Foreign vacationer footfall in Odisha drops by 77%, reveals MoT report
3 min readExpress News Service
BHUBANESWAR: From a ten.8 per cent (laptop) progress within the 12 months 2019, overseas vacationer arrivals in Odisha have plunged by 77 laptop now. The India Tourism Statistics-2022 launched by the Ministry of Tourism not too long ago said that Odisha’s home vacationer arrivals in 2020 and 2021 dropped by 19.04 per cent (laptop) and overseas vacationer arrivals within the two years by 77.7 laptop.
According to the report, when the State was reeling beneath the Covid-19 pandemic, 46 lakh home vacationers got here to Odisha whereas the quantity was 10,206 in case of overseas vacationers. This quantity diminished to 37 lakh in home tourism and a pair of,269 so far as overseas tourism is anxious in 2021. Given these numbers, the Ministry has positioned Odisha within the 18th rank in home tourism and twentieth rank in overseas tourism amongst top-20 states in each the classes.
During the pre-Covid interval, a minimum of 1 crore home travellers and 1 lakh worldwide guests used to reach in Odisha.The report additionally identified the shortage of sufficient star class lodges within the State. There are a complete of twenty-two star lodges with 1,124 rooms.
This aside, not like the previous years, Sun Temple at Konark didn’t determine among the many top-5 Central monuments drawing the utmost home guests. The solely World Heritage Site of Odisha slipped to rank-7 on the subject of home arrivals in 2021-22. It bought 6.72 lakh home vacationers and 314 overseas vacationers within the 12 months.
Although, there was a progress in vacationer footfalls (26.7 laptop home and 121.1 laptop overseas) at Konark if in comparison with 2020-21 when it noticed 5.3 lakh home vacationers and simply 142 worldwide guests. Among the opposite ASI-protected monuments/websites, the Ratnagiri hills noticed a drop of vacationer footfalls at 20.9 laptop between 2020 and 2022.
Officials within the Tourism division stated a number of steps are being taken by the State authorities to deliver the trade again to the pre-Covid degree. Be it the secure tourism media campaigns or dropping costs of eco retreats to attract extra individuals. They stated extra individuals participated within the eco retreats this 12 months in January attributable to low costs.
ODISHA TOURISM IN NUMBERS
46 lakh home vacationers, 10,206 overseas vacationers in 2020
37 lakh home vacationers, 2,269 overseas arrivals in 2021
Pre-Covid: Odisha noticed a minimum of 1 crore home travellers and 1 lakh worldwide guests
BHUBANESWAR: From a ten.8 per cent (laptop) progress within the 12 months 2019, overseas vacationer arrivals in Odisha have plunged by 77 laptop now. The India Tourism Statistics-2022 launched by the Ministry of Tourism not too long ago said that Odisha’s home vacationer arrivals in 2020 and 2021 dropped by 19.04 per cent (laptop) and overseas vacationer arrivals within the two years by 77.7 laptop.
According to the report, when the State was reeling beneath the Covid-19 pandemic, 46 lakh home vacationers got here to Odisha whereas the quantity was 10,206 in case of overseas vacationers. This quantity diminished to 37 lakh in home tourism and a pair of,269 so far as overseas tourism is anxious in 2021. Given these numbers, the Ministry has positioned Odisha within the 18th rank in home tourism and twentieth rank in overseas tourism amongst top-20 states in each the classes.
During the pre-Covid interval, a minimum of 1 crore home travellers and 1 lakh worldwide guests used to reach in Odisha.The report additionally identified the shortage of sufficient star class lodges within the State. There are a complete of twenty-two star lodges with 1,124 rooms.
This aside, not like the previous years, Sun Temple at Konark didn’t determine among the many top-5 Central monuments drawing the utmost home guests. The solely World Heritage Site of Odisha slipped to rank-7 on the subject of home arrivals in 2021-22. It bought 6.72 lakh home vacationers and 314 overseas vacationers within the 12 months.
Although, there was a progress in vacationer footfalls (26.7 laptop home and 121.1 laptop overseas) at Konark if in comparison with 2020-21 when it noticed 5.3 lakh home vacationers and simply 142 worldwide guests. Among the opposite ASI-protected monuments/websites, the Ratnagiri hills noticed a drop of vacationer footfalls at 20.9 laptop between 2020 and 2022.
Officials within the Tourism division stated a number of steps are being taken by the State authorities to deliver the trade again to the pre-Covid degree. Be it the secure tourism media campaigns or dropping costs of eco retreats to attract extra individuals. They stated extra individuals participated within the eco retreats this 12 months in January attributable to low costs.
ODISHA TOURISM IN NUMBERS
46 lakh home vacationers, 10,206 overseas vacationers in 2020
37 lakh home vacationers, 2,269 overseas arrivals in 2021
Pre-Covid: Odisha noticed a minimum of 1 crore home travellers and 1 lakh worldwide guests
