The number of foreigners visiting Jharkhand has increased almost 60 times in the past two decades, according to the Union tourism ministry which said that while only 3,111 foreign travelers visited the state in 2000 their numbers were 1.76 lakh in 2019.
Officials of the tourism department said that the number of foreign tourists coming to Jharkhand had increased gradually every year since 2000. As per the latest Indian Tourism Statistics released by the ministry, as many as 1,70,987 foreign travelers visited Jharkhand in 2017 and the number increased to 1,75,801 in year 2018. In 2019, as many as 1,76,043 foreign tourists visited Jharkhand.
“The number of foreign tourists visiting Jharkhand has certainly increased, but we want the number to grow further,” said tourism director A Dodde. “If we look at the tourism map of India, then we can see that most of the popular tourist destinations attract a lot of foreign tourists. Foreign tourists also help popularise a spot,” he added.