chennai Airport (6.27%), Kochi Airport (3.50%), Hyderabad Airport (2.45%), Kolkata Airport (2.34%),Trivandrum Airport (1.35%) , Amritsar Airport (1.18%) and Dabolim (Goa) Airport (1.11%) .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151629\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=151629<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/116-9-growth-in-foreign-tourists-arrival-on-e-tourist-visa\/articleshow\/54852180.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/116-9-growth-in-foreign-tourists-arrival-on-e-tourist-visa\/articleshow\/54852180.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following country occupies top slot amongst country availing E-Tourist Visa facility during September 2016 ? (a) USA (b) China (c) UK (d) France Ans: (c) Related facts: A total of 68,809 foreign tourists arrived in September 2016 on e-Tourist Visa as compared to 31,729 during the month of September 2015. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[2338],"class_list":["post-16867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enew","tag-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}