10 stunning photos of India's most popular tourist states
The Ministry of Tourism released its annual data of domestic and foreign tourist arrivals. The numbers that are compiled by the Market Research Division of the Ministry of Tourism threw light on the trends in domestic and foreign tourism in India.
The top ten states contributed 88.4 per cent of the total number of foreign tourists arriving in India in 2015. According to the data, 2015 saw the arrival of 23.3 million foreign tourists. There has been a growth of 4.4 per cent in the number of foreign tourist arrivals from 2014.
However the real stars were the domestic tourists who showed a growth of 11.63 per cent – from 1,282 million in 2014 to 1,432 in 2015. So which were the top ten superstar states in India for domestic tourists? Keep clicking to find out!