Bangladesh 2nd highest source of tourists in India
Bangladesh was the second highest source of tourists in India last year.
The number of tourists from Bangladesh rose to 942,562 in 2014 from 524,923 and 487,397 in the previous two years.
According to the Indian tourism ministry statistics, 12.27 percent of total foreign tourists who visited India last year were Bangladeshis.
In 2013, the number of foreign tourist arrivals (FTAs) in India from Bangladesh was the third highest after the US and the UK.
The US sent the highest number of tourists to India in 2014.
The top 15 countries -- US, Bangladesh, UK, Sri Lanka, Russia, Canada, Malaysia, France, Australia, Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, Nepal and Thailand -- sent 5,526,363 tourists to India, which is 71.97 percent of total FTAs last year.
Meanwhile, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pankaj Saran recently disclosed that some 1.2 million people of the two countries crossed through the India's Petrapole and Bangladesh's Benapole land ports last year.
The envoy said India was now issuing multiple-entry visas with a validity of one to five years to Bangladeshi businesspeople as they had been facing problems related to visa for long.
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